"Was that Toothless?"
Dongfang Minghui's face filled with hope, but she nearly got burned by the flames. Lien hastily pulled her back, displeasure on his face. "This fire really is strange. Be careful, Shaman."
It moved without wind, and neither blowing sand nor soil could disturb it in the slightest. Instead, it burned ever more fiercely. There were barely any trees around them, yet the flames had formed a circle on their own, forcing them back inside it.
Some of the Beast Tribe members Mason had brought had tried to escape through the faint ring of fire. But the instant one stepped across, those feeble flames surged up and swallowed him whole. Before he could even scream, he had burned to ashes.
"You actually laid an ambush here!" Mason glared at them, his scarlet eyes looking as though he wanted to devour them.
"Bullshit." Qian Wanyu rarely resorted to such language. Without another word, she gave him a whipping. "Even if you had solid evidence, I still wouldn't take the blame for this. You were the one who proposed cooperating, then tried to steal the Eye of Truth from me over a disagreement. Now that someone else has ambushed us, you want to turn around and accuse me? Do you really think every good thing in the world is yours for the taking?"
Qian Ziyan had not originally intended to use a weapon either. But when those beastmen realized they could not escape, they turned on him from every direction, truly enraging him.
"It wouldn't be Toothless. I doubt Toothless is the only one in this world capable of producing flames like these. Don't let your thoughts run wild." Mu Sheng had barely finished reassuring her when two figures, one large and one small, appeared outside the flames. "Who are