Fan Nan had actually come here as well, but he had concealed himself, even deliberately avoiding the other fierce ghosts.
For a moment, Li Yan could not figure out why. He had no idea why the other party was doing this.
But since Fan Nan had also come here, Li Yan naturally abandoned his plan to deal with Chi Han and immediately switched his target to Fan Nan.
However, Fan Nan had been searching along the river, where ghost creatures often appeared, leaving Li Yan with very few opportunities.
Clearly, Li Yan had been too thorough before, directly wiping out every trace of the two fierce ghosts. This had led Fan Nan and the others to misjudge the situation, believing that the area where the incident had occurred was the "Netherfall River."
That was why they had intensified their search there. Often, after every stretch of distance, a ghost creature would cautiously search the surrounding area...
Only when Li Yan saw Fan Nan choose another area and begin searching along Ghostthorn Mountain did his heart stir. After swiftly flying ahead, he concealed some of the traces.
But he did not conceal them completely. He deliberately left those traces behind to delay Fan Nan's search, so that he could find an opportunity to launch a sneak attack.
Otherwise, if Fan Nan saw nothing at all, he would only think that he himself had overlooked something. Perhaps he would shift his focus back to the Netherfall River.
But this Fan Nan was also quite cunning. Though Li Yan had laid down deadly poison in several places, Fan Nan merely searched while hovering in the air, never drawing close, much less touching anything.
Li Yan could only feel helpless in secret, and after Fan Nan passed by, he still had to retrieve that