In the end, a fight broke out anyway.
No one knew who had struck first, but Su Jiu distinctly sensed a considerable number of people surrounding her.
Yes, people. Dao cultivators.
They were one of the three groups Su Jiu had detected earlier. She had no idea what she had done to provoke them.
Fortunately, they were not difficult to deal with.
With Su Jiu and her Junior Granduncle working together, quite a few of their attackers were killed in short order.
Hidden in the shadows, Sha Zilai gripped a white jade porcelain bottle, his eyes flickering uncertainly.
These idiots were actually this useless.
In just a few dozen breaths, more than half of them were dead or wounded.
Yet neither Su Jiu nor Chu Luohen had suffered so much as a scratch.
Su Jiu had long since noticed the little pest hiding in the shadows. She simply did not know what he was planning.
As she fought, Su Jiu searched her memories for someone like him, but found nothing.
She was certain she had never seen him before.
Then where had his hostility toward her come from?
Su Jiu's gaze happened to skim over the porcelain bottle in his hand, and her eyes darkened slightly. That was...
"Watch out for the man in the corner."
Su Jiu received Chu Luohen's secret voice transmission.
Su Jiu raised her slender hand, driving a vicious sword strike straight through her opponent's heart. Then she turned toward Chu Luohen, her lips lifting slightly. "Don't worry. I noticed him long ago."
Chu Luohen nodded without another word and moved straight to Su Jiu's side, cutting down another would-be ambusher with a single stroke. Standing back to back, they each dealt with the enemies within reach. Before long, they had cleared out most of the