After getting free, Wang Wu immediately returned to the Spirit Capturing Ship. He had even deliberately frozen himself into a lump of ice, making himself look utterly miserable.
It was not to win anyone's sympathy, nor to clear himself of suspicion, because that fellow would never be able to learn the truth.
He was merely guarding against that unknown fellow flying into a murderous rage and leaving him caught in the crossfire!
That guy had hunted five Screeching Birds in such a short time. His strength had to be above Grand Unity Fifth Stage.
Of course, perhaps nothing would happen at all...
No sooner had Wang Wu thought this than three flashes of golden light streaked by. The three young Grand Unity cultivators who had come with him hurried back, followed closely by a fourth. Yet the fifth fellow was still nowhere to be seen. Who knew what he had encountered?
As for Shuang Liuyun and the others, there was no movement from them.
"Tut, tut! What an unlucky start. A Grand Unity cultivator painstakingly raised, yet before he could even prove his worth, one had already been lost."
"Haha! I bet they ran into some old Grand Unity geezers from the Myriad Immortal Alliance. Those bastards love this trick—throwing out a True Sun Immortal Talisman nearby to lure Screeching Birds or Screeching Beasts into attacking. Once those foolish little things were locked in a standoff, they swooped in like an oriole behind the mantis."
"Not necessarily the Myriad Immortal Alliance. This trick is no longer any secret. Who doesn't keep a few True Sun Immortal Talismans in reserve?"
The huge dragons who loved watching the fun sprawled across the Spirit Capturing Ship's Three Calamities Long Sail. While serving as laborers and boatmen, they still had the leisure to gossip