Resisting the Wind and Splendor

"Third Aunt!" Chu Yueli called out from the high slope.

Lu Beimo walked behind her, also closely observing the surrounding movements.

"Third Aunt!" Chu Yueli called out again, her voice filled with anxiety and worry.

Lu Beimo wanted to offer some words of comfort, but until he found Huo Qing, any words of comfort would be meaningless.

"Third Aunt..."

"Ah Li, I'm here." Huo Qing's voice came from the foot of the mountain.

Lu Beimo picked Chu Yueli up and, with a few light steps, arrived at the foot of the mountain in the blink of an eye.

"Third Aunt, are you injured?" After landing, Chu Yueli immediately rushed to Huo Qing's side and carefully checked her over her entire body.

My arm is still bleeding, but there are no other injuries.

"It's nothing, I was just accidentally hit by that thief's stone," Huo Qing said with a smile. "However, he didn't gain much benefit from it either."

Huo Qing handed an arrow to Chu Yueli.

It was a broken arrow; the other end was missing. Huo Qing was holding the fletching, which was stained with blood.

"You chased that thief all the way here? Are there any other injuries?" Chu Yueli breathed a sigh of relief and wanted to check Huo Qing's injuries.

“I’m fine, but he’s more seriously injured than me. Ali, we can’t let him go back to report. We have to force him to leave.”

"I understand." Chu Yueli still checked her wound; thankfully, it wasn't deep.

Judging from the broken arrow in Huo Qing's hand, the white-clad man's injuries were not minor.

Third Aunt's archery skills once again broadened Chu Yueli's understanding.

The white-clad man's internal strength was clearly greater than Huo Qing's, yet he was still wounded by the arrow.

"Stop the bleeding first." Chu Yueli took out the wound medicine she carried with her and sprinkled some on Huo Qing's wound, without having time to bandage it.

“I’m good at tracking. My third aunt and I will chase them down. You go back first and rest with the brothers for a while.”

These words were clearly directed at Lu Beimo, but the other party did not react at all.

After Chu Yueli finished applying the medicine to Huo Qing, she looked up and saw Lu Beimo looking at her with a deep and unfathomable gaze.

Well, he's not going to go back first; there's no way he'll agree.

Do you still have the energy?

"You want me to prove it to you?" He held out his hand.

"Never mind, Your Highness, you are naturally strong. If you say you can, then you can." Chu Yueli had no time to pay attention to him. Following the direction Huo Qing had been tracking, she quickly found the bloodstains on the road.

The man in white did indeed escape from here.

This direction...

“He entered the Stone Forest.” Chu Yueli thought for a moment before turning back to look at the two of them: “This person is proficient in the Five Elements Eight Trigrams Formation. He knows that once he goes in, Third Aunt will not be able to follow him in, and he will have enough time to treat his wounds.”

"Judging from this, he probably won't leave the Stone Forest anytime soon." The Stone Forest is very large. The exit here is guarded by their people, and the other exit would take at least an hour to traverse, even for someone with high martial arts skills.

However, he had been shot by an arrow and could not walk at full speed at this moment; exerting his internal energy would cause him to bleed faster.

"He probably won't make it back in time to inform everyone that our people have come out of the Stone Forest." This was Chu Yueli's final conclusion.

She looked at Lu Beimo and said, "Let's go back first, make sure the brothers are well-fed and rested. There's probably something big going to happen tonight, isn't there?"

A smile appeared in Lu Beimo's eyes, and he nodded, saying, "Yes, I'll do whatever Ali says."