"After all, not everyone can afford the enchanted robe he's wearing."
After saying this, Su Jiu seemed to think of something else. She glanced at the Jade Sword Sect robe worn by the cultivator surnamed Lu. "Still, that robe is far inferior to your sect robes."
Whatever the cultivator surnamed Lu was thinking, he did not pick up the thread of her conversation. He merely cowered behind everyone else, looking utterly terrified.
While Su Jiu spoke, more demonic beasts came ashore. They brought vast quantities of demonic qi with them, making the already heavy demonic qi around them even denser.
Had Su Jiu and the others been unable to hold their breath, this environment would have been sheer torture.
Even so, it was enough to make Dao cultivators like them deeply uncomfortable. Being surrounded by such a thick, oppressive aura was unpleasant, and the demonic qi sought every opening through which it could invade their meridians.
Fortunately, their cultivation was high enough to resist the demonic qi that wormed its way into every gap.
"This aura is really uncomfortable!" Yun Huanling said irritably.
"It certainly is."
Su Jiu swept her gaze across the swamp and found that no more demonic beasts were crawling ashore.
It should be about time.
Su Jiu looked up at the Buddha Child beside her, only to find him looking at her too. Their eyes met, and they nodded to each other before leaping out of the tree together.
At the sight, Yun Huanling instinctively tried to follow Su Jiu, but Chu Luohen caught him by the back of his collar.
"What are you doing?" Yun Huanling's already irritable mood had more fuel thrown onto its flames.
Chu Luohen did not answer him. Instead, Fellow Daoist Lu offered an explanation. "Fellow Daoist Chu is probably afraid