That left only the group of people in black hoods they had happened upon in the street when they first arrived.
Those people had covered themselves thoroughly, but their conversation had made it fairly clear that they belonged to the Soulguiding Sect...
The Soulguiding Sect, then...
Sure enough, shortly after Su Jiu finished speaking, people in black hoods appeared from every direction.
Su Jiu swept her gaze over them. There were far fewer than she had seen in the street.
As for the other group, they had undoubtedly gone to the spirit-absorbing mineral vein. She wondered how the Enforcement Hall's mission was progressing over there.
Almost everyone in this group was dressed alike. Only their leader wore a dark red hood.
Su Jiu instinctively glanced at Ning Fan beside her. Senior Brother Ning looked much better in a hood than these people did.
As though sensing her gaze, Ning Fan tugged his hood lower in slight discomfort.
The leader in the red hood regarded Su Jiu and her companions with blatant arrogance, looking just like one of the brainless villains described in storybooks.
"You're Su Jiu?"
Su Jiu gave no reply, merely regarding the red-hooded man opposite her with exceptional coldness.
When she continued to ignore him, embarrassment turned to anger. "What's the meaning of this silence? Do you look down on us?"
Su Jiu found him nothing but noisy. The Soulguiding Sect was putting less and less thought into the people it sent out.
In her eyes, they were even worse than the people from the Zheng Household. At least Zheng Li and Meng En had possessed some brains.
But what sort of creatures were standing before her now?
Although the man wore a hood, he had not concealed his face completely beneath it as Ning Fan had. Instead,