Chapter 161: Parachute

Chapter 161: Chapter 161: Parachute

"WHOOSH!" "WHOOSH! WHOOSH!"

Thousands of feet up in the air, off the side of a cliff, the wind howled. Their robes whipped about, snapping and billowing wildly.

Ye Xing and Tantai Mengxue held hands, their bodies plummeting toward the bottom of the cliff.

"Hahaha, Mengxue, I’m so damn happy!" Ye Xing was ecstatic. He gripped Tantai Mengxue’s soft hand tightly and threw his head back to laugh. "Hahaha, who says a toad can’t eat swan’s meat? Well, I fucking did it!"

"Pfft!" Tantai Mengxue covered her mouth to stifle a laugh. She shot Ye Xing a playful glare from her beautiful eyes. "What toad? Who talks about themselves like that!"

"Hehe, but it’s true. Mengxue, I’m just so happy, it feels like a dream," Ye Xing said. "How about we go traveling tomorrow? We’ll visit all the famous mountains and great rivers of the Tang Country!"

"Tomorrow? What tomorrow do we have?" Tantai Mengxue’s beautiful eyes dimmed as she said softly, "Ye Xing, you’re so foolish. Why did you have to jump down with me?"

"If I didn’t come with you, I would have lost you forever!" Ye Xing lovingly stroked Tantai Mengxue’s silky hair. "Don’t worry. With your husband here, we’re not going to die!"

"How is that possible? Even an Innate Realm expert would have trouble surviving a fall from a cliff thousands of feet high. Xiao Bai is already heavily injured and in my Qiankun Bag, completely unable to fly. And you don’t have a Flying Demon Beast—"

"CHIRP! CHIRP!"

Two chirps suddenly rang out. The Little Purple Eagle on Ye Xing’s shoulder cried out at Tantai Mengxue, pointing at itself repeatedly with its small, light-purple wings as if to say, ’What about me? What about me!’

"Little Zhi, you little thing, what’s with all the chirping? You’re the size of my palm, how are you going to carry us?" Ye Xing rolled his eyes and said in a serious tone, "Mengxue, hold on tight. I’m about to deploy the parachute."

"Parachute?" Tantai Mengxue’s beautiful eyes filled with confusion.

"Yep. With a parachute, we won’t fall to our deaths," Ye Xing said with a sly grin. He immediately took a parachute from his Qiankun Bag, strapped it to his back, then hit the switch to deploy it.

A parachute is primarily made of flexible fabric. It is a deployable aerodynamic decelerator that uses the principle of air resistance, relying on its movement relative to the air to inflate and open. The modern parachute is an aviation tool that allows a person or object to descend safely from the sky to the ground.

"SWOOSH!"

The parachute blossomed open above them.

The moment the parachute opened, the force and speed of their descent dropped dramatically. They began to drift gently in the sky. The feeling of rapid freefall was gone, replaced by a slow, gentle sway, pushed left and right, back and forth by the high-altitude winds.

"This... this parachute is incredible! Ye Xing, it feels like we’re barely falling anymore." Tantai Mengxue’s beautiful eyes were wide with shock, delight, and curiosity as she stared at the huge, open canopy. She had never seen a parachute before; they simply didn’t exist on the Martial Arts Continent.

With this miraculous parachute, Tantai Mengxue felt that she and Ye Xing might actually be saved.

"Of course! Your husband is a man of many talents!" Ye Xing said, his face a mask of pride. He tilted his head back, nostrils flared, with an air of utter cockiness.

"What ’husband’? You’re so shameless. We’re not even married yet," Tantai Mengxue huffed, her beautiful eyes curving into crescents.

"Then how about we go get married as soon as we land!" Ye Xing said with a wicked laugh. "And then you can ’give me monkeys’!"

"Monkeys?" Tantai Mengxue’s beautiful eyes were filled with confusion.

"Hehe, it means have kids. Lots and lots of—OWWW, that hurts!" Ye Xing’s sentence ended in a series of miserable howls.

Tantai Mengxue’s pretty face was flushed crimson all the way to her earlobes. Her slender, White Jade-like fingers were pinching the soft flesh of Ye Xing’s waist, twisting back and forth.

"Mengxue, my dear wife, it hurts! Stop pinching, please, spare your poor husband!" After Ye Xing’s repeated pleas for mercy, Tantai Mengxue finally released her jade-like fingers.

"Serves you right for talking such nonsense!" Tantai Mengxue said, her beautiful eyes filled with playful reproach.

The wind howled high in the sky. The parachute’s canvas, filled with air, billowed and swayed.

Breathing in the faint, maidenly scent from the beauty in his arms while they flirted, Ye Xing felt so damn blissful. He truly wished this moment could last for eternity.

However, as time passed, the parachute continued its slow descent toward the bottom of the cliff.

Below was a forest and a grassy field. They had descended to about ten meters above the ground.

Suddenly, the Little Purple Eagle on Ye Xing’s shoulder darted its small eyes around, then flapped its tiny wings and flew up above the parachute.

And then—

"PFFT!" "THWACK! THWACK! THWACK!"

The Little Purple Eagle pecked relentlessly at the parachute’s fabric with its sharp beak. In no time, hole after hole appeared in the canopy, and the material began to rip apart.

"Little Zhi, you little saboteur, what are you doing!?" Ye Xing cried out in alarm. Little Zhi’s actions were so sudden that Ye Xing didn’t have time to react. He was utterly baffled by what the little guy was doing. ’There’s no way it’s trying to harm me,’ he thought. ’If it wanted to do that, it should have done it earlier. From this height, the fall won’t kill us, it’ll just hurt a little. Besides, we’re about to land on grass anyway.’

As the parachute canopy tore, Ye Xing and Tantai Mengxue’s speed of descent increased sharply.

The rushing wind filled their ears. They were now only three to five meters from the ground. While such a height was nothing for a Martial Artist, the landing would still be clumsy.

A moment later, a clear cry of pain rang out as Tantai Mengxue landed on the grassy ground below.

Ye Xing followed right after, crashing down on top of Tantai Mengxue’s soft, delicate body.

Their eyes met. For a moment, neither spoke.

Gazing into Tantai Mengxue’s ink-black eyes, Ye Xing felt a tremor in his heart. He suddenly reached out, gently pulled, and removed the veil from her face.

An exquisitely beautiful, melon-seed-shaped face was revealed. She had curving, willow-like eyebrows, eyes like autumn pools, a delicate nose, and rosy cherry lips. Her jade-like face was as white as snow, tinged with a post-injury pallor that made her look all the more pitiable and lovely.

Ye Xing was momentarily stunned. He’d seen his fair share of pretty women on TV and in magazines, but he had never in his life seen anyone this beautiful. ’The phrase ’beautiful as a celestial fairy’ must have been invented just to describe Mengxue’s face,’ he thought.

"Ye Xing... you..."

Her veil suddenly removed, Tantai Mengxue’s beautiful eyes showed a flash of panic and a hint of shyness. A crimson blush spread across her fair face, making her look absolutely stunning.

"Mengxue, having you is the greatest happiness of my life. I swear that for the rest of my days, I will always protect you and cherish you. I’ll make sure you’re always happy and never suffer the slightest grievance!"

Ye Xing said earnestly, his gaze filled with adoration, and gently placed a kiss on Tantai Mengxue’s smooth, jade-like forehead.

(Just one Chapter today. I’ll make it up with three tomorrow!)