Once she had figured this out, she gained a new understanding of why Shi Chun and the others had approached them so candidly. No wonder it had seemed unreasonable before. Now she seemed to have found the reason.
But looking back, they had had little choice at the time. After discovering that Shi Chun's group had vanished, they had naturally split up to pursue them immediately while they could still be found.
Wu Shanshan in particular had to find Shi Chun's group before their aura traces dispersed. If she was too late, she would not be able to find them even if she wanted to.
Given the situation now, their trip might have been wasted. Wu Shanshan tilted her head toward Black Tiger and asked, "What now?"
She did not project her voice with magic. The wind was too loud, and at this distance, she was not worried about Shi Chun's group across from them hearing her.
Black Tiger also felt that they might have made the trip for nothing, but his gaze settled on Zhen'er behind Shi Chun's group again. His tongue moved inside his mouth, and his Adam's apple bobbed as he swallowed. He was not coveting Zhen'er's beauty; he had recognized her as a divine fire spirit body. Savoring that mouthful would be exquisite.
Devouring another type of divine fire would give his fire cultivation another source of strength and allow him to control another type of divine fire, taking his artifact-refining skills up a major step.
Especially when it was a rare divine fire whose attribute he could not even guess.
Anyone who was not an artifact refiner would find it difficult to understand just how great that temptation was.
Had Shi Chun's group displayed considerable strength, he might have extinguished that desire. But they had