After entering the secret cavern, Wusitu and his four companions really did search for Li Yan and Zhao Min, but the entrance opened onto three different directions.
They sent people to search in each direction. After traveling some distance without finding any trace of the pair, they could only give up for the time being.
In fact, the direction they eventually took really was the same one Li Yan had chosen!
However, Wusitu and the others had already wasted time on their search.
Moreover, although Li Yan was heading in the same direction, he had never been here before, so his route differed somewhat from the one Wusitu and the others had chosen, where cultivators and Demon Beasts appeared less frequently.
As a result, the two parties never crossed paths.
As An Die spoke, she tossed out a pale-red formation disk the size of a palm, then swiftly danced her fair, lotus-root arms through the air, leaving a broad swath of snow-white afterimages.
As she moved and formed hand seals, a translucent, pale-red curtain of light slowly rose from those afterimages, quickly enveloping all five of them.
The instant they were enveloped, the curtain of light dispersed, and all five figures vanished along with it. Even from below, there was nothing to be seen.
Above their previous position, the five figures quickly reappeared inside an invisible dome of light.
Within the dome, the gaunt, dark, withered old Daoist spoke again.
"With Fellow Daoist An Die's formation concealing us, unless a Nascent Soul Cultivator investigates, those Blackcloud Frostcondensation Insects won't detect our ambush even if they've reached the peak of late third rank."
The others nodded in agreement.
They had invited An Die along precisely for her skill with formations. Most of them had fought this seductive enchantress before.
Although An