"Dongfang, what's wrong?" Xiang Qingcheng saw Lu Xiaotian's brows tightly furrowed and knew something major must have happened. Otherwise, Lu Xiaotian, who had always kept his emotions hidden, would never have looked so deeply troubled.
"Something feels strange," Lu Xiaotian said, narrowing his eyes.
"Little brother, did you discover something?" Lu Wushuang asked solemnly. After spending so much time with Lu Xiaotian, she naturally knew that his insight into danger was astonishing.
"You've only just arrived, so you don't know much about the situation here. Earlier, Brother Kuang and I, along with that group of powerful cultivators, surrounded and attacked the demonic centipede because a Memory Image Pearl had recorded traces of the demonic centipede appearing together with the deer spirit formed from the Dragon Origin. We guessed that the demonic centipede was probably one of the guardian beasts that had submitted to the Dragon Origin when its strength was still weak. So we wanted to kill it and clip the Dragon Deer's wings. Then, by following the demonic centipede's aura, we could find its lair and, from there, locate the Dragon Deer," Lu Xiaotian explained.
"You mean that not many people should know about this, yet the several groups ahead of us are all moving in astonishingly the same direction. It doesn't look like a coincidence. Could they all be heading there for the Dragon Deer?" Xiang Qingcheng reacted swiftly, her bright phoenix eyes suddenly widening. She and Lu Wushuang spoke in unison: "Someone is deliberately leaking news about the Dragon Deer!"
"Perhaps. Perhaps not. But why would the other party do this? And how could the news spread so smoothly? One person alone couldn't accomplish it." Lu Xiaotian was also somewhat puzzled.
"What's so strange about that? If one person can't do it, then someone must be secretly