Looking at Mu Qing standing before him, the Black Iron Mask in her hand, Feng Qi felt awkward.
He had not expected Mu Qing to recognize him after all.
Just like in TV dramas, wearing a mask to disguise one's identity was a lie.
With that thought, he immediately turned his gaze toward the Mist Lord in the distance.
Fortunately, the Mist Lord had already charged into the outer ring of the combat Core Area. Its attention was wholly fixed on the miracle bloodstone, and it had not noticed what was happening here at all.
Otherwise, there really would have been no way to explain this.
"A Qi, why are you here?"
Looking at Feng Qi's awkward expression, Mu Qing's face was full of confusion.
In fact, she had already noticed Feng Qi in the plaza outside the Recruitment Hall.
While the Scarlet Rune Crystal had bestowed upon her terrifying physical abilities, it had also given her many strange powers.
One of them was aura identification.
This ability was extremely special. It allowed her to keenly perceive the emotional auras of others.
For example, if someone developed killing intent toward her.
She could detect that aura of killing intent in an instant.
She called this ability aura perception.
Joy, anger, killing intent, sorrow, despair... every emotion produced a unique change in aura. Through those auras, she could roughly judge what others were thinking.
This ability allowed her to accurately predict an enemy's next move in battle.
Especially when an enemy made a feint, she could easily seize the opening.
Part of her combat awareness also came from this ability.
When she encountered the Mist Lord at the Recruitment Hall, she had sensed a familiar aura.
That familiar aura had not originated from within her.
Rather, she had sensed it from