The group traveled over a thousand miles by winding roads, finally stopping to rest near a waterfall. Ever since most of Shang Wucque's squad had also fallen, there were not many squads that dared to search for them afterward; after all, there was infighting among these squads as well. For instance, Shang Wucque had also nearly completely wiped out two other squads.
With the black-robed man no longer around to use the Misty Slaughter Sword Embryo in his body to sense the aura of Lu Xiaotian's Misty Sword Embryo, tracking Lu Xiaotian and his group's specific location within this primitive jungle filled with miasma was not all that easy.
"Did Zimo really escape to this island?" Amidst the dense jungle, a group of over twenty people advanced in a deployed formation without hurrying, Lou Qingqing frowning as she looked toward Zhu Jinfu beside her.
"Indeed, that brat Shang Wucque chased after her as well. At the time, no fewer than ten squads gave chase one after another. I have no idea how things turned out for them," Zhu Jinfu nodded and said.
"Since you knew that Shang Wucque harbored ill intentions, why didn't you come to the rescue sooner?" Lou Qingqing asked.
"You don't understand. The senior fellow apprentice from Niujin Mountain whom I spent a large sum of money to invite ended up leaving the team without authorization and hooked up with that brat Shang Wucque. Furthermore, I couldn't get in touch with the rest of the personnel. You also know that my combat strength can only be considered middle-of-the-road among Spirit Transformation cultivators, so how could I dare to find my way over? Forget about not finding Yu Zimo; I would have had to collect my own corpse first," Zhu Jinfu said with a wry smile.
"Who'd collect