"Junior Sister?"
Wang Ba turned slightly at her words. Seeing Qin Lingxiao completely unharmed, he could not help looking astonished and doubtful.
And he was not alone. Yuchi Shu and Yuchi Lian wore the same expressions.
Yuchi Shu could not help looking toward Yuchi Lian. Equally bewildered, Yuchi Lian hurriedly transmitted her voice:
"This shouldn't be! Judging by the timing, Qin Lingxiao should still be surrounded by those Fierce Beasts!"
"Play it by ear!"
Yuchi Shu only had time to reply with that single sentence.
Just then.
A streak of light suddenly flew over from afar.
Yuchi Lian stirred inwardly, and the streak of light immediately landed in her hand.
She swept it with her Divine Sense, and her heart shook violently:
"Someone took away all the Fierce Beasts?"
"That person... was him?!"
The message carried within the light clearly depicted the male mage standing before them.
Yuchi Shu stood beside her. Even without reading the message, she guessed something from her second sister's expression alone.
Both women's gazes flickered as they rapidly considered countermeasures.
Qin Lingxiao, who was returning from Flying Deer City, was equally astonished to see Wang Ba miraculously appear outside the Yuan Magnetic Palace when he should have been tens of thousands of li away.
Amid her astonishment, there was also a trace of joy.
But she immediately noticed the drawn-swords-and-bent-bows tension between Wang Ba and the Yuchi sisters, and understood something.
An unconscious trace of gentleness entered her gaze as she looked at Wang Ba.
But her face immediately turned cold again, and she frowned:
"What are you doing here?"
Wang Ba did not mind her attitude. Shaking his head, he said:
"I escorted a senior from the sect here for Tribulation Crossing, and stopped by to say hello to you."
Qin Lingxiao abruptly asked: