"Brother Wang, that brat's getting away!" The cultivator surnamed Chen watched as the man blocked one of their attacks, then fled without hesitation while they glanced toward the nearby peak.
The cultivator surnamed Wang turned and chased after him. "Brother Chen, stay here and guard this peak. You two, come with me!"
The man had killed a cultivator from their Azure Water Sword Pavilion, so Wang was naturally the angriest of them all.
The other two followed Wang in pursuit of the fleeing man.
Chen of the Blazing Sun Sect flew to the rocks their attack had just shattered.
He struck the array several more times, and it soon became fully visible.
It was a defensive immortal array with a Concealment Array layered over it.
With the Concealment Array in place, they would have had a hard time noticing anything unusual here.
But their earlier attack had been blocked by the array, exposing it.
Chen's skill with arrays was limited, but after testing it with his own attacks, he could tell it was a fifth-tier immortal array.
This defensive array was likely among the finest of the fifth tier. There was no way he could break it quickly.
He had no intention of stubbornly battering away at it, either.
Before long, nearly a hundred cultivators flew over. Seeing Chen alone, a cultivator at the Immortal Venerable Late Stage hurried up to him. "Senior Brother Chen, where are the others?"
As soon as the man asked, Chen looked into the distance.
"Brother Wang and the others are back."
Everyone turned toward the distant horizon. Soon, three streaks of light came flying their way.
"Bad luck! That brat used an escape art that burns blood essence to get away!" Wang said grimly as soon as he returned.
"No need to worry, Brother