It hurt!
His face hurt.
It seemed to hurt even more than all the meridians in his body.
Ren Shaohua came to in a daze. Opening his eyes, he found himself sitting against a tree. There was no one beside him, and everything was quiet, as though he were the only person left in the world.
"Hsss-"
He opened his mouth to speak, but the slightest movement of his facial muscles instantly sent a strange, sharp pain through his face.
It seemed to be swollen.
Bracing himself against the trunk, he slowly stood up and began recalling what had happened before he passed out.
"The fragrance... poison... an attack by Evergreen Sect disciples... agonizing pain in all my meridians..."
At that thought, Ren Shaohua's expression changed instantly!
He swiftly activated his Spiritual Power.
The excruciating pain in his meridians was still there, but remembering the Evergreen Sect disciples who had attacked them, he could no longer afford to worry about it.
"Strange..."
"Where is everyone else?"
Ren Shaohua looked around suspiciously.
He watched for a long time, but his surroundings remained silent. There was nothing nearby. It was as though those Evergreen Sect disciples who had attacked to kill had never appeared at all. Besides that, the other members of his team were missing too.
The sound of wind.
The chirping of insects.
The dim forest.
"Could they all have been killed by the Evergreen Sect?" Ren Shaohua guessed. "And I escaped because the pain in my meridians made me pass out?"
"But... where are the bodies?"
The area was spotless. How did it look anything like a place where a battle had taken place?
Just as his confusion reached its peak, he suddenly heard footsteps approaching from the other side. He immediately hid himself. A few seconds later, he