As the first spirit pet to follow her, and a Treasure-Seeking Mouse at that, Big Treasure was more useful to her outside than inside the different space.
"What is it?" Xue Fuyao asked when she saw Big Treasure acting this way.
"Squeak, squeak."
After sniffing for a while, Big Treasure settled back onto all fours, seemingly saying that it was nothing.
Seeing this, Xue Fuyao walked out of the cave. She examined the traces outside its entrance. They did not look like the work of a Monster Beast, but rather that of a person.
It seemed someone had come here while she was away, discovered a formation she knew nothing about, and forcibly broken through it.
The formation she had set up was nothing sophisticated, merely an ordinary isolation formation to prevent outsiders from entering or seeing inside the cave.
Such formations were common among cultivators. Anyone who saw one at the entrance to a cave would know someone was inside and would usually turn around and leave.
Of course, there were exceptions: those who wanted to kill and plunder.
"Looks like I escaped a calamity."
As Xue Fuyao spoke, she raised her hand and cleared away all the traces here, then picked a direction at random and walked off.
Although she had already left the Dead Sea, she had left quite a few Gu Worms there. Some had died when the Mountain-Guarding Grand Array was broken, and more had been lost afterward for various reasons. Now only the last few, which had hidden deeper, remained alive, but they no longer dared act rashly.
According to the information the Gu Worms sent back, the old fogeys of the Longevity Aristocratic Clans had rushed back as soon as they learned they had been deceived.
Almost the instant her side left using