If those people had merely stared at him, that would have been nothing. The problem was that the expressions accompanying their gazes were all wrong.
Li Hongjiu abruptly sensed trouble. He could feel unmistakable killing intent, and more than one person in that group seemed to want him dead-several did.
Just as he was about to leave at speed, he stopped abruptly in midair. He needed neither the wind nor a magical treasure to support him, proof of his current cultivation.
He hovered there watching those people, then slowly turned his gaze toward Shi Chun, beginning to suspect that he had fallen into a trap Shi Chun had laid.
The people blocking Shi Chun had yet to show any killing intent toward him. Why were the ones over here intent on killing Li Hongjiu instead?
Given his habitual wariness toward Shi Chun, it was hard not to suspect him of playing tricks.
Of course, a rational assessment also gave him reasons to doubt that suspicion.
First, his relationship with Shi Chun did not seem to have reached the point where one of them had to die.
Second, even if Shi Chun wanted to attack him, there was no need to sneak all this way. They had traveled from one end of Gathering Grotto Continent to the farthest other end.
Finally, judging by the situation, Shi Chun did not seem to know these people either.
If Shi Chun really was setting him up, Li Hongjiu could think of only one possibility: Shi Chun was not the mastermind. It would be just as his master had repeatedly warned him before he left the mountains, insisting that he depart in secret. In short, rivals on the same road were enemies.
Someone might simply not want to see the Treasure-Evolving Sect produce a person