Feng Jun actually knew the man who came running over. He was Bai Luan's disciple, a male cultivator at the Ninth Layer Qi Refining—unfortunately, Feng Jun had forgotten his surname.
He smiled and nodded. "Fellow Daoist, aren't you being a little undignified, rushing along like this?"
The Ninth Layer Qi Refining cultivator could only answer with a bitter smile. "Feng Mountain Lord, you jest. On the Thunder Plains, walking is the safest option. And since I was in a hurry to get here, running was my only choice."
Feng Jun asked curiously, "What urgent matter is this?"
This disciple had come because someone in his sect had heard that an independent cultivator highly skilled in divination had arrived at the Thunder Plains.
The Four Sects and Five Platforms' disdain for independent cultivators ran deep. Strictly speaking, independent cultivators occupied the very bottom of the Cultivation World's hierarchy of contempt. The Four Sects looked down on the Five Platforms, the Five Platforms looked down on Two Peaks and One Valley... and only then came the independent cultivators.
Thus, the Red Phoenix Sect had not paid much attention to him. Even after that disciple reported the course of the ninety-nine-year-old Frost Li Snake's episode, those above had not thought much of it.
Working backward from a known result was something even Guo Xiaosong could do, let alone the flame-specialized Red Phoenix Sect. Naturally, they did not find it particularly impressive.
In the end, one detail caught the Red Phoenix Sect's attention: among this man's companions were two adepts from the Supreme Clarity Sect.
In terms of public reputation, An Yuhong was somewhat more renowned than Kong Ziyi. However, Kong Ziyi had several close female friends in the Red Phoenix Sect, so she was not entirely unknown there.
As for what their group