Red Beard: "..."
With Red Beard and Youguo helping deal with the death qi, Ye Chuqi naturally kept her focus on the malice in Liao Leaf Forest.
After watching Red Beard and Youguo leave, San San asked, "Qi Qi, are we still going to Liao Leaf Forest?"
"I have a hunch." At a time like this, the conventional choice would indeed have been to go to Liao Leaf Forest and find the Knotleaf Tree. After all, that location was the most crucial. "I want to take a look at the Altar."
According to San San's calculations, the Altar was not at the formation's most critical point, but Lu Ronghuan and the others had gone to great lengths to destroy the barrier on it. There had to be more to it. Besides, the Knotleaf Tree had never told her what exactly it was guarding.
That was what Lu Ronghuan and the others coveted. And since they coveted it, they would surely stand guard over the fruits of their victory, waiting for the moment to reap them. Although she estimated that the malice would only fully take shape when the next Celebration Day arrived, given the way Lu Ronghuan and the others operated, they would certainly have left someone here to guard against unexpected developments.
Ye Chuqi was the biggest unexpected development in their current mission. Ever since their encounter in the Lost Forest, she had ruined nearly every one of their missions. Who knew whether this counted as a fated, ill-starred connection?
All Hake knew was that ever since they had met Ye Chuqi, they had suffered one stroke of bad luck after another and been targeted at every turn. This was nothing like what they had expected. Over all those years, other senior members had come to the Raila Continent