Li Yan immediately explained the situation, and the three women learned that the enemy had noticed something amiss and had actually sent people to where their squad was stationed.
Li Yan also told them that the two cultivators the enemy had dispatched were now temporarily trapped in an array he had secretly laid. Its isolation capabilities were powerful as well, so they would be unable to make any commotion for a while.
Li Yan did not want to say that he had killed another two men. That would let Miao Lan and Lan Yu deduce quite a bit about his strength. If the men were trapped by an array, however, that was simply the array's power.
Even Gong Chenying believed his words. Although she knew Li Yan was extremely formidable in battle, they were very close to the enemy here, so using an array was more reliable. She knew he possessed arrays of extraordinary power.
The three women's expressions changed again. What they had feared had finally happened. The fake Miao Lou and his two companions had never returned, ultimately arousing the enemy's suspicions!
Although those two enemies were trapped in an array, the enemy would soon confirm that something really had gone wrong. Surely the people they had sent out could not go indefinitely without reporting back either?
Then they heard even more terrifying news. The last squad had been almost entirely wiped out. There might still be one survivor, but that person was surrounded by more than ten enemies. Without someone to rescue them, they would merely live a little longer at best.
"Do you know who in this squad has refined a clone?"
Li Yan spoke quickly. He wanted to determine whether the survivor was the squad leader. Otherwise, risking a rescue under these circumstances would bring