However, not long after they left, the situation they had least wished for still came to pass.
"Strange. Where did that person go?"
The Maha Gu Clan members outside stared at the now motionless, empty expanse before them and could not help frowning slightly. They found it baffling. How had the figure they had just seen vanished in the blink of an eye?
"...Let's search around here for the moment. The Maha Gu Clan and the Futuo Gu Clan are about to form a marriage alliance, after all. It would not be very appropriate for her to leave without so much as a word."
The leader waved a hand, his gaze resting on the mist-shrouded mountains below with a trace of curiosity in his eyes.
If he had not caught that fleeting glimpse of the Futuo Gu Clan's clan mark on the young woman, he naturally would not have gone to such lengths.
Still, this was a major matter for both clans. As those above acted, those below followed, and their attitude toward the Futuo Gu Clan had changed somewhat as well.
Though they had previously both been among the Five Great Ancient Clans, they now had another sort of connection. New interactions were naturally tacitly approved by both sides.
Who would have thought that the other party would turn and flee the moment she saw them, as though she were especially resistant to any contact with them?
Their previous relationship with the Futuo Gu Clan had not been so poor. Some among the younger generation had even interacted quite often. Yet this was the first time they had encountered someone who ran the moment she saw them.
Since when had they, the publicly acknowledged foremost of the Five Great Ancient Clans, become rats crossing the street?
Even their conflict