"So strong!!"
"Now I'm finally convinced we've run into a true prodigy."
Sun Yifei couldn't help exclaiming.
He then led the others over to offer Li Yun their sincerest thanks.
"Why are there only seven of you?"
"I remember there were supposed to be twelve. What happened to the other five? Did Weird Beasts kill them?"
Li Yun glanced at them and asked curiously.
Sun Yifei and the others' expressions shifted.
They hemmed and hawed, unsure how to explain it to Li Yun.
In the end, Sun Yifei stepped forward.
"We split up."
"The other five, led by Yu Feng, insisted on going to support you. I thought we weren't strong enough and were all injured. We'd only hold you back. We couldn't agree, so we parted ways."
"Support me?"
Li Yun's expression turned odd.
How had he not known anyone was coming to support him?
Those people couldn't even beat slightly stronger Demon People. How were they supposed to help him?
"Oh... and who's Yu Feng?"
"I don't think I saw them come to help me."
"Uh..."
Sun Yifei gave an awkward smile. "Then... perhaps they took a wrong turn? Or maybe, after we split up, they realized they weren't strong enough to help you and decided not to go?"
That was putting it delicately.
A wrong turn, my ass.
Realized they weren't strong enough after splitting up, my ass.
What he clearly meant was that Yu Feng and the others had never gone to help.
Perhaps all their talk of helping had been just that—talk. Or perhaps Yu Feng had used it to pressure the others into going along with him. Or perhaps it was something else...?
But it didn't matter.
They were strangers who had met by chance. Li Yun didn't care what kind of people Yu