Pu Wen hurried into the main hall, without the Qin Fengming everyone had expected to see accompanying him.
Everyone knew that Pu Wen had agreed to remain on the outskirts of that region this time precisely to protect Qin Fengming. Yet now Pu Wen had appeared alone at the Immortal Jade Hall, leaving everyone puzzled.
"Master, where is Fellow Daoist Qin? Why didn't he return with you?" Shi Pan stepped forward, bowed in greeting, and asked in astonishment.
Pu Wen swept his gaze across everyone in the hall and said in a somber tone, "I waited in that region for several dozen days, but I never saw Young Friend Qin. The jade token I gave him was never activated either, so I couldn't sense his exact location. With the agreed-upon date approaching, I could only return."
Everyone was stunned. They had been active in that region for an entire month. Although not everyone had encountered one another, they had still run into each other several times. Yet whenever they detected someone from afar, they had quickly moved away.
And among more than a dozen Mahayana cultivators, not one had seen Qin Fengming.
"Could Fellow Daoist Qin have never gone to that region, and instead found another place with Profound Tier ferocious beasts?" Shi Pan frowned and murmured.
That region was vast, but no one had encountered Qin Fengming. There was something strange about that, and Shi Pan could not help thinking further.
Everyone fell silent. What Shi Pan had suggested was quite possible.
The Ferocious Beast Continent was vast, and there was more than one such place in its core region. Anywhere a Mahayana ferocious beast lingered might contain unknown auras and serve as a gathering place for mighty ferocious beasts.
"Perhaps that is indeed what happened. I'm only worried