The Enemy's Purpose
Li Xingrang sighed. "A Xuan has been with us all this way. We've become brothers. It's just a shame that he was captured, and we're powerless to do anything."
"Su Bai and Brother Qin found us and asked about him. After turning it over in my mind, I decided to come after all. Perhaps I was a little presumptuous. But if I hadn't come, we'd all have felt uneasy. If Brother Bi is going to rescue A Xuan, count us in too."
Bi Fan nodded with a smile. "Brother Li, it's truly generous of you to offer."
He gave a bitter smile and sighed. "Alas, it's all because we're too weak. Otherwise, A Xuan wouldn't have been taken away."
"You can't put it that way. If it had been us facing the Third Elder of the Purple Sha Demonic Sect and his squad, we might not have been able to protect him either."
Bi Fan asked quietly, "Brother Li, you've encountered that Third Elder. Do you know how strong he is?"
Li Xingrang shook his head with a bitter smile. "I don't know. That middle-aged man didn't make a move the entire time."
"How many people did he bring, and how strong were they?"
"There were about twenty, and they were very powerful. The weakest among them were Chaos Envoys, and four or five were at the middle or late stages of Chaos Guardians. One of them seemed to be a Formation Master, too!"
"A Formation Master?" Bi Fan paused. It seemed he'd run into a fellow practitioner.
"Was that Formation Master strong?" Zheng Shi'an asked with a smile.
Li Xingrang nodded. "Yes! As soon as he made his move, the formations held our people back. A few of his men were enough to take care of