Chapter 1380 — Not Going to Warn Him
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Though Elder Yu had no wish to carry anyone along, when he thought of the dangers they might yet run into, he grabbed Old Black all the same, and none too willingly.
"Jump!" The instant the two slabs of ground were about to meet, Wei Zhao barked the word and reached out to seize Yu Xiao Ke. Chen Yuxuan and Qiu Lingshan clung to him, one on each side, and the whole party began to plummet.
The bottom of the abyss was all but invisible. By the light falling from above the great hall, even with the preternatural eyesight of cultivators, they could make out only a few hundred meters below them - and still no end to it. One could well imagine how deep this place was.
"Don't clutch me so tight, I can't draw my breath!" Elder Yu was vexed at the way Old Black had fastened itself around his neck. You are no beauty - what do you want with hugging me like that?
"Sorry, I'm a bit frightened..." Old Black said awkwardly. "I'll let go once we're down..."
Elder Yu snorted, but his eyes never left Wei Zhao's side. Yet the deeper they fell, the dimmer the light grew, and before long Elder Yu could no longer make out what was happening over there.
"Male Thief, what is actually down there? Is it dangerous?" Unable to see Wei Zhao at all now, Elder Yu asked, a note of worry in his voice.
Wei Zhao himself could not clearly see what lay beneath them either. At that moment he closed his eyes, withdrew into the space inside his jade pendant, and perceived the world outside through his spiritual sense - and everything opened up at once. Every detail around him stood out with perfect clarity.
It was a square shaft running straight down, its four faces smooth stone walls without so much as a foothold anywhere. Unless you wore shoes with an enormous grip, you might barely cling to the wall; otherwise, even if you did attach yourself for a moment, you would simply fall.
Even with the light before him bright as day, Wei Zhao still could not see what lay underfoot. All that met his eyes was the same bottomless abyss.
"I don't know. You are an Earth-rank expert, yet you fear this and that from morning till night - whatever did you come out here for? Staying home and cultivating would be the safest thing by far."
"Hmph, ignorant boy. My life is worth ten thousand times yours. If you die, then you die - but I am fine porcelain, understand?" Elder Yu reddened at Wei Zhao's words, though he still struggled to defend himself.
"Heh -" Wei Zhao smiled his cutting smile and said nothing more.
Yu Xiao Ke had been picked up by Wei Zhao before, but always in some emergency, and she had been set down again before long; she had never been held this close. Now, pressed against that broad chest of his, breathing in the manly scent of him, she felt her cheeks burn and her heart race.
All her life she had never been so near to any boy. She had never even entertained the least thought of romance - no moonlit trysts, no sweet nothings. From the moment she was old enough to understand, she had devoted herself wholly to the orphanage. As for love, Yu Xiao Ke had never dared to hope. Who would marry such a great burden? Unless their head was cracked.
Families of wealth and standing would not so much as look at a female thief; men with nothing to their name could never keep so large an orphanage afloat. So she had set the matter aside for the time being. She kept herself chaste on the chance that, should the orphanage ever truly need it, she might not have to find a rich boyfriend - that, in her condition, she could still fetch a good price. So long as it could relieve the orphanage's most desperate hour, that would be enough.