In the quiet wilderness, a small group walked forward silently.
Cang Yan led the way, Li Wan and Fei Yu brought up the rear, and Yang Kai, Mi Na, and Old Man Du were sandwiched in the middle.
With the exception of Mi Na, everyone else looked calm and indifferent, as if they were oblivious to the danger they were approaching.
As they continued walking, Yang Kai’s eyes suddenly flashed.
He was surprised to discover that Fei Jian had disappeared without a trace. This Third Order Transcendent master had managed to vanish without Yang Kai even noticing despite being only a few steps apart.
The night wind blew, the towering trees swayed back and forth, and the leaves rustled eerily, as if there were ghost and demons brushing past them in the darkness.
Mi Na was so scared her pretty face had completely paled and she unconsciously moved towards Yang Kai and leaned against him, looking for a sense of security, her pair of beautiful eyes darting back and forth nervously.
Sensing her uneasiness, Yang Kai firmly grasped her hand, allowing Mi Na to relax a lot; however, she made no attempt to distance herself from him either.
Cang Yan’s mouth slowly curled into a subtle grin, seemingly enjoying this thrilling situation. Li Wan and Fei Yu, who were at the back of the team, also wore aggressive expressions as they scanned the area, as if they couldn’t wait to start something.
Old Man Du, as an experienced Alchemist, maintained his usual calm, unflustered appearance.
Obviously he had great faith in the strength of the four masters from Soaring Heaven Sect.
Suddenly, a burst of strange laughter came from all around, like the howling of a ghost, gloomy and dreadful. At that moment, the night wind seemed to become stronger and colder.
Soon, several more laughing voices began ringing in their ears, trying to disrupt their hearts and weaken their concentration.
However, the three masters from Soaring Heaven Sect were completely unperturbed and continued walking forward without any pause.
Half an hour later, the wicked laughter gradually faded. The other party seemed to have noticed that this little trick wasn’t enough to cause Cang Yan and the others to panic, so they had stopped wasting their time.
“Not even daring to show your faces, just a bunch of cowards,” Cang Yan muttered discontentedly, he thought there would be a big battle when he first entered this region and his blood was boiling in anticipation, but the opposite party didn’t seem to have any intention of immediately attacking and were instead playing tricks on them and probing their reactions.
This made him quite disgruntled.
“Li Wan, go take a look,” Cang Yan said.
Li Wan grinned fiendishly and his small body suddenly disappeared into the darkness.
A short while later, a sad and shrill scream rang out from the forest, giving people a creepy feeling.
These screams didn’t last long, obviously this poor soul had been killed before he had time to react.
The next moment, another scream could be heard from a different direction.
Yang Kai’s eyes flashed. He could tell that these screams came from two different locations at least a few thousand meters apart. In such a short period of time, accurately finding the hiding places of these two people and killing them, Li Wan’s great strength was obvious.
After a brief silence, Li Wan calmly returned and shrugged his shoulders to Cang Yan, “Two First Order Transcendent trash, not even enough to fill the gaps between my teeth.”
Saying so, he licked his lips and showed a not satisfied expression.
Hearing this, Mi Na’s eyes rolled back and she fainted directly.
“This little girl… isn’t her courage a bit too small?” Li Wan was struck speechless.
Yang Kai shook his head and gently held Mi Na against his shoulder.
Fei Yu smiled tenderly and explained while trying to hold back her laughter, “She thinks you actually ate them.”
Li Wan’s face went black and realized how his ambiguous words could be misconstrued. He wanted to defend himself but the one with the misunderstanding was already out cold so he could do nothing but grumble in annoyance.
The team continued to move forward, but probably because Li Wan had just killed two of their group a moment ago, the enemy party became more vigilant.
After two more hours, nothing out of the ordinary had happened.
However, Yang Kai could still sense a vague hostility in the air, indicating their opponents had yet to give up.
Once their group relaxed their guard, the other party would not hesitate to kill them all.
After waiting so long though, Cang Yan had finally lost patience and suddenly stopped, staring around with a cold glare as he shouted, “Since you’ve all already decided to kill us and seize our treasures, you should just come out and fight with us. If you want to keep hiding like timid rats we’ll just take our leave.”
All around it was quiet though, no one answered.
Cang Yan slowly shook his head and looked disappointed before taking out a long sword and waving it, leaving a cut several tens of meters long on the ground beside him.
Yang Kai’s eyes shrank as he instantly recognized this long sword. It was one of the artifacts that Cang Yan and Fei Yu acquired back in the ancient secluded cave mansion.
“This is a Saint Grade artifact. To be honest, I haven’t had time to refine it yet, don’t you want it for your own? If you can kill me, this artifact is yours, act fast, Saint Grade artifacts are rare after all,” Cang Yan said lightly.
“I also have one,” Fei Yu, apparently fearing the world would not be chaotic, quickly added, also summoning out a Saint Grade artifact.
After two yet-to-be-refined Saint Grade artifacts suddenly beings summoned out, in the next instant, countless Divine Senses flooded over like locust to probe them.
At that moment, Yang Kai swore he could hear heavy breathing and feel greedy stares all around him.
“Hey, when did the two of you manage to get Saint Grade artifacts?” Li Wan squinted his eyes enviously, “How come I never knew?”
“A few months ago,” Fei Yu smiled, turning her eyes to Yang Kai, “We got them on our way back after picking up Martial Nephew.”
“The Heavens are blind, why didn’t I have a share?” Li Wan cursed and yelled.
“There were only two, so Fei Yu and I each took one; however, Fei Yu also got a Spirit Grade Top-Rank artifact.”
“Give it to me!” Li Wan quickly ran over to Fei Yu and stretched out his hand.
“What about Fei Jian?” Fei Yu frowned, appearing somewhat awkward.
“No need to bother with him, he only uses bows anyways.”
“How about we do this, I’ll give that artifact to whoever kills the most enemies,” Fei Yu smiled and proposed.