When they stopped, the people following from the various sects stopped too, either landing or hovering in the air, still watching them relentlessly from a moderate distance.
Shi Chun and the Summer Path Mountain group had grown used to being followed, and there really was nothing they could do about these Artifact-Refining Schools. If they gave chase, the others ran; if they left, the others followed.
Their purpose in coming here was to shake off those annoying pests.
Having found the invisible safety boundary, Gu Liani and the other leaders gathered and conferred in low voices for a while. Then they spread back into formation, crossed into the dangerous territory for the time being, and continued onward.
As soon as they left, Wu Shanshan and her companions from Forgetting Passion Valley landed where they had just gathered. They were not alone; people from several other sects did the same. All had noticed the Summer Path Mountain group's unusual behavior and wanted to see what Shi Chun and the others had been looking at or observing when they landed here.
But none of them found any clues. The lighting was not the reason; mainly, they had no idea what lay behind it, so they were completely mystified.
Chance had also played a part in the Summer Path Mountain forebears' discovery of this boundary's secret. They had happened to see it, which led to testing and confirmation, and only then had they learned the secret of the so-called safety boundary.
Glancing at the people from other sects searching the area as well, the scar-faced Jin Hao asked her fellow disciples quietly, "Were Shi Chun and the others looking at something here earlier?"
Lin Yuefang, whose nose was an ugly cavity, said hesitantly, "I don't see anything special here. Shi Chun's group might