Lu Chen smiled and shook his head. “The spirit wood isn’t mature yet. Even if you cut it down now, you wouldn’t get many spirit stones for it. It would be a waste.”
“Better to let it grow here a while longer.”
Hong Chuan glanced at him in mild surprise, then nodded in agreement.
After resting for a short time, the two of them began cautiously searching for a way out. Having fallen from the cliff, they could now clearly see that the distance back up was more than twenty zhang. The middle section was almost entirely sheer rock wall, offering no footholds at all.
After studying it for a long while, they had no choice but to give up the idea of climbing back the way they came and return to the cave.
Unexpectedly, upon closer inspection, the situation was not as hopeless as it first appear
