"Still alive." Huang Xiao regained consciousness.
He rose from the ground and checked his injuries, finding that they had largely healed.
While he had been unconscious, the Imperishable True Qi had continued healing him on its own.
"It seems that lightning didn't do me much harm. What exactly happened?" Huang Xiao murmured.
The scene just now had been truly terrifying.
Lightning had woven a net across the sky and descended straight over him, trapping him within it.
Huang Xiao had thought he was doomed, and his consciousness had slipped into darkness.
He had never expected to still be alive.
He surveyed his surroundings and found that the rain had long since stopped, though the ground around him was still somewhat damp.
He was at the bottom of the cliff, in a valley.
It was not all that dark, however. Sunlight could still reach down here.
"Strange. I'm below the cliff, yet the Patriarch and the others haven't come looking for me?" Huang Xiao frowned.
He did not know how long he had been unconscious, but judging by how his injuries had largely healed, it must have been at least two hours, surely?
That should have been enough time for the Patriarch and the others to come down the mountain, should it not?
He had fallen from the summit, so his location could more or less be determined. There was no reason they could not find him.
Even if they thought he had fallen to his death, the Patriarch and the others would have come looking for his corpse. Alive, they would want to see him; dead, they would want to see his body.
Yet no one had come. It really was rather strange.
"Hmm?" Something suddenly stirred in Huang Xiao's mind.
"A formation?" Huang Xiao immediately looked around, then closed