Wuyi collected a group of warriors and headed down the slope towards lower town. There were two routes—the stone path, which wound in multiple cutbacks down the face of the ridge, and the gravel path, which went straight down the spine of the ridge and had two sets of stairs. Several portions of the path were walled and covered to protect parties going to the Lower Town but, of course, you couldn't take a horse down the path.
Wuyi's group took the gravel path anyway, their feet wrapped in rags to be as noiseless as possible. Given the enemy's dominance of the plain below them, Wuyi put out scouts to either side of their route – Qingyu Xie and Wuxue Pan were moving carefully down the bare rock.
