A colossal maple tree had appeared out of nowhere. Its thick branches were covered in countless dense crimson maple leaves, layered upon one another like clusters of fiery red clouds, turning even the sky a blazing scarlet.
Yet instead of feeling any heat from that flaming scene, Ye Jingcheng felt only a crystalline chill spread through his entire body.
When Ye Jingcheng looked to either side, Prefect Wang, Prefecture Lord Xiao, and the others were nowhere to be seen.
Even Yin Wu True Person and Luo Sha True Person had vanished.
At this moment, he was the only one standing beneath the maple tree.
"Senior Zhang?" Ye Jingcheng pondered for a moment before calling out tentatively.
Even if Ye Jingcheng could not see through an ordinary formation, he could still discern some clues.
But the formation before him was not only incomparably intricate in his eyes, it also left him unable to find the slightest flaw.
After pondering for a long while, Zhang ZhiQiu was the only name he could think of.
Of course, he would have preferred it not to be Zhang ZhiQiu.
After all, Zhang ZhiQiu was a rogue Nascent Soul Cultivator. His abilities were certainly no small matter.
Yet before coming here, only Zhang ZhiQiu had pursued Luo Sha True Person. It was perfectly normal, in Ye Jingcheng's view, that the other party had secretly followed them here.
Moreover, Luo Sha True Person had voluntarily revealed it back then, which struck Ye Jingcheng as exceedingly strange. Cultivators generally endured in silence and kept contingencies in reserve, yet he had told Prefecture Lord Xiao and Prefect Wang about it.
He had most likely wanted Prefect Wang and Prefecture Lord Xiao to check whether Zhang ZhiQiu had planted some tracking method on him.
Of course, all of this was