For some reason, San Yue suddenly thought of the time he'd joined so many other factions in Qingzi County to encircle the strange creatures.
Back then, his blood had truly been up. It felt as though his youth itself had been burning.
"I wonder how Captain Ye and the other players are doing now..."
Just as San Yue was thinking about this, he suddenly saw dust rising in the distance, rapidly approaching.
"San Yue."
"Yeah, I see it."
San Yue sprang to his feet and activated [Blazing Fire Eye], carefully peering toward the dust cloud in the distance.
[Blazing Fire Eye] was just an ordinary technique of the Blazing Fire Sect. As a mountain-guarding disciple, he could get it at a discounted price, with a slightly lower sect contribution requirement.
A few more shifts were all it took to earn enough sect contributions to exchange for it.
San Yue might have been lazy, but he only slacked off while working. He still showed up for his shifts. So he'd obtained Blazing Fire Eye long ago and had mastered it.
In fact, because he slacked off so much and had no other powerful techniques to practice, he'd had no choice but to make [Blazing Fire Eye] his primary cultivation technique. So in a way, while the other gatekeeping disciples weren't particularly enthusiastic about [Blazing Fire Eye], this slacker had actually become exceptionally skilled at it, far surpassing his peers.
Now, as he fully activated his third-layer [Blazing Fire Eye], tiny flames immediately flickered in his eyes.
Everything in his field of vision looked distorted, like air wavering in scorching heat.
At the same time, he could see farther, and he fixed his gaze on the place where the dust was rising.
Through the heat-distorted scene, he saw two people galloping on