Ever since they had encountered Zhou Yuntian's group, everything had carried an air of strangeness.
Zhou Yuntian came from Burning Heaven Valley and belonged to the Myriad Demon Ridge faction. If so, then the other cultivators with him had to be from Myriad Demon Ridge as well.
Yet even after recognizing Li Baxian, these people had shown him not the slightest hostility. After Xia Liang spoke up to plead, they had even claimed that there were no factional distinctions here, brazenly declaring that they would resolve the grudges between the two sides.
And now, some inexplicable Exalted One had made a dazzling entrance, one who commanded Zhou Yuntian and the others' utmost reverence.
The four carrying the Consort's Couch on which the Exalted One sat were, astonishingly, all Cloud River Tier Nine cultivators!
Just who... was this Exalted One?
What they saw before them was undoubtedly difficult for both Lu Ye and Li Baxian to understand. Xia Liang and Tan Sheng were equally full of suspicion.
Amid the dead silence, a voice suddenly rang out. "More newcomers?"
The voice came from within the Consort's Couch. Lazy and sweetly soft, it was like an invisible little hand plucking at one's heartstrings. As it sounded, Lu Ye's heart gave a violent thump, and an inexplicable longing rose within him, impossible to suppress.
It was not merely his heart that stirred with the voice, but his mind that slackened as well. Though he could not see what the woman on the Consort's Couch looked like, that voice alone gave him an incomparably warm feeling, making him wish to sink into it completely.
Alarm bells blared in Lu Ye's heart. Li Baxian beside him had clearly noticed something was wrong as well. His swordlike brows drew together, his eyes filled with vigilance. When he