Miss Ye's feet were a little large

"Thank you..."

Gu Yi looked at Zhao Chen's corpse, but in the end, that was all he said.

He had wanted to leave him alive. Zhao Chen must have survived this long because he was colluding with the men in black. Perhaps he could have gotten something out of him.

"Miss Ye, you really do attract attention." Lin Yuan frowned.

Last time, he had saved him because someone was harassing him, and this time was no different.

Could you shut up if you have nothing decent to say... Gu Yi thought.

"I still need to find my senior brother. I'll be going now."

Although Lin Yuan had just saved him, the sight of him brought back memories of those seven days and nights of insatiable demands.

Hmph! Zhao Chen was a beast, but you're no better!

Lin Yuan followed Gu Yi. For some reason, even though he knew Ye Yiyi was not Gu Yi, he still could not help wanting to protect her.

Perhaps it was that faint, elusive scent of plants, just like Gu Yi's, or perhaps it was that strikingly similar half of her face.

"Looking for those two... lovers of yours?" Lin Yuan put away his sword and followed him at an unhurried pace, his arms folded across his chest.

His gaze flicked toward Gu Yi's neck. There was a faint bite mark on the side, where his clothes and hair did not cover it.

This was...

He gave Gu Yi a strange look.

But he had clearly tested her with the Chaos Spirit Herb. It couldn't be her!

"That's right~ I'm looking for my two lovers. Senior Brother Xie and Junior Brother Jiang went looking for me, and now I don't even know whether they're alive. I'm worried sick."

Gu Yi rolled his eyes. Lovers, my ass. You bastard, nothing decent ever comes out of your mouth.

Lin Yuan's gaze darkened. "It's so dangerous here. I'll look with you."

"There's no need, Young Master Lin. Mu Yang will be meeting up with me shortly." When there's no danger, you're the greatest danger of all, Lin Yuan.

"It's fine. I'm looking for someone too. Perhaps the person I'm looking for is with the people you're looking for," Lin Yuan continued.

"Then suit yourself." Gu Yi glared fiercely at him and quickened his pace.

When the two reached a certain spot, Lin Yuan suddenly gave a muffled grunt. He clutched his chest. "My spiritual energy... is disappearing."

Gu Yi's eyes lit up. His spiritual energy was disappearing?

It looked like they had arrived!

Gu Yi checked the spiritual energy in his own body. Sure enough, just as Lin Yuan had said, it too was disappearing bit by bit.

"Get out of here first!" Gu Yi said quietly.

Lin Yuan nodded. The two retreated a few steps, leaving the area they had just entered, and their spiritual energy stopped disappearing.

"This is the place!" Gu Yi looked excitedly toward the cliff. "They should be right here!"

Lin Yuan joined Gu Yi at the edge of the cliff. "Are we going down?"

"Yes! They fell down there. I'm going down to save them!" As he spoke, Gu Yi grabbed a nearby vine and gave it a hard tug.

It was quite sturdy. He should be able to climb down it.

Once they reached the edge of the cliff, their spiritual energy would disappear. That meant they had no spiritual energy to use now and could only climb down by hand.

"Hiss..."

Before Gu Yi could start down the vine, the small thorns on it pricked his hand.

Expressionless, Lin Yuan tore two strips of cloth from his clothes. "Be careful!"

Gu Yi took the strips with a long face. If he were not trying to save someone, he would never have wanted to go down.

Just looking down the cliff earlier had made him dizzy. After all, he had fallen from Heaven-Reaching Peak before.

But Xie Wenyun and Jiang Lingzhou had gotten into trouble while looking for him. Whether out of sentiment or reason, he could not simply stand by.

Only after wrapping both hands in the strips of cloth did Gu Yi carefully start sliding down the vine.

Lin Yuan had already started down while Gu Yi was wrapping his hands, and by now, he was nearly at the bottom.

Soon, his feet touched the ground. He examined the traces on the ground: scraps of clothing and footprints. They should still be alive.

Gu Yi carefully climbed down the vine toward the bottom of the cliff. Suddenly, however, the vine came loose. He instantly lost his balance and plummeted through the air.

"Fuck!"

Gu Yi swore, but there was no time to react further.

At that critical moment, Lin Yuan heard Gu Yi's voice. He moved swiftly, stretched out his arms, and caught the falling Gu Yi securely.

Gu Yi was so frightened that his heart nearly leaped out of his chest. Falling off a cliff was something he only needed to experience once... He had never expected it to happen a second time.

He hooked both hands around Lin Yuan's neck and opened his mouth, trembling slightly.

"I told you to be careful!"

This time, before Gu Yi could thank him, Lin Yuan let go.

Caught off guard, Gu Yi was dumped onto the ground by Lin Yuan. "Ow... you bas-"

Feeling Lin Yuan's icy gaze, Gu Yi hurriedly swallowed the word "bastard."

He was so used to cursing him that it had almost slipped out, but he also swallowed the thanks he had originally intended to give.

Lin Yuan brushed off his clothes with some distaste. He disliked touching people, Gu Yi excepted.

Yet the instant he caught Ye Yiyi, her unique scent had left him somewhat restless with desire.

But she wasn't Gu Yi!

No matter how much she resembled him, he couldn't casually treat her like that!

Lin Yuan was deeply vexed that he had felt an inexplicable flutter for someone other than Gu Yi.

It was himself he disdained! How could he have feelings for anyone other than Gu Yi...

He silently told himself there absolutely would not be a next time.

Seeing his look of distaste, Gu Yi inwardly grumbled, Fuck, am I carrying a virus or something? You're this disgusted after holding me for a moment? Who was it that held me and gnawed on me for seven days and nights, going on and on about becoming my Dao Companion?

Hrrk-ptui!

Bastard!

Gu Yi stood and rubbed his sore backside. Fuck, after doing it for days, I was already hurting like hell and walking with my butt clenched, and now he fucking drops me...

The more Gu Yi thought about it, the angrier he became. As he passed Lin Yuan, he deliberately stomped hard on his foot, grinding all the mud from his sole onto the top of Lin Yuan's shoe. "Sorry, little immortal lord. I didn't mean to..."

Hmph, that's what you get for dropping me!

Frowning, Lin Yuan watched Gu Yi, who had already "brushed past" him. His face darkened, but he said nothing.

Gu Yi and Lin Yuan followed the footprints along the bottom of the cliff, searching as they went.

Two people had fallen, yet there was only one set of footprints.

Gu Yi wondered whether one of them was injured.

That made him even more anxious, and his pace inevitably quickened.

"Worried about your senior brother?" Seeing Gu Yi walk faster and faster, Lin Yuan also picked up his pace.

"Mm." Gu Yi had no time to bother with him and gave him a perfunctory reply.

"He should be all right." For some reason, Gu Yi's dismissive attitude irritated Lin Yuan, especially when he heard him worrying about someone else.

"How do you know he's all right?" Gu Yi asked.

Lin Yuan pointed at the footprints on the ground. "The pattern on these soles is the same as yours. They're both the Tianmu Sect's design."

Gu Yi looked down at his own feet. Sure enough, the pattern matched the prints on the ground.

It seemed Xie Wenyun really was all right.

"Your senior brother is fine. The one in trouble is probably that Jiang Lingzhou," Lin Yuan added.

"These prints are much deeper than yours. Your senior brother was probably carrying him on his back. The extra weight would explain it." Before Gu Yi could ask, Lin Yuan explained.

"But..." Looking at Gu Yi's footprints, Lin Yuan asked casually, "Miss Ye, aren't your feet a little larger than an ordinary woman's?"

Gu Yi said, "...I'm a little taller than an ordinary woman too..."

Fuck, was this really the time to worry about the size of my feet?