Each Had Their Own Experience, A New Disappearance

Through studying this initial map, Lin Yu had no trouble noticing one thing...

The Taoist temple where Little Fire Dragon and the other two had started, and the place where he himself had initially made contact, were located in Chen Family Fortress, southeast of Five Springs Village, and northwest of it, respectively.

Although the distances were more or less the same, the route from the Taoist temple to Chen Family Fortress was smoother. Only a few locations where demons appeared were marked along the way. Judging from the symbols, which were simply a few bright-red circles, the route was dangerous, but only to a limited extent.

As for the route he had taken to Chen Family Fortress... Fu Yuan Mountain, which they had passed through, was covered densely with red circles and crosses. It even had a "skull" symbol marked on it, along with a simple sketch of a mountain demon.

Clearly, his route had been more difficult. Although a caravan familiar with the roads had been leading them, the caravan might even have been a hindrance when it came to making haste!

After all, the living remains being escorted by the caravan for some unknown reason had attracted a large number of mountain demons from Fu Yuan Mountain to attack them, even drawing out Three Suns, the mountain demon leader.

Although the crisis had been silently resolved thanks to Li Nian and Lin Yu taking turns to act... the time they had lost had been substantial!

That was why Lin Yu had grown suspicious.

"We weren't moving quickly to begin with, since we were following the caravan. Then we encountered abnormal demon attacks that seriously slowed us down, and only barely made it to Chen Family Fortress. By rights, you should have arrived later than us."

Li Nian had