Alone

"You bastard—"

Wei Wu could not help cursing, every hair on his body standing on end.

They had actually been abandoned?

"Did they... all leave?" Huan Qingwu opened her eyes at that moment and voiced the same doubt.

"Looks like it."

Wei Wu nodded uncertainly.

Judging by the footprints, the group seemed to have left.

But Wei Wu did not quite believe he had been left behind. That sow Cai Linglong had kept such a tight watch over him and Huan Qingwu; there was no reason she would overlook them when leaving.

Unless that sow Cai Linglong had died.

That was why no one had taken them along.

Yet Wei Wu looked all around and did not see Cai Linglong's headless corpse.

"Did you hear them leaving?" Wei Wu looked at Huan Qingwu.

Even lying flat on the ground, Cai Linglong stood higher than a person's knees. If she had become a corpse, she would have been impossible to miss at a glance.

"No."

Huan Qingwu shook her head. Though she was at the peak of the Spring Gushing Realm, the Demon Locking Rings had sealed all the demon power in her body. Right now, she was not even as capable as Wei Wu. Still, she offered an idea. "Why don't we... go forward and take a look?"

Thus, the two hurried ahead in pursuit.

Before long, they received one piece of good news and one piece of bad news.

The good news was that amid the chaotic fresh footprints, they found tracks that belonged uniquely to Cai Linglong—enormous and deeply stamped into the ground. There was no mistaking them.

The bad news was that after extending for roughly the time it took half an incense stick to burn, the chaotic fresh footprints vanished without a trace.

It was not