Wei Yunqing felt terribly wronged as well:
"Wasn't it you who told me to lead the way?"
Yunxi shot Wei Yunqing a glare when she tried to edge closer, then turned her gaze toward the gray mist. She patted her chest and woke Dian Dian, who had been dozing off.
Dian Dian had stubbornly held off on advancing because he wanted to accompany his master through the Grand Competition of the Five Regions. After receiving Xiao He's message and learning that the evil cultivators intended to tamper with the competition, Dian Dian had remained by Yunxi's side on guard, so he could spot any evil cultivators approaching his master at the first possible moment.
But over the past two days, Dian Dian had been unable to hold on much longer and always looked half-asleep.
Worried that Dian Dian might truly fall asleep, Yunxi did not dare send him into her space. She had kept the little fellow tucked in her robes, and now that she needed him to identify these things, she woke him directly.
Dian Dian rubbed his black-bean eyes with his tiny paws, then his nose began twitching nonstop. The next instant, his drowsiness was scared away. Every hair on his body stood on end as he immediately cried out:
"Master! Master! You've entered an evil cultivator's lair! How could you be so careless? Aren't you competing in the Grand Competition of the Five Regions? How did you get sent to a place like this?"
Dian Dian anxiously spun in circles in Yunxi's palm, feeling that his master had encountered the greatest crisis on her path of cultivation.
Yunxi raised her brows at his words, which indirectly confirmed her own suspicions. Looking at the gray vapors that were eager to make a move, her brows knitted tightly. This