Su Jiu recalled some things that had happened at the Heavenly Dawn Sect.
Just before the Azure Tide Sect's flying boat took off, she had overheard the disciples beside her talking.
In those final moments, the Heavenly Dawn Sect had been thrown into utter chaos. Some said they were rushing to repair a formation, while others said a traitor had emerged within the sect and they were hunting them down.
Of course, what Su Jiu had seen was Ming Yun secretly following the disciples Sect Leader Li had sent to capture someone, seemingly with some scheme in mind. For reasons unknown, however, their target had fled the sect.
Putting all those clues and signs together, it was not difficult to guess that the female cultivator before her was probably the person the Heavenly Dawn Sect had been searching for.
"You're that traitor from the Heavenly Dawn Sect?"
Mu Ran froze for a moment. She had not expected this female cultivator, whose face looked exactly like Ming Yun's, to turn the question back on her like that.
Then Mu Ran's lips twitched, a trace of disdain flashing through her eyes. "A traitor from the Heavenly Dawn Sect? I was never even their disciple. How could I be a traitor?"
Su Jiu understood. If she was not a traitor, then she had infiltrated them deliberately.
Mu Ran's face was pale from her severe injuries. Having apparently decided these people were not enemies, she relaxed considerably. She leaned her battered body against the giant rock behind her and, without taking any medicine, simply closed her eyes to regulate her breathing.
"Why is there ghost qi on you?" Qi Song was sensitive to auras, so he immediately noticed something wrong with Mu Ran.
"How do you think I ended up like this? Ghosts clawed