The Dragon-Locking Pass battlefield.
They watched as Tu Ling, Feiyu, and the third pursuer chased Gu Chenfeng far into the distance.
Bai Miaoyin and Yuan Liekong continued hammering fiercely at the Blood-Colored Cage.
The two expended considerable effort.
Crack...!
As cracks gradually appeared on the cage, they finally saw hope of escaping.
By then, nearly an hour had passed since the three had set off after Gu Chenfeng, and none of the four had returned.
Both felt a sense of foreboding.
"Could Fellow Daoist Gu already have..." Bai Miaoyin's delicate brows knitted tightly, her face full of worry.
Yuan Liekong sighed as well. "If he managed to escape those three, with the battle still raging here, Tu Ling and the others surely wouldn't linger too long. They should have returned already.
"As things stand, Fellow Daoist Gu has most likely met with misfortune. What a pity...
"That Purplecloud Divine Peak is one of the strongest supreme treasures of our Mountain-Moving Demon Ape Tribe. Now it'll be lost along with him."
"You...!"
Bai Miaoyin glared fiercely at him and continued bombarding the cracked cage with all her strength.
But just then.
Something strange happened.
The Soul Devouring Beasts and Phoenix Race experts fighting their forces there.
Seemed to receive orders to retreat at the same time.
They rapidly tightened their formation, then swiftly withdrew along the demonic qi barrier shrouding the area outside Dragon-Locking Pass.
The elite forces of the three sides stationed inside Dragon-Locking Pass seized the opportunity to counterattack, actually wiping out quite a few enemies.
But because the two sides were evenly matched, they could not intercept them, and the enemy ultimately withdrew from the battlefield in haste.
Shortly after the enemy retreated, Bai Miaoyin and Yuan Liekong finally broke free of the cage.
"Huh? Why did those