If you really look closely, you’ll see that at this moment, this person is gripping the rock with both hands behind his back, his eyes gazing into the vast, distant jungle, doing his best to regulate his breathing. Behind him, that tail belongs to a python that has lost its head—the python’s head has already been blasted apart, but its body is still tightly coiled around the young man, from his chest all the way down to his feet. Given the current environment, he clearly has no way to free up his hands to deal with this problem.

David Harris was quite frustrated as well. Originally, everything about this training session had gone smoothly. Although he’d encountered danger a few times—especially once when he met a crocodile over three meters long in the river, which was the most dangerous—after more than three months of tempering, his Xuanqi inner energy had finally broken through to the fourth level. According to the Lin family records, no one in the family had ever managed to cultivate Xuanqi inner energy to the fifth level before the age of thirty, but David Harris had done it.

He had planned to leave after achieving his goal, but before leaving, he saw this mountain peak and, on a whim, decided to climb it barehanded. With David Harris’s current strength, while it wasn’t exactly like walking on flat ground, climbing up was still quite easy. Unexpectedly, halfway up, he was suddenly attacked by a python. With his fifth-level Xuanqi inner energy, David Harris wouldn’t have feared this python if they were on land—he’d killed even bigger pythons deep in the jungle before. But on a sheer cliff, the python suddenly sprang out and coiled tightly around David Harris. At that moment, David Harris could only fight the python with one hand and his feet. In the end, his shoulder was bitten by the python, but David Harris seized the opportunity to use the “internal explosion” technique from his family’s “Intent Fist” to kill the python. However, even though the python’s head was destroyed, its body still clung tightly to David Harris.

David Harris’s body was seriously injured, and the python was highly venomous. He was on the verge of losing consciousness, but luckily, just as he was about to faint, he discovered a blood-red flower growing in the place guarded by the snake. David Harris didn’t recognize it, but he knew it had to be something valuable, so he grabbed it and ate it right away.

Fortunately, he guessed right. He didn’t die from his body exploding, nor did he feel anything particularly strange—except that the snake venom was neutralized. But stuck halfway up the cliff, he still couldn’t get the python off, so he could only keep climbing upward with both hands.

“So beautiful.” Looking at the endless jungle, even though he knew how dangerous it was inside, it still looked beautiful from here. David Harris couldn’t help but sigh.

Only someone like him would have the mood to admire the scenery at a time like this. After adjusting his breath for a moment, David Harris glanced at the bloody holes in his shoulder. Because he’d exerted himself just now, more blood had flowed out. It seemed he had to hurry and climb up as quickly as possible.

This spot was blocked by a protruding rock, so David Harris had to go around it to keep climbing. If his body and legs weren’t bound, David Harris would have dozens of ways to get up easily, but now he could only take a risk. Looking at a rock not far away, David Harris adjusted his breathing, then suddenly pushed off with both hands, sliding diagonally downward. As he fell, David Harris spun around, and at the critical moment, his hands grabbed onto that rock.

“Bang... crash...” David Harris’s hands slammed heavily onto it, but because he was carrying a huge python and the impact from the leap, his grip made a loud crashing sound as his body slid downward. For a moment, his hands couldn’t fully hold onto the rock. Fortunately, David Harris quickly activated his Xuanqi inner energy and used his family’s secret “Nerve Point Striking Hand” technique, his five fingers digging fiercely into the stone.

After all, he only had the strength of a human at the fifth limit, and his Xuanqi inner energy was only at the fifth level. In this desperate moment, even though his fingers dug into the rock, they started bleeding, but at least he managed to stabilize himself and didn’t fall. If he fell from here, David Harris would surely die with no chance of survival.

A burning pain shot through his shoulder, his fingertips hurt even more, and his chest heaved up and down. A mouthful of blood almost spurted from his throat. It took a long time for David Harris to recover, then he took a deep breath.

He pressed down hard with both hands, his arms exerting force, and his body shot up several meters. Then David Harris grabbed onto a crack in the rock, and after securing his grip, he used both hands again to pull himself up, his body—still entangled with the python—climbing several more meters and grabbing onto another rock.

For the last thirty or so meters, because he was almost out of strength and his injuries had worsened, it took David Harris a full half hour to reach the top. For the last three attempts, he had to rest for a while each time before he could muster the strength.

“Haha...” He finally made it. David Harris lay on top, gazing up at the blue sky, and couldn’t help but burst out laughing after surviving such a close call.

Although David Harris was only twenty-two this year, he’d already experienced countless life-and-death battles. Even just now, when he nearly fell off the cliff, he didn’t feel the slightest fear or timidity. On the contrary, he was extremely excited. After laughing, David Harris immediately reached into his backpack, pulled out a military knife, and skillfully began cutting the python off his body. Soon, he was finally free. David Harris didn’t bother with the python, and immediately sat down to regulate his breathing.