"This is too high. Just getting down from here will likely take us an entire morning," Jiang Fan found it hard to accept, seeing such a steep cliff. It looked like an attempted suicide. The sheer drop, almost a right angle, made him wonder how they were supposed to descend.
At this moment, Yao slowly turned his head, looked at Jiang Fan, and then leaped. Yao moved like a mountain goat, bounding between the sheer cliffs. In an instant, he disappeared into a hidden nook. Yao then waved vigorously at Jiang Fan, urging him to come over quickly.
Jiang Fan was stunned. This was not something a human could do. Although Yao was his teammate, he seemed more terrifying than the monsters below. Jiang Fan wasn't unwilling to jump; it was simply too high. "Can't you consider other people's feelings? Your Qinggong is so good, but have you considered that I'm just an ordinary person? Asking me to jump down with you is utterly inhumane!"
Just then, Jiang Fan heard a roar that made him shiver. He immediately pulled himself in, lying flat on the ground, terrified of being seen by the monster. Fortunately, the terrain was complex, and Jiang Fan quickly hid behind a rock. Yao also heard the sound and gestured frantically towards Jiang Fan, urging him to hurry down before they were discovered. Jiang Fan, with no other choice, had to leap down. This was the first time Jiang Fan had ever challenged such a terrifying cliff. He could only grit his teeth and jump.
Jiang Fan weaved left and right between the surrounding rocks, searching for footholds. Finally, he landed in a relatively safe spot. "Phew, I almost lost my life." After successfully landing next to Yao, Yao said nothing, as if it were a perfectly normal event. However, for Jiang Fan, it was quite different. He had expected Yao to praise him, but Yao seemed to treat it as nothing. Seeing Yao jump down again, Jiang Fan finally understood why Yao wasn't offering any praise. Compared to Yao's agile movements, his own were worlds apart. In the end, Jiang Fan could only follow him, slowly leaping down.
"These are not ordinary creatures! This is a primeval world! There are even blue-winged dragons here!" While leaping, Jiang Fan suddenly saw a massive flying object pass overhead. Upon closer inspection, he realized it was a blue-winged dragon, like those depicted in modern textbooks. Yao quickly hid behind a rock, afraid of being spotted by the blue-winged dragon. Blue-winged dragons were the ancestors of eagles, with incredibly sharp eyesight. If they were discovered, both Jiang Fan and Yao would be finished. A single dive from a blue-winged dragon could easily snatch them.
"What should we do now? Are we just going to stay here? With so many blue-winged dragons above, as soon as we venture out, we risk being discovered." Yao was also in a predicament. Although they were hidden and temporarily safe, a single exposed moment could lead to them being discovered by the blue-winged dragons. If caught now, they wouldn't even have a chance to fight these monsters, let alone evade them.
Jiang Fan was also in a difficult situation. If they went out, they would be killed by the blue-winged dragons. If they didn't go out, there was no other way to proceed. Suddenly, Jiang Fan's gaze fell upon a patch of grass. This grass looked similar to the grass on the opposite side. Moreover, the lotus flowers here were huge, large enough to serve as beds for normal people. Jiang Fan immediately grabbed his fire axe, spun with a flourish, and cut down a lotus leaf.
Yao immediately understood his intention. Each holding one side of a lotus leaf, they slowly emerged from the cave, moving at an extremely slow pace. Because the blue-winged dragons were so large, seeing them moving slowly with lotus leaves held above their heads, they merely perceived it as a patch of leaves on the ground. "That's right, keep it like this. We must not let them discover us, or we'll lose our lives here."
Just when they thought they could evade the pursuit of these creatures, Jiang Fan suddenly heard the sound of something with many legs crawling nearby. The sound seemed to be right by his ear, incredibly loud. Jiang Fan muttered to himself, asking the person beside him, "What's going on? This shouldn't be happening. Why are there arthropods here?" At that moment, Jiang Fan slightly turned his head. His gaze fell upon something that made him nearly cry out in shock. The thing before him was too terrifying. Even encountering a ghost wouldn't scare him this much, but what he saw was a giant centipede. Centipedes are highly venomous. Even if Jiang Fan survived the venom, it was uncertain if his body could withstand the attack of its pincers. The centipede's mouth resembled two giant scythes, making a constant grinding sound. Its footsteps made a 'tick-tick' sound on the floor as it moved forward. The dense cluster of legs was almost unbearable for Jiang Fan. Anyone with trypophobia would likely faint on the spot. Fortunately, Jiang Fan quickly pulled the lotus leaf back, shielding them both, and they hid in a crevice between rocks, covered by the leaf.
"What do we do now? We can only try to sneak out, but these centipedes are so enormous. If they catch us, we're dead." While centipedes might not move fast in real life, their speed in the animal world is undeniable.