The two exchanged a glance and, with perfect tacit understanding, leaned forward to peer ahead.
Before them lay a swamp thick with dense forest, where three cultivators were fighting fiercely.
Lin Qi recognized their identities at once. One was Chen Qinghui, who had once fought her in a spell duel before the Formation Master Tower of the Northern and Southern Heavenly Venerate Mansion.
His companion was another Chen Family cultivator, Chen Hao.
In this Five Continents Grand Competition, the Chen Family of the Central Continent was the only Lineage with two slots, so Lin Qi remembered them clearly.
Lin Qi also knew the cultivator they were targeting. She was Cheng Shiyuan, master of the Ice Soul Sword, the divine sword of the Western Continent. Lin Qi had heard that she was also the Western Continent's only young Sixth-grade Alchemist.
The competition had only just begun, yet the Central Continent cultivators had already started hunting down Western Continent cultivators.
An unreadable look flickered in Lin Qi's eyes.
Old Ye assessed the battle. "That female cultivator is no match for those two male cultivators. She's about to lose."
By the time Lin Qi and Old Ye appeared, Cheng Shiyuan was already covered in wounds.
The three fought amid the swamp forest, using the trees to clash, while countless demonic beasts lurked beneath the marsh, waiting to strike.
With a casual glance, Lin Qi had seen dozens of demonic beast skeletons floating on the swamp's surface, along with several rotting corpses that had been gnawed halfway through.
It was clear the demonic beasts beneath the swamp were no weaklings.
Old Ye glanced at Lin Qi and gave her a meaningful look, silently asking, "Save her?"
Lin Qi gave a slight nod.
She was rather interested in Cheng Shiyuan. Even if she had not