On the deck, Qu Qingsheng and the others looked at Shi Yuanmin, then at the expressions on Qin Haisan and his companions' faces. Their hearts, buoyed by the relief of surviving the sea demons' pursuit, instantly sank again.
Unlike the sea demons, which radiated their auras without restraint, Shi Yuanmin did not display an overwhelming presence. To those in the aperture refining realm, he merely felt as unfathomable as an abyss or an ocean; they could not determine his exact realm.
But if he could make even Tong Linyun, who was in the mid joint aperture realm, change expression, his realm went without saying.
"Those sea demons certainly kept their word to you. They actually left you alone," Chen Fei said, looking calmly at Shi Yuanmin.
While steering the ships through Haiyu City's waters to evade pursuit, Chen Fei had already sensed Shi Yuanmin spying on them from behind.
The aura-concealing methods of someone in the late joint aperture realm were extraordinary, but there were plenty of late third-order sea demons. No matter how well Shi Yuanmin concealed his aura, they would surely have discovered him.
Yet those sea demons had not attacked him. Clearly, traitors like Shi Yuanmin carried some special mark that made the sea demons deliberately turn a blind eye.
That was precisely why Shi Yuanmin could trail Chen Fei like this, intending to capture him outright when the opportunity arose.
Under today's unusual circumstances, any number of martial artists dying would be perfectly normal. Even if Chen Fei and everyone with him disappeared, no one would suspect anything.
Waiting until Chen Fei returned to the Yuan Chen Sword Sect before striking would actually draw more attention.
And so Shi Yuanmin had come.
As for Qin Haisan and the others who had seen him, he simply needed