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Confident in my own strength, Xiaojiao and I made no attempt to avoid them and instead headed straight toward them. I figured they could not be newly advanced cultivators from the six great sects or the Ancient God Sea, either. Anyone who had just advanced would need a month or so to stabilize their cultivation. Judging by the timing, they should not be the cultivators who had gone back to bring their disciples and grand-disciples to Zhanyu Island.
Sure enough, when the two auras met me head-on, I saw that neither of them was a cultivator from the Ancient God Sea. I immediately had Xiaojiao stop, then asked with a puzzled expression, "Seniors, are you looking for me?"
The two cultivators were a man and a woman. The man wore white robes and looked to be in his thirties. He had long, narrow eyes, with a faint full-moon mark between his brows. He looked like someone who possessed a divine spark, yet he had none of its radiance, which surprised me considerably. Normally, a divine spark holder could be recognized from far away.
The woman wore black robes and was only slightly shorter than the man. She had double eyelids and bright eyes. None of that mattered, though. What mattered was that she, too, had a moon-shaped mark between her brows, no different from the man's.
I frowned slightly. Losing their divine sparks might explain it, but a divine spark could only be lost upon death, and these two were clearly alive!
"Are you the Xia Yitian they spoke of?" the man asked coldly. His expression was rather arrogant, carrying the unmistakable air of someone accustomed to authority. The woman wore the same expression, though she said nothing.
"I am. May I ask your names, seniors, and what you