Cultivation knew no passage of time. While Xiao Yuan calmly focused on devouring the Heavenly Flames, the mercenaries of the Wolf Head Mercenary Group stationed atop the cliff grew uneasy after Mu Li and the others failed to return for a long while, so they sent someone to investigate.
But the moment they looked, they were scared out of their wits.
Of the Wolf Head Mercenary Group's thirty-one men, aside from the ten left behind, all twenty-one who had descended into the Mountain Cave had been killed!
Yet the Mountain Cave was completely empty, and no one had climbed back up the cliff either! As for the passage leading into the space within the mountain, it had automatically returned to its original position after Xiao Yuan and Xiao Yi Xian entered.
Unable to uncover anything unusual, the mercenaries could only report the news to the Wolf Head Mercenary Group's leader, Mu She.
Bang!
The next morning, as Mu She stared at the twenty-one corpses his men had brought back, he slammed his palm down on the table.
"Who was it?! Who killed my Li'er?!"
Mu She clutched his chest and roared in grief and fury.
"The young master seemed to have gone to intercept a young Dou Zhe named Yuan Xiao and Xiao Yi Xian. They were most likely responsible!"
A mercenary stepped forward and said.
"What exactly happened?"
Mu She asked darkly.
"Yesterday, we accepted a guard mission from the Ten Thousand Medicines Pavilion and entered the Monster Mountain Range. During a rest break, Yuan Xiao and Xiao Yi Xian left the group for a while. Later, the young master seemed to have sent people to investigate. He must have discovered that Mountain Cave then.
"At night, we were attacked by Gale Wolves. The young master led us in