Chapter 222
"Heh. Rather than staying shut away in your Nine Dreams Sect, what brings you out to a place like this?" Han Sanmian said lightly.
"This junior has her own affairs to attend to. But for a key combatant like Elder Han to slip away just as a battle begins—that is somewhat unusual," Yun Xiazi replied.
"You young ones pick up a few sharp phrases and can't wait to use them. How do you know I'm not out here fighting foreign enemies?" Han Sanmian said.
Yun Xiazi's mind moved quickly, turning over the question of why a Blood Ancestor Elder would appear in this stretch of the Mist Zone.
They were already far from the battlefield. The Elders of the Taisu Primal Disk never moved without a clear target in sight—none of them did. No one climbed to their level without being both exceptional and calculating.
A Blood Ancestor's Blood Heart didn't strengthen them on its own. It grew only by devouring powerful experts.
Wait. Devouring—
Yun Xiazi tracked his flight path in her mind. Like her, he was headed in the exact direction the Clear Wind Temple's convoy had gone.
A cold suspicion crystallized.