The demon started to say something crazy that humans couldn't understand.
Maybe … it wasn't crazy?
The siblings looked at each other. Whether it was Gus, who believed in the path of the iron fist, or Grey, who believed in the power of machines and steam, they both felt that their beliefs were shaken.
For a moment, the boy even wanted to scream and throw the steam ball that the demon was hiding in into the cliff.
But when he saw the super mechanical crossbow that was modified by the demon and had unlimited arrows, he thought about the pursuers that might be following them. He fell silent again.
No matter what the demon's purpose was, it was the only savior for the siblings.
After cleaning up the corpses on the ground, the siblings continued their journey.
Around midnight, they arrived at the Eagle Distress Cliff in the depths of Red Phoenix Mountain.
Two cliffs that were as smooth as mirrors faced each other. A collapsed boulder was stuck in the middle, forming a natural arch bridge that connected the two cliffs.
After hundreds of millions of years of erosion, the arch bridge had become extremely narrow, brittle, and unstable. It was also covered in moss, and it was easy to cross.
If one was careless, they would fall under the arch bridge into a bottomless abyss surrounded by fog.
Even the giant eagles in the mountains wouldn't land here when they were resting. They didn't want to be swept by the wind and smashed into meat paste on the cliffs on both sides. That was how the Eagle Distress Cliff got its name.
This was the boundary between the hunting area and the inaccessible world of ferocious beasts.
Usually, the hunting teams in Red Gold Town would return home after they reached this place.
Only an extremely small number of cultivators with formidable strength, firm will, and disregard life and death would continue forward, and in all likelihood, they would not return.
"Go!"
Grey patted Gus' shoulder.
"Sister, are we really going?" Gus was dumbfounded and stuttered.
"Yes."
Grey answered simply. She saw her brother's fear, so she took out a rope and tied it around her brother's waist, tying the two of them together.
"Sister, what are you doing? If … if I fall, I'll drag you down!" Gus exclaimed.
"Then be careful. Don't fall. Go!" Grey pushed Gus, and the two of them walked onto the arch bridge together.
Gus had heard about the horrors of the Eagle Distress Cliff from the hunters in town.
But when they really walked on the arch bridge, they realized that the hunters' vivid descriptions and even exaggerations were not enough to describe even one-tenth of the terror of Eagle Distress Cliff.
This huge rock between the two cliffs could move.
Although the shaking wasn't too exaggerated, it was just a slight shaking in the cracks of the rocks on both sides. Under the support of the howling wind, it was transmitted to one's feet and spine. It was still as frightening as an earthquake.
The slippery moss would squeak when stepped on and ooze a sticky liquid, which reminded Gus of the rotting corpses of insects.
He had only taken a few steps when his calves began to tremble. He couldn't help but want to look down.
"Don't look. Open your hands and keep your balance. Keep moving forward. We can definitely make it!" Grey shouted from behind.
His sister's cry gave Gus courage.
Ever since he was young, he had worshipped his sister the most and listened to her the most.
One step, two steps, three steps … Gus spread his arms to maintain his balance and breathed heavily to maintain his calm. He imagined that every step he took was like crossing an arch bridge. He had successfully crossed 27 arch bridges!
Then, the ferocious birds came.
They were like the hybrids of vultures and bats. They were bald without any feathers, but they had a pair of wide fleshy wings. They had an ugly head like a mouse's and a bloody mouth with crisscrossed fangs. They were creatures that only appeared in the depths of nightmares.
Perhaps these ferocious birds had suffered great losses in the hands of human hunting teams and had a deep-rooted hatred for human beings.
As soon as they saw Gus and Grey, they screamed and swooped down.
The ferocious birds' screams were like demonic sounds that pierced through Gus' head. Gus felt like his head was going to explode. He panicked and waved his hands like chicken wings. He almost slipped off the arch bridge.
"Watch out!"
At the critical moment, Grey pulled the rope around Gus' waist from behind and helped him regain his balance.
The girl took off her shoes and socks. Her toes were deeply embedded into the arch bridge like eagle claws. She held two super mechanical crossbows in her hands and aimed at the ferocious birds. She fired left and right.
The ferocious birds turned into fireballs and slid past the siblings. In the screams, they turned into fireflies in the abyss of fog.
"Go, go quickly!" Grey urged.
"Ah!" Gus held his head and screamed loudly. He rushed to the other side of the arch bridge.
There were a few times when he almost slipped and fell into the abyss.
But when he thought that his death would affect his sister, Gus still gritted his teeth. For the first time in his life, he mobilized all the muscles and joints in his body and fully displayed the martial arts taught by the Iron Fist School. He pulled himself back from the edge of the cliff again and again.
There were more and more ferocious birds above his head.
Fireballs fell from the sky around Gus one after another.
Some of the ferocious birds even lost control after half of their bodies were blown up by the crossbow bolts. They crashed into the arch bridge, causing the unstable boulders to sway and tremble.
"Ah! Ahhhhh! "
Gus roared desperately to drive away his fear.
He even closed his eyes and rushed forward, ignoring the bumps and slipperiness under his feet.
When he was about to slip again, he risked everything and jumped more than ten meters away. He miraculously landed on the other side of the bridge.
When he looked back, he saw that Grey was still struggling on the arch bridge. The ferocious birds circling in the sky gathered into a mass of dark clouds.
"Go to hell, you bastards!"
Gus roared and pulled out two super mechanical crossbows from his back. The crossbow bolts shot out like fire dragons and exploded the dark clouds in the sky into fireworks.
The burnt ferocious birds fell down with crackling sounds.
The birds whose wings were ignited flew to higher places resentfully. They did not dare to provoke this pair of ferocious siblings anymore.
Grey finally crossed the arch bridge and fell beside Gus. She gasped for breath and looked at the abyss that they had conquered with lingering fear.
"We, we did it!"
The sister punched her brother hard. A relieved smile bloomed on her pale face. "Did you see, Gus? We are here!"
Gus nodded. He felt a joy that he had never experienced before.
As a piece of trash, he had finally done something that not many people in Red Gold Town could do.
Maybe, he was not a piece of trash.
But, he had not awakened himself yet … Where was his true power?
"Sister, where are we going?"
Gus asked. "You seem to have a well-thought-out plan, yet you still insist on crossing the dangerous Eagle Distress Cliff. You must have a destination. Tell me, no matter where it is, I will accompany you."
Grey hesitated for a moment. She looked at the abyss and the arch bridge behind her and finally said, "Although the world is big, we betrayed the Path of the Iron Fist. We have nowhere to run. There is only one place that may shelter us. That is the 'steam army' in the south."
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