Bai Lu heard the cries for help but did not move.

Her entire gaze was fixed on the hidden spot on the side of the cliff.

Qin Susu steadied herself in mid-air, tilting her head back, not daring to look down.

Without needing anyone's help, in the next instant, Qin Susu firmly grasped the vine, quickly searched for a rock to use for leverage, pushed off with her toes, and her whole body flew into the air, landing once again beside Qiu Yan.

"Qiu Yan, is it fun to tease people?"

Qiu Yan: "My hand slipped."

She admitted that she had just accidentally slipped her hand.

However, Qin Susu herself is quite capable.

"Your hand slipped?" Qin Susu was a little skeptical. She gritted her teeth and quickly wrapped the extra vines around Qiu Yan's waist to herself.

"What, you're scared already? Aren't you very powerful?" Qiu Yan knew that Qin Susu would not let herself get hurt.

She glanced at the hidden spot again. Could it be that she had just hallucinated?

"Who said I'm scared? I'm just a little afraid of heights," Qin Susu said, looking up.

"Afraid of heights?" Qiu Yan looked up at the cliff top. "Why weren't you afraid just now?"

"You made it look so easy, I thought it was simple." Little did she know, climbing requires certain skills, and she lacked those skills.

This was also Qin Susu's first time descending a cliff like this. She felt that she wouldn't have been afraid if she hadn't been startled by the unstable rocks.

She slowly clung to the cliff face beside her, tightening the vines around her waist. "Qiu Yan, don't let go."

"Who told you to come along? You're asking for trouble." Qiu Yan didn't want more people to know about her search for saltpeter.

To be precise, I don't want people from other countries to know.

She never expected that these two would find their way here.

From not far away came Bai Lu's questioning voice: "What do you need this saltpeter for?"

Forgive her for her limited knowledge, but she truly did not know.

Qin Susu suddenly realized: "Oh, Qiu Yan, so you were collecting saltpeter. But what is saltpeter?"

Bai Lu... there's another one who's not as good as her.

Without hesitation, Qiu Yan said to Bai Lu, "Of course it's for medicinal purposes. Don't forget what I do."

Qin Susu asked, puzzled, "What do you do? What is the use of this saltpeter?"

Bai Lu answered for Qiu Yan: "Pharmaceutical manufacturing."

"Making...medicine?" Sister Bailu, you know so much.

However, she was even more puzzled.

Saltpeter can be used in medicine?

She shook her head. Qiu Yan said yes, so it's possible.

Bai Lu: "You're making a fuss over nothing!"

Qin Susu: "I'm just ignorant. What, you want to lecture me... Qiu Yan, let's go down first. This mountain wall is too high."

After what had just happened, she was somewhat worried about Qiu Yan.

"Second Uncle, you've arrived!" Suddenly, a cry of surprise rang out. Qiu Yan quickly looked down and saw her second uncle and Jiang Liu standing at the bottom of the cliff.

When Qiu Dafu arrived, he didn't bother to greet Elder Mu and the others; his gaze immediately fell on Qiu Yan.

Old Mu had not seen Qiu Dafu for many days, and he never expected to meet him in the mountains.

He followed Qiu Dafu's gaze to Qiu Yan, somewhat puzzled, "When did two more people arrive?"

He had previously advised Qiu Yan against climbing the wall.

However, unable to persuade them, they had no choice but to give up.

Jiang Liu looked up at Qiu Yan, her eyes filled with worry.

Qiu Yan began searching for a stable rock on the cliff and started descending.

"Qiu Yan, slow down..." Qin Susu was forced to jump down the cliff with Qiu Yan.