From day to night, then again, from night to the early morning, her mind had concentrated to a high degree and her speed had also risen to its extreme.
These made Su Luo somewhat unable to endure. She was tired. In the hazy moonlight, she felt a faint stabbing pain in her head.
Su Luo was suddenly startled awake.
Lying on her stomach on the dead tree, she faintly saw a piece of wood drifting towards her, that had a shadow on top of it.
Even though she couldn’t see it clearly, Su Luo nevertheless recognized that it was Li Aotian.
He was truly like a lingering ghost.
Su Luo secretly cursed in her heart.
What’s to be done? She also couldn’t stay on this dead tree. But as for escaping……She was afraid it also wouldn’t be that easy.
Su Luo raised her eye to survey all around.
The place was slightly similar to the Three Gorges (1), with steep cliffs on both sides, the precipice was like the blade of a knife. It was one gorge after another, forming pools like in the Yantze river, the water was rapid, practically in one breath’s time, it would push her very far.
She saw Li Aotian was just about to catch up to her.
Time was extremely pressing.
Su Luo couldn’t wait to think some more. She tore the lower part of her robe and placed it in a crevice of the dead tree, seeming as if it was there while not being there.
This way, it looked as if she was hidden under a branch.
Up ahead at the bend, in the blind spot from Li Aotian’s line of sight, Su Luo made a leaping jump. With one hand, she grabbed the root of a willow that extended out from a steep, overhanging cliff.
Su Luo’s body was as lithe as a swallow, borrowing the power of the willow branch to swing and jump. Again, in the blink of an eye, her figure had already disappeared.
She had already hidden herself in the branches with thick leaves at the top of an ancient tree.
Here, all around were all sheer cliffs, behind her was Li Aotian chasing to kill her. As long as she showed her face, he would catch sight of her. Therefore, Su Luo obediently stayed in that tree, hiding behind those lush, abundant branches and leaves.
Su Luo curled up her body, letting her physiological functions adjust to operate at its lowest state.
Her heart rhythm, blood circulation, breathing sounds and all her physiological functions, were all, without exception, constrained.
At this moment, her whole body was ice-,cold, stiff, like a snake in hibernation and almost lifeless.
She was gambling.