"Although I didn't go over to see for myself."
"I could sense the auras of two Ascension Realm Experts and one Eighth-tier Saint Star Position expert."
"Tell me, in the entire world today, other than them, where else could such powerful experts be running around?"
Yan Tianming nodded and gave his solemn assurance.
The moment his answer left his mouth, everyone fell silent once more.
A long, long time passed.
Only then did the person completely hidden beneath the cloak finally speak again. "This is far too not right. Since they came to investigate, why haven't they come over?"
"By rights, they should have arrived long ago... Not right! When my scouts investigated earlier, they clearly reported that people were heading this way. How could they still not have arrived?" Yan Tianming's expression began to change.
Upon hearing his answer, everyone's faces changed in unison.
The cloaked figure trembled all over.
He suddenly asked, "I remember you saying before that you had Jin Duxian and someone else wait there for information. If their people left, they were supposed to follow the clues left behind by the hidden sentries, right?"
Yan Tianming shuddered.
He suddenly recalled how, not long after the cloaked figure had arrived, he had cursed under his breath about why Jin Duxian and the other man still had not brought the news back.
But as more and more experts and higher-ups gathered afterward, he had long since forgotten about it.
Now that he heard it brought up again, he immediately broke out in a cold shiver.
He could already imagine where the problem lay.
"You mean... Jin Duxian betrayed us, which was why Qin Shaofeng and the others changed direction and fled directly?" Yan Tianming trembled from head to toe.
"If that's the case, then it would be