The legend begins with becoming a white deer.

The moment [Spirit Foot] was activated, an invisible force firmly adhered Qi Ji's four hooves to the tree trunk, as if gravity had lost its effect at that moment.

"Phew, it worked!"

I felt both happy and nervous.

Qi Ji continued to tentatively take one step forward (upward), and then another.

It's so easy, even more stable than walking on flat ground.

Qi Ji's eyes lit up. This feeling, which completely defied the laws of physics, was extremely novel to him, and his tail couldn't help but wag wildly.

Qi Ji quickened his pace, climbing straight up the tree trunk. His snow-white figure ascended vertically through the verdant pine forest, his movements as fluid as a lightning bolt streaking across the sky.

When Qi Ji reached the fork in the tree trunk, he stopped and looked up at the horizontal branch that was as thick as a water bucket.

A bold idea popped into my head.

Qi Ji took a deep breath, carefully turned his body, and placed his front hooves on the lower edge of the horizontal branch.

"It's okay, don't be afraid."

Qi Ji tried to comfort himself, but his heart was still pounding uncontrollably, and his limbs tensed slightly from instinctive fear.

After all, before this, any creature hanging upside down would fall; this is common sense ingrained in our bones.

But the strength of his feet held him firmly in place.

A few seconds later, the tension dissipated, Qi Ji relaxed, and tentatively took the first step.

The snow-white deer, head down and feet up, hung upside down from a thick tree branch, walking steadily forward step by step. The whole scene was extremely eerie.

If any human or wild animal were to witness this scene, they would likely be terrified, thinking it was the emergence of some kind of mountain spirit or monster.

"Hahaha, I did it! Upside down, scaling walls!"

Qi Ji was having a great time, walking back and forth on the tree branch twice, and even trying to jog a few steps. After making sure it was safe, he suddenly pushed off the branch, his body lightly flipping in the air before landing steadily on the ground.

Qi Ji shook the antlers on his head, still savoring the moment, and glanced around at everything.

Stones, vines, and raised mounds—in the presence of [Spirit Foot], everything becomes a flat, walkable surface.

Qi Ji excitedly darted through the forest, sometimes stepping vertically upwards on rocks, sometimes swinging into the air on vines, fully displaying his newly acquired skills.

"By the way, let's try that place."

After playing around for a while, Qi Ji suddenly remembered something and turned to run in the direction he remembered.

Before long, a steep cliff appeared before them.

The cliff face is almost vertical, bare and with almost no foothold. Looking down, the height of seventy or eighty meters is dizzying, and the boulders at the bottom of the valley look only the size of a fist.

In the past, Qi Ji would never have dared to approach the edge of the cliff even half a step, for fear of accidentally falling.

But now, he only glanced down before unhesitatingly hoofing himself onto the cliff face.

It still feels incredibly relaxing.

Qi Ji didn't even slow down. He walked down the cliff face step by step as if he were walking on flat ground. Halfway down, he suddenly had an idea and sped up, running down the cliff face!

His entire body was turned sideways, parallel to the ground, and his four hooves swiftly pounded across the steep rocks, sending up clumps of gravel that fell with each step. The wind howled past his ears, and the scenery at the bottom of the valley rushed past him. The exhilarating feeling of speeding along made Qi Ji's blood boil.

"Yoo-hoo!"

A clear, high-pitched deer cry echoed through the valley, carrying an indescribable excitement and joy.

Qi Ji galloped freely across the cliff face, sometimes charging upwards and sometimes diving downwards, making full use of the wonders of the [Agile Foot].

Just then, a muffled rumble suddenly came from afar.

"Boom!"

The sound grew louder and louder, causing the ground to tremble slightly.

Qi Ji stopped in his tracks, his ears perking up warily.

"Another mudslide?"

The moment the thought crossed his mind, Qi Ji ran headlong in that direction without hesitation.

Before obtaining the [Spirit Foot], he would never have approached such a natural disaster casually; at most, he would have found a good angle to observe it.

But now, Qi Ji felt no fear whatsoever; instead, he was filled with an eager impulse to try.

Qi Ji wanted to try whether [Spirit Foot] could help him fight against the mudslide.

After crossing a mountain, the scene before him made Qi Ji's pupils shrink.

On the other side of the mountain, a turbid mudslide, like a giant brownish-yellow dragon, roared and rolled down from the heights.

Huge boulders, mixed in with sticky mud, were swept forward, uprooting trees and eroding mountains beyond recognition, creating a terrifying spectacle.

Without hesitation, Qi Ji leaped into the raging mudslide.

The anticipated sinking and engulfment did not occur.

Qi Ji's deer hooves stepped on the soft, flowing mud. His [Spirit Foot] skill was activated instinctively, as if an invisible, solid footing had been created beneath his feet. No matter how turbulent the mudslide was, his body remained as steady as Mount Tai, without sinking in the slightest.

"Sure, no problem."

Qi Ji's eyes lit up, and then he exerted his strength, relying on the amazing jumping power brought by the seven physical enhancements, combined with the agility skill, he jumped continuously on the surface of the mudslide.

Each leap sends it soaring more than ten meters, its movements as agile as a swallow.

Qi Ji thus flew upwards step by step against the flow of the mudslide.

"Yo...yo..."

A faint, startled cry came from above.

Qi Ji saw a fawn about three months old struggling desperately in the mudslide. Half of its body was already submerged in the muddy mud, with only half of its head and two front hooves sticking out.

"Yo"

Qi Ji let out a cry and increased its speed to the maximum. It leaped several times in the mudslide like a white lightning bolt. Just a second before the fawn was about to be completely submerged, it lowered its head and precisely bit the fur on the back of the fawn's neck with its teeth.

With a strong pull, they dragged the fawn out of the mudslide and held it in their mouths.

At the same time, a desperate cry of a doe came from further away.

Qi Ji looked up and saw several doe standing on a high ground not far away. They had obviously managed to escape the mudslide, but the fawn in the herd was a step too slow and was swept in. At this moment, all the doe were looking in this direction anxiously, their eyes filled with despair and helplessness.

Without hesitation, Qi Ji carried the fawn in his mouth and leaped and bounded through the raging mudslide.

His movements remained steady and swift, as if the ground beneath his feet was not a devastating natural disaster, but solid ground.

Amidst the utterly astonished gazes of the deer herd, Qi Ji nimbly leaped and landed steadily on the high ground with the fawn.

Qi Ji gently put the little deer out of his mouth.

The little one was clearly terrified, trembling like a leaf. Only when it saw its mother rushing over did it let out a pitiful whimper, stumble and fall under its mother's belly, pressing itself tightly against her.

All the does quieted down.

They stared in astonishment at the large white deer that was far larger than themselves, their eyes filled with awe and a hint of barely concealed fear.

The way this white deer walked through the mudslide as if it were flat ground completely overturned their understanding of the world.

Qi Ji ignored their stares, simply calling out softly to the deer herd, then nodding his head toward the distance, signaling them to quickly leave the dangerous mountain range.

After doing all this, Qi Ji didn't linger and turned to run down the mountain.

Just now, when he was leaping up with the fawn in his mouth, he happened to see the view in the distance.

A massive flood was surging in from the east, like a giant gray curtain, mercilessly swallowing everything in its path.

Qinghe Town was located right in the middle of that flood.

Nearly two months of continuous torrential rain had already caused the river levels at the foot of the mountain to rise to their limit. Now, for reasons unknown, this sudden flood has occurred, and the situation in Qinghe Town is self-evident...