Amidst the wind and snow, thick black mist rolled without dispersing.
After walking for some distance, Gu Qingshan suddenly sensed something was amiss and hurriedly called out, "Wang Xiaoyi?"
There was no response.
Gu Qingshan's heart sank.
--Wang Xiaoyi was the name of the other scout.
After entering the black mist, he and Wang Xiaoyi had separated slightly to broaden their scouting range. Who would have thought that in the blink of an eye, he would lose track of the other person.
"Wang Xiaoyi?" he called out softly once more.
Still, no one answered.
Amidst the endless black mist, only the howling sound of the northern wind remained.
Gu Qingshan was at the Mount Sumeru Master realm, and sending out his divine sense to observe tens of thousands of miles around would normally pose no problem. Yet within this black mist, his divine sense could only observe conditions within a ten-meter radius; anything beyond ten meters was blocked by the black mist.
With no other choice, Gu Qingshan halted his steps.
It was already unsuitable to continue venturing deeper into the black mist.
Pondering slightly, he slipped off the steel gauntlets on his hands and instead drew out a pair of thin leather gauntlets.
--These were the animal skin gauntlets given to him by Banished Sword Immortal Wang Shun, serving as a birthday gift for "Li Qiushan".
This pair of leather gauntlets could summon the fortification of roaring flames, proving far superior to standard-issue guard gauntlets.
Gu Qingshan put on the leather gauntlets and slipped the steel gauntlets over them once more to avoid being seen by others.
Trouble had already struck Wang Xiaoyi's end. Rather than pressing on alone, he might as well retrace the direction of Wang Xiaoyi's departure and check what was happening over there.
Gu Qingshan