This time, when Chen Mo left, neither Qian Wantong nor Qian Ying had any thoughts of setting him up.
After all, Chen Mo had left for the sake of everyone's lives, including their own. Any schemes could wait until later. Right now, the most important thing was getting through this immediate crisis.
Ouyang Ruo Xi watched Chen Mo's departing figure, feeling concerned and worried. Perhaps she was the only one in the entire group who worried about him the most.
As Chen Mo jogged along, he waved the tree branch in his hand to keep the fireflies from approaching him.
The True Essence inside his body continuously stimulated the fragrance within the tree branch, making the surrounding fireflies avoid it.
However, if Chen Mo neither waved the tree branch nor used True Essence to stimulate its fragrance, those fireflies would likely swarm over him and drown him completely.
Before long, Chen Mo had moved away from the Martial Artist group and disappeared from their sight. There was little moonlight at night, and the valley was shrouded in darkness. If not for the red light emitted by the fireflies, it would have been so dark that one could not see their own hand before their face.
But this made no difference to Chen Mo. Thanks to his night vision, he could see as clearly as he could during the day.
Once he had put some distance between himself and the group, Chen Mo stopped waving the tree branch and quickened his pace, intending to return as soon as possible. The others did not matter much, but Ouyang Ruo Xi was still there, so he needed to get the tree branches back quickly.
The moment Chen Mo stopped waving the tree branch, the countless fireflies hovering nearby instantly flew toward him. They