The actions of Niu Zaizhao and Liu Geyang were completely beyond Abe Kakuichi's expectations. When he reacted, he could only see two black heads floating up and down in the turbulent water, and soon went downstream.

"Baka! Chase after me!"

The two men in gray received the order and jumped in without hesitation. Unfortunately, they were unlucky. One of them bumped into something and screamed, then blood gushed out and was swept downstream by the current. The other one was even worse off. He didn't float after entering the water and may have died directly.

Seeing his two men lose their lives in such an unclear manner, Abe Kaku screamed in anger, but he was on a cliff halfway up the mountain. For the sake of his life and property, he could not act rashly and had to continue walking along the mountain road.

After walking another two hundred meters and turning a nearly right-angled corner, the gray-robed man in the lead suddenly stopped and respectfully called out in Japanese to the people behind him:

"Reporting to Elder Jiaoyi, the road ahead is blocked—!"

"What--!"

They took two quick steps and turned the right-angled bend. They saw that there were indeed signs of a landslide fifty meters ahead, which completely cut off the narrow cliff path. There was at least thirty meters between the two breakpoints, and they definitely couldn't jump over it unless they all knew the skills of walking on duckweed and crossing water, and practicing light-weight martial arts like a drum with cotton on its back.

The road ahead was blocked, so they had to move from the rear to the front and return the same way. They had walked on the cliff for nearly two hours. If they turned back, they would barely reach the starting point before dark, and the entire afternoon would have been wasted.

Abe Kakuichi was now furious with Niu Zaizhao. He had never imagined that someone with such a simple and honest face could actually trick him, Japan's number one Onmyoji! How could he swallow his anger when his fame was ruined by a black kid? Abe Kakuichi secretly prayed that the two little devils didn't fall to their deaths. Once he got over the cliff, he would catch them, skin them, and make them into Shikigami!

After Niu Zaizhao and Liu Geyang entered the water, they were washed downstream by the rushing river. Fortunately, there was a rope connecting them, otherwise they would have been separated.

After an unknown amount of time, the river finally became shallow. Niu Zaizhao struggled desperately to swim, pulling the already battered Liu Geyang ashore. Liu Geyang had been feeling a swollen pain since being hit in the left abdomen by the horn, and he had just hit a few rocks in the water, so breathing felt like it was being cut by a knife.

The two men rested on the shore for a while. Niu Zaizhao untied the rope between them, sat up, determined the direction, and dragged Liu Geyang into the woods. Just after they disappeared, the two bloody gray-clothed corpses floated downstream to the landslide lake further downstream.

To divert attention, Liu Geyang casually asked Niu Zaizhao, "Niu Er, you said there were so many rocks in the water. How did you know you wouldn't fall when you jumped in? Are you good at fortune-telling or something?"

Niu Er laughed and answered innocently, "I, I'm also taking a gamble..."

"Fuck! You're so brave! Tell me the truth!"

Niu Zaizhao wiped the water off his face, pushed aside the weeds that were more than a meter tall, and let Liu Geyang pass first, explaining:

"I often walk along that cliff path, and I often see blue sheep chewing salt on the cliff. Once, a group of blue sheep, in a panic to avoid a golden eagle, jumped off the cliff, and I happened to run into them. I lay on the path and looked down, and saw that some of the blue sheep had fallen to their death, while others had escaped to the shore alive and kicking. I found it strange, so I observed carefully. It turns out that the river below that cliff has a particularly deep spot with no rocks, and all the blue sheep that fell into that section of the river survived. When the river dried up during the dry season, I walked there again and saw a large pit five meters deep and wide in the river, right below the warty camphor tree on the cliff. It must be the water area that keeps the blue sheep alive during the flood season."