The wind pouring into their hiding place howled.
After the dust passed, Wu Jinliang leaned against the cave wall and grinned. "Things are moving. Someone needs to stay here. Word has come from the Four Cauldron Sect about tracking the infiltrator, and we need someone here ready to receive them at any moment. We'll take turns. Brother Fang, you come with me first."
Fang Zicheng nodded, and the two slipped out of the cave one after the other.
The elders on the Main Peak looked at the Divine Fire in Pang Hou's hand, all visibly surprised. The commotion just now had shown them that what he held was genuine Divine Fire, one he had yet to absorb.
An elder also fixed his gaze on Jin Guiqi and snapped, "What is the meaning of this?"
"I was disciplining a junior of my own sect. Sorry you had to see that." After this polite remark, Jin Guiqi turned and scolded Pang Hou again. "Stop coming here so often. Now get out!"
Pang Hou and his companion meekly agreed, then hurriedly flew away.
The elders sitting cross-legged on the mountain were both annoyed and amused. Did disciplining a junior really require such a huge commotion? That had hardly been meant to frighten his own junior.
This fellow Jin apparently had little desire to share the Divine Fire locations Summer Path Mountain had found. He had clearly meant to frighten off the pursuing crowd. Unable to intervene openly, he had used his actions to scare them instead.
Such petty, narrow-minded behavior was rather contemptible.
Jin Guiqi did not care what they thought; he only needed them to think along those lines. He glanced at the spot where he had stamped his foot earlier. There was only a fist-sized hole. He flew over it and