To keep anyone from connecting Yan Buping with Xiong Dahai.
After changing his appearance, Li Ping deliberately took a detour, approaching Cold Moon Island from another direction. But this lengthened his journey and inevitably cost him more time.
By the time he returned to the vicinity of Cold Moon Island, more than an hour had passed, counting the time spent leaving earlier. Cold Moon Island was now nothing but a scene of devastation.
"Where did they go?"
The scar-faced Xiong Dahai stood above Cold Moon Island, spreading his vast divine sense. He soon detected the lingering traces and auras left by the demon cultivators pursuing Bai Yaoyue and fighting her in flight.
He grinned. A Star Banner in his dantian instantly lit up, carrying him after them with Star Escape.
Several quarters of an hour earlier, shortly after Li Ping left.
Even with a core formation late stage cultivator and a core formation early stage cultivator overseeing it, Cold Moon Island's protective formation had already reached its limits under the combined assault of five middle- and late-stage core formation cultivators from the Heavenly Refinement Demon Sect.
"Fellow Daoist Yao, they came for me. In a moment, I'll detonate the island's protective formation, and then we'll flee separately!" A bitter smile appeared in Bai Yaoyue's eyes, clear as a pool of spring water.
Yao Chengyan gritted his teeth and shook his head. "Then I should stand beside you against the enemy all the more, Fairy Bai. How could I leave you alone?"
He had come to pay Bai Yaoyue the rent and, following the instructions Yao Ji and his wife had left before departing, strengthen relations with their two neighbors.
He had arrived rather early, before Master Yan.
So he stayed to wait for Master Yan. Yet he had barely sat