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"This monkey likes to eat tea as well?" After a while, Baili Ange said while clicking his tongue.

"The monkeys here are special. They like all the things humans like, so in order for people to pass by smoothly, they have to give them something to eat, or else they will pounce on that person's body, pulling and biting. But once they see something good, they just take it and leave." Wen Qi said with interest.

Baili Ange listened to Wen Qi's explanation with a serious face, but in his heart he thought: Wen Qi, why are you talking so much about this monkey? What kind of person are you?

After another incense stick of time, Baili Ange slowly saw the edge of the ancient forest.

The setting sun had gradually moved away from the mountain by the layer of clouds, leaving behind a corner. Through the layer of clouds, a beautiful glow was cast, and with the help of these rays, one could vaguely see their surroundings.

"I've finally left the Ancient Forest!" Baili Ange bent down and passed through the branches of the last tree. He stretched his arms and said happily, "But …"

Baili Ange just came out of the woods and was curious about the road he was going to take, but then he was shocked by the situation in front of him.

"Could it be that my eyes are playing tricks on me?" Why is there no road in front of us? " Baili Ange rubbed his eyes and looked again with his eyes wide open.

"Yes, Sir Wen, it looks like the valley is ahead of us. We are on the cliff now, could it be that we went down the wrong path at night?" Xiaoliu asked Wen Qi cautiously.

Qing Qi didn't say anything. He just leaned against a thick banyan tree on the side of the cliff and waited for Wen Qi's reply.

In the past few years, no one was able to measure the size of the sky ditch. When "Grandmaster Feng Yun" traveled here, he accidentally discovered that there was a flat piece of ground two miles in radius under the cliff, and thus he chose this place as his training ground. Later on, Grandmaster Feng ascended the Dao to become an immortal, and this place became the training ground for his eldest disciple, "Yuanzhen". Afterwards, the friend of the "Yuanzhen" Taoist Master was our friend, President Qingyang, and he built Wind Cloud Academy here and continued to recruit disciples, teaching martial arts and other skills. " Wen Qi slowly said.

Baili Ange was fascinated by what he was hearing, and Qing Er was also fascinated by what she was hearing, because no one had told him before.

"No wonder everyone only knows about the fame of Wind Cloud Academy, but no one knows where it is located. So it's actually hidden here." When Qing Qi was in the training camp, he heard about the matters regarding Wind Cloud Academy. A distant cousin of his, a brother's, child in the camp was studying at the Wind Cloud Academy, but they didn't know where the Wind Cloud Academy was.

"Alright, let's go down now!" Wen Qi said.

"Down? How do we get down? Are we going to jump? " Baili Ange asked with his eyes wide open.

"Of course not, Sister Ange, if you jump, you will fall to your deaths. Come, let me tell you how to jump down. Big Brother Qing Qi, please move away from this tree." Qing Er tugged at the corner of Qing Qi's shirt, hinting him to leave before turning her head to ask Wen Qi, "Martial Uncle, can I take over this time?"

Wen Qi didn't say anything. He nodded to Qing Er and gave his tacit consent.

Qing Qi dodged to the side and, along with Baili Ange and Xiaoliu, looked curiously at Qing Er.

Qing Er walked happily to the big tree and carefully turned her body to the back of the big tree. With some difficulty, she made a gesture of stretching her hands into the tree trunk.

The more Baili Ange saw, the more curious he became. He walked up to take a look and Xiaoliu followed.

It turned out that there was a hollow on the back of this thick tree trunk. Qing Er tiptoed to find a wooden stick with a dried up branch inside.

After standing on tiptoe a few times, the child finally caught the wooden stick. Then, he grinned at Baili Ange and said, "Sister Ange, you guys have to watch carefully!"

Qing Er then pressed the wooden stick down forcefully. In an instant, the sound of the mechanism activating could be heard. It was as if countless devices were working together to activate it.

"Look there!" Qing Er pointed at a wooden platform on the shore and shouted to Baili Ange and the others with a joyous expression.

"What is this? Is it related to the branch you pressed just now? " Baili Ange didn't see anything like it on the cliff just now, but now she blinked her big eyes and squatted down to carefully look at the table.

This platform looked as though it could stand a dozen people. Under the weak light of the sunset, there was actually a "pulley" shaped device under the flat surface. It seemed like the platform was brought up through this "stationary pulley" device.

"Right, that branch is the mechanism of our 'Cloud Stairway'. Oh, right, we call this thing 'Cloud Stairway', as long as you press a button, the 'Cloud Stairway' will be sent up through the wheel that is fixed to the cliff. If you move the mechanism on the 'Cloud Staircase', we can slip to the Wind Cloud Academy. Sister Ange, isn't this interesting?" Qing Er was pleased with herself and felt proud of the unique set of Wind Cloud Academy.

"It's far more than just interesting. It's simply amazing!" Baili Ange felt that the thing that had been made into a "ladder to the clouds" by Qing Er was the same as an elevator in the modern world! Did the ancients already have something like an elevator?

Seeing the surprise on Baili Ange's face, Wen Qi explained, "President Qingyang asked the disciples of the Mo family to build this device, and the structure is hidden on the tree trunk, bottom of the tree, and on the cliff. Normal people wouldn't easily notice the hole in the tree, nor would they guess that there is a smoothly operating transportation device on the cliff, and only the people with Wind Cloud Academy would know about it, so very few outsiders would know the true location of our Wind Cloud Academy."

"Then if we outsiders suddenly visit, wouldn't that mean we know where the Wind Cloud Academy is?" Baili Ange was suddenly shocked by the mysteriousness of the Wind Cloud Academy.

"Are you going to tell others?" A trace of an unfathomable smile hung on Wen Qi's lips. His gaze swept past Baili Ange's body and headed straight for the "Cloud Stair".

Baili Ange looked at Qing Qi and then looked at Xiaoliu. He sent each other a "Let's shut up and be obedient" emoji.

"Come up!" Wen Qi said to them.

Qing Er quickly went up the ladder. Xiaoliu supported Baili Ange up the platform slowly, and finally Liu Tie went up.

"Looking down from this ladder is really scary!" Baili Ange muttered.

"Stand still! We are falling! "

The sky gradually darkened, and endless darkness descended from the cliff.

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