Ximen Kankan’s expression darkened, and he said, "You all go ahead. I’ll head back to Duan Rong’s mountain to fetch some beast skin wraps."
Among the three of them, he was the only one who hadn’t found a beast skin wrap.
Duan Rong suddenly smiled and slapped the beast skin wrap in his hand into Ximen Kankan’s hand. "Here, take this one."
Ximen Kankan was slightly taken aback. "What are you doing? If you give it to me, what are you going to use?"
Xiao Yu also looked at Duan Rong with suspicion.
Duan Rong looked at the three of them, smiled brightly, and said, "Let me perform a little show for you."
"Cloud Cliff Crossing!"
After saying this, Duan Rong suddenly leaped off the edge of the cliff like a great bird.
"Ah!"
Xiao Yu’s expression was startled, her whole body turned cold, and her face looked as if she had been greatly frightened.
In mid-air, Duan Rong suddenly tapped his toes on the iron chain hanging high across the valley. With just one touch, the iron chain started to shake violently. But Duan Rong moved like a swallow skimming the water, rising and falling several times, actually crossing over to the opposite cliff.
Xiao Yu’s face was pale, and her heart almost leapt to her throat.
Duan Rong landed steadily on the other side and smiled at the three people on this side.
Xiao Yu, Shen Mizi, and Ximen Kankan were so shocked they couldn’t speak for a long time.
Duan Rong’s lightweight body technique, called the Cloud Cliff Willow Step, had already reached the Great Perfection Realm of the True Qi Realm.
This wasn’t actually the first time Duan Rong had performed this lightweight body technique on the iron chain.
The first time he suddenly felt a surge of interest, stepping across the chain had been that morning three months ago.
At that time, dense snowfall was still fluttering down between heaven and earth.
A layer of white snow had fallen on the iron chain, and the cold within the mountain was bone-chilling. After a winter had passed, a layer of ice had already formed on the iron chain.
Yet at that time, Duan Rong was as light as a swallow, stepping across the chain.
The swaying iron chain shed a coat of silver white, the snow falling like smoke to the bottom of the cliff.
At the time, Duan Rong’s thoughts were flying rapidly, his expression was joyful, but unfortunately, he couldn’t compose poetry.
After struggling for a long time, he couldn’t even come up with a single couplet of doggerel.
Now, it was early spring, and the accumulated snow and thin ice had already melted, but the iron chain, worn smooth by years of friction, was still extremely slippery. Duan Rong crossing the chain like this was no less difficult than it had been in winter.
However, luckily, this section of the iron chain wasn’t too long.
Xiao Yu finally managed to recover herself, looking at Duan Rong’s grinning face on the opposite side, her expression extremely displeased.
Ximen Kankan also stuck out his tongue in fright.
Not to mention Xiao Yu and Shen Mizi, even if he had reached the Second Level of the True Qi Realm, he didn’t dare cross the chain like Duan Rong did.
The iron chain was incredibly slippery and unstable; a single moment of carelessness could mean falling into the abyss, shattering into pieces from such a height.
Xiao Yu, Ximen Kankan, and the others crossed the iron chain, landing not far from Duan Rong.
Xiao Yu untied the beast skin wrap from her waist and threw it onto Duan Rong, angrily saying, "What were you thinking?! One misstep and you’d fall. Then what?"
Shen Mizi saw Xiao Yu was really angry. While gently patting Xiao Yu, she glanced reproachfully at Duan Rong and said, "You almost scared Sister Xiao’s soul out of her! Aren’t you going to apologize quickly?"
Duan Rong chuckled, placing the beast skin wrap into a stone hole beside him, and said, "I didn’t want to make another trip back there to fetch a wrap. There might not be enough time."
"Alright, don’t be mad!"
Looking at Duan Rong’s expression, Xiao Yu couldn’t stay angry, and with Shen Mizi’s comforting presence, her expression gradually improved.
Even though Duan Rong knew he wouldn’t get into any trouble,
he had indeed given Xiao Yu quite a scare, which was why she was so angry.
The group crossed from the mountain top of the Guanglu Institute and through a dense forest to the back of the mountain, and after descending the mountain path for a short while, they saw a signpost at the road’s entrance pointing south.
In fact, by this point, they didn’t need the signpost to show the way at all.
On the winding and rugged mountain road, there were quite a number of silhouettes, and among the shadows of the trees and stone walls, a giant and broken dragon could be seen.
"So there are so many registered disciples!"
These registered disciples were scattered across various corners of the Endless Mountains, and only on this test day could they gather in one place.
Duan Rong and the others had been in these mountains for three years, and although they often saw other registered disciples, everyone was a stranger and rarely greeted each other.
Ximen Kankan and the others could still meet a few people while working in various places,
but Duan Rong remained alone on the mountain with Shang Xiangyu, and apart from Xiao Yu, Ximen Kankan, and Shen Mizi, he hardly knew any other registered disciples.
At this moment, seeing the crowd filling the mountain path, Duan Rong felt a bit dizzy, as if he were in a holiday scenic spot in his previous life, with the mountain road packed with a sea of people...