"Senior Sister Qu, stop joking! This is no time to sulk!"
Shen Zhong's face was full of urgency, but Qu Fanghua still held her neck stiff, refusing to yield. He simply stopped bothering with her, turned, and hurried away with the others.
"Shen Zhong... you..."
Qu Fanghua stood frozen, her whole face twisting with extreme anger.
Shen Zhong had always been her follower.
From when they first joined the sect, to when they entered the Star Ranking one after the other, and then joined the Sorrow Soul Salvation Society together, Shen Zhong had always been willing to follow her and obey her every word.
But now, Shen Zhong had simply abandoned her and run off with Chen Cheng, the person she disliked most...
To Qu Fanghua, this was no longer a slap in the face. It was humiliation! An unbearable disgrace!
She gritted her teeth fiercely, turned, and prepared to flee in another direction.
Yet.
Hearing footsteps rapidly closing in from both east and west, she felt fear erupt uncontrollably in her heart, verging on despair.
She knew perfectly well that she had almost no chance of escaping alive on her own.
And she was terribly, terribly afraid of death. That much was clear from how she had been the first to abandon her horse and had rushed to the front of the group without regard for the energy she expended.
After hesitating for less than two breaths, she changed her mind and immediately chased after Chen Cheng and the others at her utmost speed.
A short while later.
Chen Cheng had already led everyone to the rocky hillside.
Scattered rocks covered the slopes, lying every which way in all manner of shapes.
From afar, they looked utterly chaotic, leaning against one another in a dense, tangled mass.
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