Drifting through the night rain.
There were few travelers on the road.
Chen Yi silently followed five li behind Ge Muxiao and Lü Jiunan, True Essence poured into his ears as he listened to their conversation from afar.
Son of the Left King?
Left King...
Chen Yi knew of only one person who bore the title "Left King"—Muhage, Left King of the Barbarian Tribe.
He was also the one who had led the Barbarian Tribe's great army north to attack Mengshui Pass five years ago, causing Xiao Fengchun, Fu Wanqing, and many other members of the Xiao Family to die in battle.
"The Son of the Left King is in Shuzhou?"
The Barbarian youth Chen Yi had seen during his last trip to East Market immediately surfaced in his mind.
He remembered that youth being vaguely protected by other Barbarian slaves. He had indeed looked like a Barbarian of high status.
"But why would Muhage's son be abducted to Shuzhou by people from the Poshushuo Kingdom, then sold as a Barbarian slave?"
"How strange."
What puzzled Chen Yi even more was—
Lü Jiunan and Ge Muxiao were also bandits from the Poshushuo Kingdom. If they wanted to rescue the Son of the Left King, why had they not gone straight to the Poshushuo Kingdom people selling Barbarian slaves in East Market?
Why had they instead chosen to bring Evil Demons from the Phantom Sound Sect all the way from West Prefecture to rescue those Barbarian slaves?
Unless the Poshushuo Kingdom bandits who had seized the Son of the Left King were not in the same group as Lü Jiunan.
Thinking this, Chen Yi muttered inwardly, They went around such a huge circle. It all feels rather superfluous.
After pondering for a moment without finding any answer, he simply stopped thinking