The people from Heavy Sword Peak had all withdrawn. The vast clearing in the forest fell silent for a time. Apart from three scattered corpses, only Qin Xian'er and her two companions remained. Under the effects of the Heart Protecting Pill, Chen Fan's physical injuries slowly stabilized, but his Divine Soul had been severely damaged and was frantically repairing itself.
"Master, what should we do now?" Li Tieniu asked.
"Take him back to the Earth Ghost Sect. We can wait for him to wake up there; I have something to discuss with him." Qin Xian'er thought for a moment before speaking softly.
Li Tieniu nodded without asking anything further. Ignoring the blood covering Chen Fan, he hoisted him onto his back and followed Qin Xian'er out of the valley.
They had only gone a few hundred meters when they ran into Chen Jingjing and Zhang Rumeng, along with several Heavy Sword Peak disciples. Two of them were the brothers Mo Bai and Mo Hu.
Before the battle, Chen Jingjing had pulled Zhang Rumeng away with a determined look on her face. But the fighting between Chen Fan and the others had been so earth-shaking that they could see it clearly from several thousand meters away.
In the end, Chen Jingjing could no longer suppress her worry. She had thought she could devote herself to cultivation and improve her strength, but every thunderous boom from Chen Fan's direction made her fear grow. Eventually, like Zhang Rumeng, she could no longer concentrate on cultivating. The two exchanged a glance, then ran straight back.
They happened to meet Mo Bai and the others on the way, so they continued searching together. Yang Feng and the others had left the valley in the opposite direction, and the two groups never crossed paths. Not until