Fang Qianyuan stood on the Seven-Colored Rainbow Bird's back, gazing into the distance ahead.
His physique had reached a level of strength mortals could scarcely imagine. His keen hearing and sharp eyesight surpassed even those of ordinary spirit creatures. Without so much as the aid of the Eagle Eye Art, he could already make out Zhou Ming and the others looking back with varying expressions among the tiny black specks flying above the distant mountains.
"Those are the robes of the Demon Alliance."
As a leading figure in a great sect of the righteous path, and a Wind-Catching Envoy of the Heavenly Dao Alliance himself, Fang Qianyuan immediately identified their origins from that familiar style.
"Why did they say they came for the head of the Shi Family?" Gushe Qingyao asked Fang Qianyuan.
It seemed unlikely that they were old acquaintances of the Shi Family's head who had come specifically to help him.
Although the Shi Family's head and the others were powerful local figures, their sphere extended no more than a few tens of thousands of li. His connections and the interests he pursued all revolved around Tower City and various parts of the Yinshan Kingdom. There had been no word of any renowned expert there being acquainted with him.
Nor did it seem like a chance connection made with wandering rogue cultivators.
The Separate Courtyard held not only Fang Qianyuan, a leading figure of the Azure Cloud Sect, but also six supreme talents among the Azure Cloud Eight Elites, several elder-level Earth Rank Spirit Tamers, leaders of various righteous-path factions, and members of the Heavenly Dao Alliance.
Unless they were close friends bound by life and death, or mighty figures powerful enough to disregard the consequences here, no other members of the unorthodox path would have dared come.