Not until she saw Zhou Changwang take another detour, while a cultivator happened to be traveling alongside them. Naturally, that person did not follow and continued charging forward without hesitation.
Pfft!
Then, after he had rushed more than ten yards ahead, a sharp arrow suddenly ripped through the air and struck him squarely in the chest, piercing straight through him.
"Ah..."
The scream had barely rung out when a martial artist sprang from the grass and charged forth, sweeping his blade sideways.
That cultivator's head flew clean off.
Rogue Cultivators could not afford the luxury of constantly slapping a Body-Protecting Talisman onto themselves.
Caught off guard and ambushed, death was unavoidable.
Qian Xiaoyue's face turned deathly pale.
It had happened too quickly, too suddenly.
She had never imagined that an ambush had been laid not far ahead, targeting passing cultivators.
If she had not followed Zhou Changwang around the bend and continued forward, would she have been the one pierced by the arrow and beheaded by a single slash?
But how had Zhou Changwang predicted in advance that there was an ambush ahead?
Zhou Changwang had also noticed what was happening in the distance, and his expression shifted slightly.
Naturally, he had not known that someone was lying in wait at the road ahead.
It was only because, under the Derivation Technique, he had sensed a faint flash of red light in that direction and instinctively changed course.
He had not expected that someone truly had set an ambush to attack passing cultivators.
It seems the Derivation Technique is indeed quite useful. At the very least, it offers far more safety than others have.
Zhou Changwang thought to himself, but his steps did not slow in the slightest. He knew this road too well; he had walked back and forth