Yang Feilong breathed a sigh of relief seeing Li Yufei unharmed, "I'm glad you're okay!"
Li Yufei stared at Yang Feilong blankly and asked softly, "If I had accidentally fallen just now and died, would you have been sad?"
"What nonsense are you talking about? With me here, how could I let you fall into such danger?" Yang Feilong said irritably, then held Li Yufei's small hand and said, "Let's go, don't let go of my hand from now on!"
Seeing her fair little hand held by Yang Feilong's broad palm, her face blushed slightly. This blockhead wasn't that dumb after all!
In fact, even without holding Li Yufei's hand, he could have saved her in time if she were in danger. But he was still worried, what if he was distracted at a moment when Li Yufei was in danger?
The main reason was that climbing this back mountain was too dangerous!
And although Li Yufei was good at climbing, she was still an ordinary person.
Whoosh~~~
Li Yufei stopped talking and climbed the mountain with Yang Feilong. Well, it was mainly Yang Feilong leading her. Climbing a mountain while holding someone was dangerous, of course, that was for ordinary people. For a master like Yang Feilong, climbing was as easy as walking on flat ground.
A sense of security bloomed in Li Yufei's heart. Being with Yang Feilong felt incredibly safe!
Li Yufei looked at Yang Feilong's profile. He was handsome, with a resolute expression. Under the scorching sun, his features were even more chiseled. She was a fan of good looks, and Yang Feilong had attracted her with his exceptional appearance from the first time they met.
Just as many men liked beautiful women, many women also liked handsome men. And handsome men with talent were even more appealing to women!
In Li Yufei's heart, Yang Feilong was almost perfect. The only imperfection was his romantic entanglements; if only he could be devoted to her!
Thinking of this, Li Yufei felt a pang of regret. Why had she been too reserved and not pursued him directly back then? If she had won Yang Feilong over then and stayed with him every day, she wouldn't have let those bothersome admirers get close to him and claim him?
Half an hour later.
Suddenly, Li Yufei's eyes lit up as Yang Feilong pulled her over a high mountain peak.
What greeted their eyes was a canyon.
This canyon was also undeveloped. Within the canyon, there was a small lake, not large but not too small.
"Let's go to the lake!" Li Yufei said with some excitement. "I heard before that you could see a lake after crossing the back mountain. I've never succeeded in crossing the back mountain before, but now I've finally achieved my wish!"
"Okay!" Yang Feilong glanced at Li Yufei dotingly, with a smile on his face, "Let's go down to it."
Another half hour later, they descended the mountain and reached the lakeside.
There were some animals by the lake, but no ferocious beasts, which made Li Yufei sigh with relief. Although she knew Yang Feilong was very strong, she wasn't sure if he could deal with ferocious beasts like lions and tigers!
"Hmm?" Suddenly, Yang Feilong frowned.
"What's wrong?" Li Yufei asked, seeing Yang Feilong's worried expression.
"Something feels a bit off!" Yang Feilong said in a low voice, looking at the lake surface.
"Is something wrong with the lake water?" Li Yufei also looked at the lake surface. The lake was over a kilometer in circumference, truly not small, but she couldn't see anything wrong with it!
"There's a faint smell of blood in this lake water!!" Yang Feilong said seriously.
"A smell of blood? Big fish eat small fish, it's normal to smell blood!" Li Yufei said speechlessly, glancing at Yang Feilong.
Yang Feilong stared at the lake water, about to explain something, when the lake water suddenly surged out, transforming into a sharp sword and attacking Yang Feilong and Li Yufei.
"This..." Li Yufei's eyes narrowed.
Yang Feilong's expression turned cold. He clenched his fist and struck out fiercely.
Boom!
The sword formed from the lake water instantly shattered.
"Get out!" Yang Feilong roared, then threw another punch. It was a earth-shattering punch that landed directly in the lake water, and with a splash, the water exploded.
The wild animals near the lake were startled and fled by the terrifying loud noise.
As the exploded lake water subsided, that part of the lake turned blood red. It was blood, but as the blood flowed with the lake water, it gradually faded.
"Still not coming out? If I punch again, you'll die!" Yang Feilong shouted.
"Don't kill me!" The next moment, a figure shot out from the lake water.
It was a young man, about twenty-three or twenty-four years old. His face was extremely pale, and his body was covered in blood, a result of the shockwave from Yang Feilong's previous punch.
Li Yufei stared blankly, completely unaware that there was a living person hidden in the lake water!
And that he had attacked them earlier!
"Why were you hiding in the lake water to ambush us?" Yang Feilong frowned and looked at the man. "Confess honestly, or don't blame me for being ruthless!"
"I, I was cultivating!" The young man looked at Yang Feilong fearfully and explained, "But I suddenly felt danger approaching, so I stopped cultivating. Then I saw you. Fearing you would discover me, I attacked you. I, I just wanted to scare you away. I didn't intend to kill you!"
Yang Feilong remained noncommittal about the young man's words.
The sword formed from lake water earlier, though not carrying killing intent, was quite powerful. If it weren't for his own strength, an ordinary ancient martial arts practitioner, or even a cultivator in the Xuanwu realm, might not have been able to easily withstand it!
Of course, it was precisely because the other party's attack wasn't aimed at killing them that Yang Feilong didn't kill him!
Instead, he chose to injure him and force him out!
"You were cultivating in the lake water?" Li Yufei looked at the young man with disbelief.
Wouldn't he drown if he cultivated in the lake water?
After all, they had been here for quite some time, and this young man had been submerged the entire time. If Yang Feilong hadn't sensed something was wrong earlier, Li Yufei would never have guessed there was someone hidden in the lake.
"He's an ability user!" Yang Feilong suddenly said.
"Ability user?" Li Yufei was stunned. "You mean someone who has awakened special abilities?"
"Yes!" Yang Feilong nodded. "These kinds of individuals are almost always born with gifts. Most of them awaken their abilities later in life. There are many types of abilities, the most common being metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. And the one before us is a water-element ability user!"
"Can I awaken abilities too?" Li Yufei's eyes lit up as she asked.
"You? Without any special circumstances, it's almost impossible!" Yang Feilong shook his head. It wasn't to discourage Li Yufei, but he didn't know the method for awakening abilities. He had asked his master, and his master wasn't very clear either.