"We... we shouldn't have been so stubborn and competitive. Knowing that Heaven Pillar Peak was snowy and the path slippery, that accidents could easily happen, we still... still came to climb this dangerous peak for a few taels of silver, to... win a breath of face!" A clever young girl said.
"And what else?" Xiao Hua pressed relentlessly.
"We... we... we shouldn't have acted on impulse and made a wager with those people..." Several of them gritted their teeth, enduring the cold as they spoke again.
"Alas! Young people!" Xiao Hua sighed. Just as he was about to speak, the young man deepest inside, who had been clutching the rock wall with his hands, his finger joints long since white and blood already seeping from beneath his nails, spoke. "What we deserve to die for most is not thinking of our parents! They must be panicking now. They must have begged the neighbors to search nearby! But they surely never imagined... that we would be so ignorant of life and death as to come climb Heaven Pillar Peak!"
Xiao Hua looked the youth up and down. The youth had his hands wedged into the rock wall and his back to Xiao Hua, so only the side of his delicate features could be seen. Yet though his clothes were somewhat worn, they had been washed spotlessly clean, making him seem somewhat different from the other youths nearby.
"Correct, you are absolutely right!" Xiao Hua nodded. "A person does not live in this world for himself alone. You have family by your side. You are the flesh of your families' hearts. If you do not protect yourselves properly, you are letting your families down! Do not think your parents do not know yet. They have already gathered at the foot of Heaven