As Lu Feng's group drew closer to Wisteria Wood Forest, the beasts appearing around them from time to time visibly grew more numerous.
However, since they were still considered to be on the outskirts of Vine Abyss Forest, none of the beasts that appeared were particularly powerful.
Even the occasional ferocious beast at the Earth Soul Realm was easily driven away by Lin Xuxu using specially made beast-repelling poison powder.
After recovering and regulating their breathing along the way, Guo Enshu and Wang Bafang had barely stabilized their injuries. However, they remained far from fully recovered, especially the bones that had been shattered throughout their bodies.
Though Lu Feng and Tang Yuan possessed restorative pills, most of them were Heaven-grade. Setting aside whether Guo Enshu and Wang Bafang could withstand such overbearing medicinal effects, Lu Feng and Tang Yuan would not readily give them away to people they had met only by chance.
After all, killing for treasure was commonplace among ordinary soul masters, let alone Soul Hunters who lived every day with their lives balanced on a blade's edge.
Although Lin Xuxu and the others seemed decent enough for now, it was better to keep a low profile before trust had truly been established.
The group talked quite a bit along the way, but Lu Feng could sense that Lin Xuxu and Guo Enshu were clearly carrying a trace of vigilance and wariness whenever they spoke with them.
The matters Lin Xuxu and Guo Enshu discussed among themselves were all inconsequential, yet whenever they questioned Lu Feng's group, their words carried obvious probing intent.
Especially whenever the Flying Dragon Soul Hunter Squad was mentioned, Lu Feng could even vaguely sense a thread of hostility from the two.
Because of that, he could only abandon the thought of bringing it