Becoming the Backbone

They couldn't go meet up with Hou Yanqing!

Qin Shaofeng had been clear about this from the start. So although they had been heading deeper into the region over the past three days, he had deliberately slowed their pace.

But because other groups were ambushing people, Qi Dongming and the others hadn't thought anything was amiss.

Still, he had to make this clear!

Qin Shaofeng glanced at the people around him, resolve flashing in his eyes.

Over the past three days, Little Ball had been able to detect danger in advance, but ambush squads were everywhere. One careless step could lead them into someone else's trap. Even with Little Ball's warnings, it wasn't impossible for others to catch up with them.

Moreover, Qin Shaofeng hadn't dared lead the others in a counterattack against most of the ambushes. Often, there wasn't just one ambush squad; the entire force of a faction might be nearby.

If they got held up, they would be in grave danger.

And even if the people weren't from the same faction, ambush squads from other factions might show up too. That would be just as troublesome.

Qin Shaofeng and his group had run into this situation several times!

For this very reason, aside from the first ambush squad they encountered, from the Heavenly Machine Pavilion, which had killed three of their members before they could react, seven or eight more people had been killed over the past three days—even with Qin Shaofeng's Pill Realm.

Now Qin Shaofeng's squad had only nineteen people left, fewer than twenty!

With people dying one after another, the survivors were desperate to return to Hou Yanqing's side. As they saw it, they would be safest with him.

But that would be a problem for Qin Shaofeng.

After thinking it over, Qin Shaofeng