If Qin Fengming had been here at this moment, he would certainly have recognized the four cultivators who had appeared. They were precisely the four who had ambushed Qingyu outside Cloud Crane Valley.
Those four had entered the perilous region several months earlier than Qin Fengming and the others, yet had only now arrived here. Clearly, they too had endured many hardships within this perilous land.
Qin Fengming had never asked the female cultivator what grudge the four had against Qingyu.
However, given Qingyu's troublemaking nature, the four might not have deserved death. Perhaps they had merely offended Qingyu with their words, after which she had begun pursuing and hunting them down.
Back then, outside Sumeru Space, Qingyu had hurriedly shown herself before immediately departing again. She had said that she was going to intercept several people. Those people might well have been these four.
Seeing that Qingyu was still standing atop the mountain peak and showed no reaction whatsoever to their arrival, a sharp glint flashed through the young Emperor Venerable avatar's eyes, and he suddenly made his decision.
Seeing the avatar act this way, the other three could only follow, no matter how unwilling they were.
The four cautiously approached the mountain peak where Qingyu stood. None of them felt at ease, and all of them were prepared to withdraw at any moment.
They had already fought Qingyu several times and knew all too well how troublesome this demonic woman was, especially her methods of brutally torturing those she captured. If the four of them had not specially practiced a combined-strike magic array before entering Qinggu Space, and had instead fought separately, they might have been captured by Qingyu one by one long ago.
Although they feared the female cultivator deeply, Han Lie, as an Emperor Venerable avatar,