Besides Chen Daoheng, one of them was another familiar face: Huang Yuheng, the late Joint Aperture Realm cultivator who had entered the cave laid out by the Thousand-Eyed Anomaly outside Bianhu City.
Chen Fei did not recognize the others, but their auras closely resembled those of Chen Daoheng and his companions. They were probably disciples of Luotian Pavilion as well.
As Chen Fei watched Chen Daoheng's group, Huang Yuheng seemed to sense something and looked back in his direction. Seeing only an unfamiliar mid Joint Aperture Realm martial artist, he paid him no further attention.
Chen Fei's expression remained unchanged. After being altered by the Blood Refining Origin Art, his aura was vastly different from its original state, so he had not made any special effort to avoid Chen Daoheng's group.
Chen Fei stopped in midair. Only after the people from Luotian Pavilion disappeared did he leisurely fly onward.
The mission Chen Fei had accepted had a full month's time limit, so he was in no hurry. As for the people from Luotian Pavilion, with the late Joint Aperture Realm Huang Yuheng among them, there was nothing Chen Fei could do at present.
Chen Fei flew for several hours across more than two thousand li before reaching the mission area.
The mission he had accepted this time was to hunt a sea demon called an Azure Dragon Carp. This demon possessed an extraordinary bloodline and reached the peak of the second tier upon adulthood.
Moreover, Azure Dragon Carp carried a bloodline inheritance. Following the secret arts imprinted within their bloodline, they could continually cultivate toward higher levels. Breaking through from the second tier to the third was far easier for them than for ordinary sea demons.
He needed to find and kill one early third-tier Azure Dragon Carp, or three