Still, being unable to beat them head-on did not mean they could not fight dirty. As long as they could incapacitate the two Nascent Soul cultivators, the rest would be nothing to worry about.
Incapacitating Nascent Soul cultivators was no simple matter, though. Permanently crippling them was beyond her, but temporarily robbing them of the ability to move was still possible.
When the Zhang Family saw that Gu Zhinan's reinforcements had arrived, their swords-drawn hostility immediately subsided considerably.
Free and Unfettered Valley was somewhat stronger than the Zhang Family, but ultimately, this was the Southern Continent, not the Central Continent. Even if they killed Gu Zhinan here, as long as they denied it, Free and Unfettered Valley could do nothing to them. Besides, they knew that Gu Zhinan was only the young master on the surface, nothing more than a shield.
Moreover, Gu Zhinan was not strong. Killing him would not take the slightest effort, but adding the three newly arrived Golden Core cultivators changed things.
Although they did not recognize the mysterious youth, anyone who traveled with three Golden Core guards was certainly no ordinary person. Most importantly, they were not confident they could kill them in a single strike. If a fight broke out, the shock waves alone could easily destroy this place. That was not what they wanted to see; after all, they had yet to find that object.
With that in mind, one of the Zhang Family's Nascent Soul cultivators took the lead in sheathing her sword and said to Gu Zhinan and Xue Fuyao, "I know you came for that object too. How about this? We each conduct our own search, and whoever finds it does so by their own fortune. What do you say?"
Gu Zhinan snorted coldly. He did not believe a single