Since he had no experience following people.
Xiao Chen deliberately kept a slightly greater distance, pretending to be nothing more than an ordinary passerby.
After all, he was a local and was intimately familiar with every major and minor road.
As long as he drew closer when passing intersections, it would not matter even if he lost sight of his target afterward.
Yet the route Ye Fei chose twisted and turned, determined to avoid the beaten path.
As a result, Xiao Chen lost him in a moment of inattention.
Before him lay a stretch of rarely visited forest, without even the hint of a path.
"This isn't the road back to the sect at all. Where the hell did this bring me?"
Xiao Chen scratched his head. He had originally been hoping for the snipe and clam to fight, leaving the fisherman to profit.
But it seemed he simply did not have that kind of luck.
"Ye Fei managed an impromptu breakthrough. He shouldn't go down that easily, right?"
Xiao Chen pondered whether to turn back to Azure Water Peak or head inside and attempt a rescue. After all, Ye Fei was his fellow junior brother.
Before he could reach an answer, however, he heard a burst of hurried footsteps.
Then he saw Ye Fei, his face covering already removed, charging out of the forest in great strides.
"There was actually another ambush. You really think highly of your grandpa here."
Before Xiao Chen could react, Ye Fei cursed first.
He then activated a Falling Rock Talisman and hurled it at Xiao Chen, but did not linger to fight. His body twisted as he broke through in another direction.
Boom!
The massive rock struck the ground and actually exploded on its own, instantly throwing up a cloud of dust over