When Su Mo saw how tightly the Qing Li Clan had set up their defenses, he instantly abandoned the idea of sneaking in. After all, the boundless universe was a vast void, and attempting to hide was exceptionally difficult.
It seemed the Qing Li Clan had also guessed that they might return, which was why they had made these preparations.
Since that was the case, there was no need for such trouble.
Su Mo walked straight toward the Qing Li Clan's Grand Elder, his stride instantaneous, crossing endless distances as if teleporting.
Su Mo's appearance was immediately discovered by the members of the Qing Li Clan.
The Qing Li Clan's Grand Elder locked a fierce gaze on the figure approaching from afar, and several powerful figures of the Qing Li Clan around him quickly gathered around the Grand Elder.
"Leave half the manpower to monitor the surroundings!"
The Grand Elder raised a hand and shouted. He worried that besides the Su Mo before him, others might have arrived, and that Su Mo was merely acting as a distraction.
Yet, gazing at Su Mo's figure, the Qing Li Clan's Grand Elder felt a sliver of doubt. Had the sixteen powerful members of his clan that he dispatched truly failed to catch up to these outsiders?
Or perhaps these outsiders had never left in the first place, and the men he sent out had been lured away?
Soon, Su Mo returned once again to the peripheral zone outside the Jue Tian Great World, coming to a halt right in front of the Qing Li Clan's Grand Elder.
At this moment, however, any trace of the harmony from a few hours prior was entirely gone, replaced by an atmosphere thick with bristling tension.
Su Mo was alone, whereas on the Qing Li Clan's