By rights, although Monk Kongming usually looked meek and often did things that were less than reliable,
he was, after all, a genuine cultivator of the Roaming Void Sea Realm.
Even if someone like him ran into danger, he should at least have made a commotion if he could not win.
How could someone simply have carried him off?
Yet from Purple Plume's earnest expression, it seemed that this absurd thing really had happened right before her eyes.
Jiang Yuechu could not help looking at her in confusion.
"You didn't follow them to take a look?"
"Uh..."
Purple Plume stiffened and clutched the corner of her robe, at a loss.
Her frantic dash to find Jiang Yuechu was not entirely because she lacked the courage to give chase.
Rather, when she thought it through, there were only two possible explanations.
Either Kongming had gone with the other person willingly... or...
the newcomer's strength was already unfathomable.
Only then could Kongming have been taken away without even a chance to resist.
Whichever it was, she could not decide what to do on her own.
If it was the former, that was one thing.
Even if it was a private matter of Tranquil Peace Temple, as a disciple of the Greedy Wolf Star Lord, she could go and see what was happening without causing much trouble.
But what if it was the latter?
If even a Roaming Void Sea Realm cultivator could not resist, chasing after them alone like a fool would be no different from throwing her life away.
Seeing the girl's expression, Jiang Yuechu dipped her chin and quickly guessed what she was thinking.
After a moment's thought, she asked softly, "Did he say anything to you before he left?"
Purple Plume froze slightly and struggled to recall what had