Then he turned.
With his back to the crowd, he gazed deep into the canyon, as if waiting for something.
"What... is he doing?"
The Dark Abyss Master narrowed his eyes.
"Could there be other Void Echoers who survived farther back?"
It wasn't just the people of Dark Abyss who were puzzled. Even the Void Echoer camp was completely baffled.
"That's not right. If Mortal Fellow Daoist is trying to support his other teammates, why wouldn't he stay with everyone? Why come out first on his own instead?"
"If it isn't for his teammates, then why wait here? Wouldn't waiting outside the canyon be the same?"
As everyone speculated, a sharp glint flashed in Huai Zhen's eyes, as if he had grasped Jiang Fan's intention.
"He isn't holding the fragment. Right now, the fragment should be in the hands of someone from Dark Abyss!"
"If the people of Dark Abyss got the fragment, they'd still have to come out for it to count as a victory..."
"So what he wants is..."
Huai Zhen was Jiang Fan's master, though the two had not spent much time together.
But before this, he had heard of Jiang Fan's many deeds, so he was still rather familiar with Jiang Fan's temperament.
Jiang Fan always solved problems in the simplest and most direct way.
Now he had appeared so abruptly at the canyon exit and was waiting for no apparent reason right on the boundary line.
If his guess was correct, then everything made sense.
Huai Zhen had only just thought of this and had not yet had time to tell the Void Echoers his guess.
At the canyon entrance, in the energy zone...
Buzz, buzz, buzz!
Violent energy fluctuations came again.
This time, the ripples spread even wider than when Jiang Fan had