[GL]Whose Wife Is Always Acting Pitiful? Oh, It Turns Out It’s Mine 108

Chapter 108: Wind Moves as One Wishes

When the four people climbed seventy or eighty zhang higher, the people at the foot of the mountain could no longer see the situation above clearly. Some disciples of the sects whose internal energy was gradually exhausted stayed in place on the cliff wall with difficulty, daring not move. Xue Mu only saw several sect experts suddenly rush up the cliff, their feet as comfortable as stepping on auspicious clouds. Facing this cliff, they walked on it as if it were flat ground. In just a short while, they leaped to a hundred zhang away, grabbing several disciples who couldn’t climb up but dared not go down.

“Look, for experts like these Grandmasters, climbing Huangding Mountain is a piece of cake,” Xue Mu said to Dugu Yuan’an. The Dugu couple had gone up the mountain for quite some time, but the two of them hadn’t gone to the mountain path yet, still watching from below.

“Yes, the Discourse on the Dao Conference is actually held for the younger generation.” Dugu Yuan’an said, “Look, once every fifteen years, many things can happen during this period.”

“Like a year ago, I didn’t know I could be with you,” Xue Mu smiled.

Dugu Yuan’an pursed her lips and smiled for a moment, then said, “You didn’t know, but I had premeditated it long ago.”

“Alright, you had premeditated it long ago.” Xue Mu said, “If you hadn’t premeditated it, I wouldn’t be with you. I wouldn’t see you, and you wouldn’t see me.”

“No,” Dugu Yuan’an said without hesitation, “If I didn’t marry you, I would have snatched you in.”

Xue Mu clicked her tongue. “Belly full of wicked tricks.”

Dugu Yuan’an smiled. “Brain full of you.”

Xue Mu couldn’t help laughing and shouted, “Alright! We won’t watch here anymore, let’s go up the mountain.”

Horses couldn’t go up Huangding Mountain, so Dugu Yuan’an walked up the mountain with double crutches. The chiseled stone path at the foot of the mountain was fairly wide. Due to years of wind and rain, the edges of the stone steps had been worn smooth. Lush pines and cypresses on both sides provided shade, their branches and leaves hanging low. Several large rocks half the height of a person were scattered beside the road, unknown if they had rolled down from the slope. There were also some fine small stones on the stone steps. Xue Mu said, “Yuan’er, if there’s no one, just stride forward.”

Dugu Yuan’an said, “It’s fine, I’m used to this.” Actually, asking her to walk all the time would be tiring. Swinging her body forward with double crutches like this was actually two or three times faster than ordinary people. Xue Mu followed behind to prevent her crutches from hitting stones and falling unsteadily. The two continued upward. The stone path became narrower and narrower, and the slope began to steepen.

After walking for who knows if five hundred stone steps, the two arrived at a flat ground. Walking forward for more than a hundred zhang, they encountered a dangerous stone cliff. The stone steps were almost directly embedded into the nearly vertical mountain body, only allowing one person to pass with difficulty. There was no guardrail beside it, but there was an iron chain. Xue Mu said, “Yuan’er, I’ll carry you up!”

Dugu Yuan’an looked back and saw no one. She smiled beautifully, “Why do you need to carry me? It’s not time yet.” With that, she used her lightness skill, exerted force with both arms, lightly borrowed force on a few stone steps with the double crutches, and leaped to the platform on the mountain body in the blink of an eye, looking down with a beaming smile.

Xue Mu’s blood surged instantly, and she shouted, “Good, Yuan’er, wait for me!” As soon as her voice fell, she grabbed the iron chain, stepped on the stone steps, exerted force, and leaped up more than four zhang. Her palm slapped heavily on the stone steps, and her body continued to soar upward, rolling once in the air and landing steadily in front of Dugu Yuan’an. She said proudly, “See if my lightness skill has improved?”

Dugu Yuan’an smiled. “If I say no improvement, I’m afraid I’ll make you angry.”

Xue Mu said dissatisfiedly, “Why do you insist on making your own wife angry?”

Walking towards the col ahead with double crutches, Dugu Yuan’an said upon hearing this, “Then I won’t make you angry.”

Xue Mu caught up with her. The two went around the col to the back of the slope, walked forward for twenty or thirty zhang, and went up the mountain path. They saw the rock walls on both sides closing inward, forming a natural narrow path. The further they went in, the narrower it became. Cold wind whistled in the narrow path, and fine stone sand suddenly blew towards their faces. Dugu Yuan’an was wearing a sable fur coat. Just as she was about to cover her face, Xue Mu rushed up and said, “Yuan’er, I’ll carry you.”

Dugu Yuan’an didn’t decline, getting directly onto Xue Mu’s back. She covered Xue Mu’s face with a handkerchief, while burying her own head in Xue Mu’s back, revealing a little peripheral vision to look at the ground, reporting the number of stone steps in a low voice. Fortunately, the slope of this narrow path wasn’t high. Xue Mu walked more than eighty stone steps and arrived at a flat ground. But ahead was an even steeper and narrower path. A group of younger men were walking carefully in the narrow path, holding their heads or covering their faces.

However, some people climbed directly up the rock wall, climbed over those people’s heads, and jumped to the front of the narrow path in one breath. Unexpectedly, stepping on the smooth-edged stone steps, their footing was unstable, and they fell directly, smashing the people below into cries of alarm and anger. The two rolled down the narrow path, smashing down three or four more people. Xue Mu almost laughed out loud watching, forcefully held it back, and said gently, “Yuan’er, what should we do?”

Actually, the narrow path the two were in now was far less dangerous than the almost vertical cliff they climbed just now. Dugu Yuan’an said, “Mu’er, didn’t you say you wanted to carry me? Try your lightness skill, see if we can fly up.”

Xue Mu had this intention, but still hesitated, “But there are many people in this narrow path. It’s a bit difficult to fly up. Unless I step on their heads to borrow force, otherwise they are all blocked there. I’m really afraid of dropping you.”

The few men who fell from the narrow path crawled up with difficulty. Just as they were about to continue climbing up, seeing two girls standing there, one of whom had a leg ailment and needed crutches, they couldn’t help feeling surprised, thinking: A good girl with strong will despite disability coming up this dangerous Huangding Mountain.

Presumably, this group of men knew each other, otherwise they would have fought long ago after such a fall. But they just scolded the man who climbed the rock wall recklessly a few times, then came over enthusiastically to ask if Xue Mu and Dugu Yuan’an needed help.

“Little Sister, is your leg injured? Why come to this Huangding Mountain? Too dangerous!”

“Yes, yes, you two sisters came to Huangding Mountain together, is there no one else accompanying you?”

Those men who climbed up from the narrow path shouted loudly, asking the remaining companions to climb up quickly. The man who climbed the rock wall and fell down said to Dugu Yuan’an, “Little Sister, can you get up?”

Dugu Yuan’an smiled slightly and said, “My sister can take me up.” At this moment, she only said Xue Mu was her “sister,” not “wife.” First, she wasn’t sure if these men in front of her were good people. Second, she didn’t want to have too much involvement with these people. Xue Mu also followed up, “I can carry her up. Big Brothers don’t need to worry.”

Those men were even more amazed. “Can you carry your little sister up?”

Xue Mu just smiled slightly, carried Dugu Yuan’an on her back. The cold wind was strong in the narrow path, so she exerted force to use the “Wind Light Art.” One of the mantras in the technique was “Body moves with the wind, feet tread without trace.” She only tapped her toes lightly on the stone steps in the narrow path, using that strong wind to induce her internal breath. Following the mantra “Dive against the wind, momentum like a swimming dragon,” the power of her lightness skill increased greatly.

Although the strong wind flowed from top to bottom, she went against the wind, adhering to the stone steps of the narrow path with soft force to reduce the resistance brought by the wind. Then using Dugu Yuan’an’s two crutches to borrow force, she leaped upward, landing in front of those men.

Those men watched dumbfounded, completely stunned.