Only after her clash with the Fire Banner Bird did Su Jiu take notice of her surroundings.
Mountains and streams, birdsong and fragrant flowers-it was another stretch of forest.
This differed somewhat from what Su Jiu had imagined.
She had thought that, since this place was called the Hongsheng Heavenly Road, it ought to have at least one road. Instead, she had to switch back into search mode and work out which direction the road lay in.
Yet when she spread her divine sense outward with herself at the center, she abruptly discovered that it could not cover the entire Woods.
Her Cultivation Level had now reached the Out-of-Body stage. By rights, covering several cities should have been effortless, and an ordinary forest should have posed no problem either. Yet these Woods were unexpectedly vast.
Still, she had not come away entirely empty-handed. When she spread her divine sense, she had "seen" a few creatures, but nothing more. In other words, not a single person had landed in these Woods with her.
Su Jiu stood where she was and gave it a little thought, easily figuring out what had happened outside.
She had never revealed her true strength to outsiders. The arena competition five years ago had merely been a contest between disciples of the various sects. Even though she had taken first place, many people had paid her no further attention.
She was not one to draw attention to herself, but keeping a low profile meant she was destined to gain little fame.
How many people would be willing to stake anything on the words of someone with no reputation?
So Su Jiu could understand what those cultivators standing outside, unwilling to enter, were thinking.
But what did that have to do with her? They were neither friends nor