"It's that guy again!"
Watching the smiling youth standing in the sunlight, Xiao Yi Xian's heart gave a slight jump. In the end, she shook her head helplessly.
She took small steps into the mercenary group. Once everyone was more or less assembled, the team of over thirty mercenaries finally began advancing deeper into the Monster Mountain Range.
Once the group set off, Xiao Yan casually moved to Xiao Yi Xian's side, clasping his hands behind his head and letting the warm sunlight fall over him.
"You look so carefree. I really can't tell whether you came to the Monster Mountain Range for a vacation or for training."
Seeing Xiao Yan swagger along like that, Xiao Yi Xian could not help sighing softly. To act so brazenly in the perilous Monster Mountain Range—if nothing else, that state of mind was certainly enviable.
"I'm relaxed because I'm confident enough that the magical beasts here can't threaten either of us."
Xiao Yan casually spat out the grass stem dangling from his mouth and chuckled.
Many of the surrounding mercenaries noticed how intimate the two seemed, but none of them voiced any objections.
The Dou Qi Continent was a world where the strong were revered. Among mercenary groups, it was even more blatantly a matter of whose fist was bigger.
Although some mercenaries were dissatisfied, Xiao Yan's reputation and the strength he had displayed yesterday had already made them afraid to say anything harsh to him.
Everyone knew that the youth before them was far beyond someone they could afford to offend.
A few of the older mercenaries even looked at the pair with faintly suggestive smiles.
They had watched Xiao Yi Xian grow up and had never harbored any improper thoughts toward the girl. Instead, they regarded her as a younger sister,