"Ah!"
"Ahhh..."
Miserable screams rang out one after another from the forest.
The hair-raising sounds made the nearby insect beasts retreat one after another.
A group of several people abruptly stopped in their tracks.
"What happened over there? Why is someone screaming so miserably?" one person asked, trembling all over.
"Could some people be having a conflict?" someone else asked fearfully.
"Impossible!"
Someone else immediately refuted him. "Those who can come to Tian Lian Mountain are all martial artists with decent cultivation. How could they let out such screams so casually?"
"Could they have encountered some incomparably vicious insect beast?"
"Should we go take a look?"
"Look? What if it's some insect beast that crawled out of hell?"
"I don't want to die!"
Most of this group were young men and women dressed in splendid attire.
Their cultivation was not weak either. There were as many as ten Heavenly Venerate Realm experts responsible for guarding them, with more than seven of them at the fifth tier or above.
Such strength clearly did not belong to people from the nearby Tianxiang Sect.
They were disciples of the somewhat more distant Tianlan Sect.
Before their discussion could yield any conclusion, it was interrupted by a sudden burst of footsteps.
"Bastard, bastard, bastard!"
Curses rang out as well, carrying rage that seemed on the verge of exploding.
"That bastard actually dared to dirty my fan! My fan... this is the only keepsake she left me! Sob, sob, sob..."
"Young Master, it's only a trace of blood. How about I wipe it clean for you?"
This was another person's voice.
"Would wiping it help? Would it help? Would it help?"
"There's already a bloody smell on the fan, and it's the stinking blood of some disgusting bastard! No matter how clean you wipe it,