People often say that men and women working together can make light work, and it seems that there really is something to it.
The two of them, one digging and the other scraping, were still smiling despite the numbness in their fingers from the cold, even with gloves on.
Especially Ruoxue, who usually sat in an office high above the rest—how could she have ever done something like this before?
Initially, Ruoxue wanted to chat while working, but Su Chen immediately stopped her, explaining that talking would consume more of their energy and oxygen.
However, being a woman and without any suitable tools on hand, like a shovel, Ruoxue’s scraping was quite slow.
Su Chen dug a segment and then worked with her to move the excavated snow out before continuing to dig upward.
After over half an hour, they had finally managed to dig an upward passage just big enough for one person to pass through.
Then, Su Chen started to dig forward and took about an hour to create a snow cave large enough to accommodate two to three people.
After finishing, Su Chen pulled Ruoxue into the snow cave, where she finally started to feel a lot better.
"Honey, you know so much!"
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Ruoxue said sincerely.
"Of course, you should see whose husband I am!"
Su Chen smiled proudly, then after a moment continued,
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"Honey, you stay here for now. I’m going to see how we can escape."
What Su Chen had done so far was just to make Ruoxue temporarily comfortable; however, they had no food and not much water. Water could be solved by melting ice, but food was a more difficult issue.
Without food, he might manage for a few days and eating some snow might help sustain them a bit longer, but Ruoxue wouldn’t last long. The most urgent problem was how to escape from this fissure that was tens of meters high—and they needed to do it fast!
Getting out of such a high crevice was not impossible for Su Chen; the real challenge was bringing Ruoxue with him, which was not so simple.
Su Chen took a deep breath and then activated all the True Yuan in his body, dashing towards a snow-covered mountain wall. With one step, he shot up about five or six meters!
As his ascent slowed, he immediately found a protruding rock to land on!
He then activated his True Yuan again and leapt from the rock!
Reaching the same height of five or six meters, he began looking for somewhere to land, but found nothing. He then continued using his Cultivation Technique to climb higher, finally spotting a foothold about a meter higher.
After seeing the landing spot, he let his body drop back down to the previous platform.
"It looks like I need to dig out a foothold just above here, so I can reach that higher spot,"
Su Chen thought to himself, knowing that carrying Ruoxue with him meant that jumping five or six meters was nearly his limit.
He then pulled out a dagger and, after clearing the snow from the mountain wall at a height parallel to his neck, slid the dagger into a crack and gently twisted it.
Su Chen’s dagger was not made of ordinary material. With this twist, the nearby rocks and rubble immediately started to fall.
Then, with a downward stroke of his dagger, sparks flew and a deep gash was made in the hard rock!
Su Chen cut a few more times, causing more rocks to tumble down, and after about half an hour, a small, step-like platform had formed.
Su Chen jumped onto the freshly carved platform and continued leaping upwards, reaching the five or six meter height again, this time landing on the spot he had seen before.
Thus, Su Chen kept leaping, inspecting potential footholds above and digging out platforms when the height was too great, thereby reducing the distance.
After two hours of hard work, Su Chen was drenched in sweat, and his True Yuan had significantly depleted, but he was smiling because they were now only about ten meters from the top!
Su Chen had not returned for a long time, which made Ruoxue anxious. Feeling uneasy, she crawled out of the snow cave with a headlamp on, as it was already night, and darkness had enveloped the outside.
She looked around, but there was no sign of Su Chen anywhere, and her heart was suddenly seized with intense panic!
"Husband! Husband!"
Lin Ruoxue yelled urgently. The reason she had remained relatively calm until now was because Su Chen had been by her side.
But when Su Chen suddenly disappeared, she became incredibly frightened!
"Wife, I’m here!"
At that moment, a voice reached Lin Ruoxue’s ears.
However, despite looking around, she still couldn’t see Su Chen:
"Husband, where are you?"
"Over here, wife, I’m over here!"
Finally, Lin Ruoxue pinpointed the direction of the voice and looked up, only to see a cheeky smiling face waving vigorously at her!
Lin Ruoxue immediately covered her mouth in surprise and then called out curiously,
"Husband, how did you get up there?"
"Of course I climbed up."
Su Chen’s voice came down from above:
"Wife, go rest in the snow cave for a bit. I’ll clear off the snow and ice above and then come down to get you!"
Lin Ruoxue heard what Su Chen said, but she didn’t move an inch. How could she be at ease entering the snow cave now!
Su Chen couldn’t attend to her at the moment and continued to leap upwards, his body ascending as if free from gravity.
Seeing this scene, Lin Ruoxue was completely dumbfounded. Was this a man flying through the air?
"Husband, be careful!"
Lin Ruoxue yelled, watching Su Chen seemingly flying in the air, feeling as if her entire heart was in her throat. If he wasn’t careful and fell down, wouldn’t he die from such a fall!
"Don’t worry, wife!"
Su Chen shouted back, standing on one foot and laughing loudly.
Seeing him like that, Lin Ruoxue didn’t even dare to speak with him anymore, deeply afraid that he would fall if he got distracted!
After speaking, Su Chen once again leapt into the air and when he came down again, he was only about three meters away from the fissure!
Fortunately, the last ten meters or so didn’t require digging footholds anymore, otherwise it would have taken much longer.
Even though his dagger cut through iron like mud, excavating this mountain face still took quite some time.
"Okay, wife, wait up, I’m coming down to get you!"
As he came down, Su Chen directly jumped down from ten meters, and within two or three steps, he reached the ground!
"Well, are you stunned?"
Su Chen arrived in front of an already wide-eyed Lin Ruoxue and teased her.
"Husband, was that just now the legendary martial arts?"
Lin Ruoxue asked hesitantly. Her heart was completely overwhelmed by the scene she had just witnessed!
Ten meters—that’s about as high as several floors! Su Chen had just jumped down directly, and what’s more, he landed on such a small protruding rock!
How did he manage to do that?