At that moment, Hulagu Khan's party had evidently noticed something amiss as well. Hongyan Hua Jieyu looked into the distance and said to Hulagu Khan with concern, "Prince, there seem to have been more suspicious figures around these past two days. They most likely mean us harm."
Although Hongyan Baifa and Liu Yaozhi were husband and wife, they had long since gone their separate ways. Liu Yaozhi had died silently at the hands of the Old Man of the Mountain, and she did not know who the killer was. After a brief period of grief, she had already recovered.
Mie Tian laughed from the side. "Protector Hua, you are worrying too much. Who on these grasslands would dare lay a hand on our Prince?" Of the Demon Master Palace's Ten Fiendish Gods, Jin, Mu, Shui, Huo, Tu, Ri, Yue, and Xing had all perished in Xingqing Prefecture. They had either been killed by that Korean Fu Cailin or injured by a mysterious person while dealing with Madam Zhen of Khwarazm. Only the first and second, Mie Tian and Jue Di, remained. However, the two of them far surpassed the other eight in martial arts. Given time, they could train another eight Fiendish Gods.
Now that he had returned to the grasslands and left behind Xingqing Prefecture, that nightmarish place he never wished to remember, his mood had naturally improved greatly.
Jue Di and the others beside him also laughed in agreement, clearly not believing that anyone would dare pluck a tiger's whiskers.
However, Hulagu Khan frowned slightly. "We must not let down our guard. Why have the scouts we sent earlier not returned yet?" As a famed general who had spent years on the battlefield, his instincts told him danger was near. He immediately dispatched several guards to investigate in