Before long, an angry curse came from below: "You beast!"
The voice quickly faded away, accompanied by the wind. Soon, the kitten sprang up from below and bared its teeth at Gu Yao and the others. Needless to say, the kitten had just attacked Di Feng and knocked him down. The "beast" he cursed in his mouth was the kitten, which made it unhappy and came back for comfort.
Gu Yao comforted it for a while and then became lively again, wandering around. Chi Changye did not relax his guard, Di Feng was a late-stage Golden Core cultivator, and his survival rate here was much higher than others. He must have his own life-saving methods, but it was good to get rid of him first, so that he wouldn't deliberately make some disgusting things to cause them trouble.
The first day was spent climbing the cliff. The lower they went, the stronger the wind became, and the greater the restriction on their spiritual power. In the end, they relied entirely on their physical strength to climb. And in the space within the cliff, there would also be small tornadoes. They saw with their own eyes a cultivator being swept into a tornado. Fortunately, he had proper defensive measures, and he tied a rope made of steel to his body. He was pulled out by his companions with all their strength, but his robe was torn into strips by the tornado, and his exposed skin was also scarred.
Fortunately, the first day was not without gain. There were some strange plants growing on the cliff wall. The lower they collected, the more valuable the plants were. They picked everything they encountered, and there was also a big handful of plants that the kitten didn't know where it had picked.
They rested on the way, and they felt incredible.
"I didn't expect to feel sore in my body after cultivating. Before, that was all caused by exhaustion of spiritual power and fatigue of consciousness."
"Yeah, the spiritual power in my dantian is still abundant, but I can't use it. It makes my arms sore from climbing."
Chi Changye also found it interesting. He said: "Maybe this will help us temper our bodies. I think there should be some body-refining cultivators staying here." He could still feel a few people in the crowd whose blood was thicker than the others. He thought that those cultivators were either specialized in body-refining or valued physical training.
"That's true. Haha, I hope we didn't suffer this hardship for nothing." Tian Feirong said with a bitter smile.
When they rested, they took out a kind of pill called Yijing Dan that they bought in Heifeng Town. Most of the materials of this pill came from Heifeng Cliff. After taking it, they clearly felt a heat rising up and quickly spreading to every corner of their body. The soreness and fatigue on their body gradually disappeared.
The four of them came here for training, so they simply treated this place as a trial ground. With the kitten guarding them, they boldly messed around on the cliff wall. When they were exhausted, they stopped and took Yijing Dan. The benefits were very obvious. When they encountered a tornado, the wind was much stronger than before, but Chi Changye only used a dagger to stabilize his figure. No matter how strong the wind was, it didn't sweep him away. He also pulled back Gu Yao and the other two.
Compared with the cultivator who was injured by the tornado before, Gu Yao and the other two were much better.
When the second day was about to end, they hardly met any other cultivators. The lower they went, the fewer cultivators could reach, and the stronger the black wind below. No one knew where the black wind came from, and no one could probe the bottom of the Heifeng Cliff.
"Big Brother Ye, let's find a place to rest and explore again tomorrow." Gu Yao's forehead was sweating, and his face was red with exhaustion.
"Um, it's time to rest." Chi Changye didn't forget that there was still an enemy hidden in the dark, so even if he still had some strength, he didn't continue to go down. "I'll find a place."
Sometimes they could find a crack in the cliff wall, which could accommodate a few people. This was the best resting place in Heifeng Cliff. They didn't have to worry about falling down. Chi Changye was looking for such a place. It was not easy to dig it out by himself. The stones here were extremely hard.
The four of them searched, and Gu Yao looked back and suddenly widened his eyes in horror. "Not good, there's a tornado coming from behind, get away!"
The tornado that was brewing was stronger than any one they had encountered before. Just looking at the eye of the storm, they could tell. So Gu Yao urged them urgently. No one doubted Gu Yao's words, and they didn't even look back. As soon as Gu Yao spoke, they immediately retreated in a well-trained manner. They had a rope tied to their bodies that bound the four of them together.
Chi Changye was the fastest, so in no time he was dragging the other three to climb quickly. Those who couldn't keep up with his speed had their skin rubbed by the stones. But no one cared at this moment, because the wind behind them was pulling them hard, trying to drag them into the eye of the storm. The wind was so strong that it even deformed the skin on their hands, let alone their hair.
"Kitten!" Gu Yao shouted in his mind.
"Meow!" The kitten sprang out from nowhere and fought with the storm. The pressure on the four of them eased a bit, but it was not the time to be careless. In the gap that the kitten had fought for, Chi Changye finally saw a crack in the stone. He exerted his strength and rolled all four of them into the crack. The kitten followed them in. The tornado was really fierce. Even it couldn't stand it. It would be injured if it was swept in.
But when it came in, it found that its master and the other three had rolled down. They had accidentally entered a fissure. The depth of the fissure could not be measured by sight. Such fissures were rare in Heifeng Cliff. Whenever one appeared, it would definitely cause a sensation, because the legendary place where the Nascent Soul sat and transformed might appear in such a place.
Gu Yao slammed into an embrace and stopped. The person who held him let out a muffled hum. The impact was obviously not small. And Tian Feirong and Xiao Pangzi bumped into them one after another. Gu Yao also groaned.
They bumped into each other without knowing what was going on. They were still a little confused. The kitten jumped on Gu Yao's head and meowed, telling Gu Yao how hard it was.
"Be quiet, let's see where we are now," Gu Yao grabbed the kitten and asked it to be quiet for a while. He took out a luminous stone and lit up the surroundings. But he soon saw that Chi Changye's face was not very good. "Big Brother Ye, how are you? Are you hurt?"
The light let Gu Yao see clearly. It was a protruding stone pillar behind Chi Changye. He hurried to check his back. Chi Changye struggled to get up with Gu Yao's help. He waved his hand and said, "It's nothing. Maybe some scratches. It's not a big deal."
But he was still insisted by Gu Yao to take a look. Actually, he didn't need to peel off his clothes on purpose, because the robe on his back had already cracked, and mixed with the blood that flowed out, making Gu Yao feel a little uncomfortable. He took out some wound medicine and applied it to him, and let him take a healing pill. He changed into a new robe.
Tian Feirong and Xiao Pangzi helped each other stand together. They looked at each other and finally realized that the relationship between the two in front of them had progressed a lot. Unlike before, they always seemed to be separated by a layer of mist, which made them anxious and angry.
The wound medicine was bought in Heifeng Town. It had a miraculous effect on treating this kind of wound. In a short while, Chi Changye felt his back itch and the scar fell off. "Let's go and see what this place is. You guys be careful."
"Don't worry, Brother Chi. We will be careful." Tian Feirong and Xiao Pangzi said hastily.
Chi Changye still walked in the front, holding a luminous stone in one hand and tightly holding Gu Yao in the other.
The fissure they had accidentally fallen into was more spacious than the cracks they had encountered before. It was either naturally formed or someone with great power had split the mountain in half. Although the spiritual power in their bodies was still bound in their dantian by the environment here, there would be no tornadoes like the outside. So the situation was much better than the outside.
There were many strange plants growing on both sides of the fissure. Some of them had been there for a long time. Obviously, no one had come in to collect them for many years. The four of them stopped from time to time to collect them.
"Wait, there is a black jue flower here. I'll pick it." Gu Yao saw a black flower growing on the stone wall and was delighted. This kind of plant needed a long time to blossom. This black jue flower could refine a kind of pill that was beneficial to the soul. Gu Yao said and took out a jade box and walked over.
As soon as his hand touched the black jue flower, the kitten behind him suddenly let out a shrill scream. Chi Changye quickly rushed over, hugged Gu Yao and rolled away. He looked back and saw that the kitten had caught something in its claws. And before that, they had not noticed it at all. Not to mention Tian Feirong and Xiao Pangzi, Chi Changye was also scared.
Gu Yao felt cold sweat on his back and quickly got up. He saw that the kitten had pinned something down with one claw. That thing was still struggling to escape. "What is this? I didn't even notice it with my divine sense?"
Divine sense and spiritual power were both restricted, but they could still use some, only the range was much smaller. And Gu Yao had a special place in his divine sense. He always kept his divine sense open to pay attention to the surroundings, but he didn't notice the danger just now.
Chi Changye reached out his hand, raised his knife and cut it down. The thing that was twisting and struggling stopped moving, but a blue liquid flowed out from its broken body. Gu Yao saw this and quickly went over to collect the liquid, but he still wasted some. It quickly penetrated into the stone on the ground and couldn't be extracted.
"What is this?" Xiao Pangzi and the others also came over curiously.
"This is… a dragon vine worm? The blue liquid is its blood?" Chi Changye also remembered at this time, but because he was not an alchemist, and because this thing was rare, his reaction was not as fast as Gu Yao's.
"Yes, it is a dragon vine worm and its blood. I didn't expect it to live in such a place. This dragon vine blood can be used to refine a special kind of pill." Gu Yao said with surprise. Although he encountered a big risk, the benefits were great. He quickly called Xu Chen in the space and told him about the dragon vine blood. This was what he saw in the books on the third floor of the Dan Pavilion when he entered the Golden Core stage. Otherwise, he wouldn't recognize it.