Li Hongjiu was changing rapidly now. His skin had turned as red as a boiled shrimp, and the blood qi inside him seemed to be boiling too. Only he knew how much agony he was enduring.
"Centurion, how are you... so hot!" Someone touched him, then cried out and snatched his hand back.
Even a fool could see that Li Hongjiu had fallen victim to a trap.
Watching the mirror projection, Ming Chaofeng took the communication artifact directly from his subordinate and personally sent a message to the command token on the other end, asking what had happened.
Li Hongjiu noticed the incoming message, but he had already reached the point where he could spare no attention for anything else. He pulled out his command token and tossed it to someone whose cultivation surpassed his own, an expert at the grand completion realm of an Earth Immortal whom his senior brother had specifically assigned as his assistant.
He was a man with melancholy eyes, named Gao Lian.
Gao Lian caught the command token, read the message, and quickly reported what had happened.
Ming Chaofeng immediately issued a stern warning: Li Hongjiu was not the only one in grave danger now-all of them were!
Gao Lian came sharply to his senses. An underhanded attack on Li Hongjiu meant someone might be planning to attack them too, didn't it? He looked around at his companions, who had crowded around Li Hongjiu in a confused huddle. If an enemy struck now, they would surely be caught off guard and thrown into chaos.
He immediately shouted for everyone to stay alert, and the others woke as if from a dream.
Ming Chaofeng's expression was exceedingly grim as he watched the mirror projection. From what he had just learned, Li Hongjiu had not fallen into