Xia Zixiao could, by himself, fight three or four opponents of the same rank. Although it lasted only a few breaths, that alone was enough to prove that his strength far surpassed that of cultivators at the same rank.
Xia Zixiao was equally confident in his own strength. To seize a supreme treasure from the hands of several Yellow Springs Palace cultivators, one would naturally not dare act so boldly without courage and ability.
Yet just as he had obtained the treasure and was calmly making his escape, he suddenly met with this disaster. Although Xia Zixiao had already fallen unconscious, in the instant before losing consciousness, he had still seen the face of the person who had ambushed him. At a glance, intense fear had surged through his heart.
But that thought had flashed through his mind only once before he sank into complete unconsciousness.
Qin Fengming had been hiding in Yellow Springs Lake for several days already. Since someone else had struck first, he naturally did not need to reveal himself immediately.
But as he gathered his divine sense and watched from beneath the water, a faint energy fluctuation suddenly flashed and vanished two zhang in front of him.
The fluctuation was so weak that it was almost impossible to detect. If it had not appeared right before him, he would never have noticed it.
If another cultivator had been here and faced such a faint energy fluctuation, then even if they had detected it, they certainly would not have paid it any attention. The fluctuation had appeared only briefly before vanishing again, and when they focused their divine sense and swept the area once more, there would no longer have been the slightest anomaly before them.
But the moment Qin Fengming saw that thread of fluctuation, his