Dongfang Mao had merely been shifting his view out of boredom, looking around. Suddenly spotting a scene utterly unlike the others' battle-ready vigilance, he curled his lip slightly, a strange gleam seeming to flicker in his eyes.
He said nothing and swept past it.
Yet before long, as though prompted by some unseen impulse, he turned back.
"What... what are these?"
The Puppet Master Grand Artisans present also noticed the shift in the Grandmaster's attention.
In a sense, the Sky-Patrolling Eye was now Grandmaster Dongfang's eye. Whatever its view locked onto was whatever held his attention.
Had it appeared in the picture for no reason? That was absolutely impossible.
There was only one explanation: Grandmaster Dongfang had taken an interest in it!
The Grand Artisan from Taiqiu Immortal City, who might otherwise have offered an explanation, was immediately caught in a bind. He stared blankly for a while at the mining scene, utterly unlike the scenes elsewhere of "standing united as a fortress against the demons." Squirming as though seated on needles, he finally steeled himself and said, "It seems to be a rogue cultivator hired by the Qi Family Army?"
Everyone else let out an "Oh," their exclamations laden with meaning.
"He should be a rogue cultivator. There aren't any Qi Family Army banners or insignia on his side, but it looks as though an allied force is stationed there."
"Where is this man? He must be hiding. The Sky-Patrolling Eye hasn't detected him..."
Amid the boundless sea of forest, only Li Chen's puppets were digging all over the mine.
There was no vegetation covering that area, so the Worker Bee Puppets' movements were plain to see.
Although the others could not clearly make out the processing area, they could roughly deduce which structures were workshops and what the