Not long after the four departed, Eastern Wilderness reinforcements arrived at the scene.
Three Eastern Wilderness cultivators, all at the Twelfth Floor of Qi Gathering.
When they saw the artifact in the Eastern Wilderness traitor's sleeve that had failed to activate, they exchanged glances, suspicion showing in their eyes.
This spirit treasure needed only a very short time to activate. By all rights, even if he had come under suspicion, he should have been able to activate it.
Unless there was only one possibility.
Tiger Chasing had known long ago that this man was a traitor. After completing the decapitation mission, they had suddenly struck and killed him alongside the target.
"Turning the enemy's own scheme against them, killing two birds with one arrow—Tiger Chasing knew this man's identity. Do we still pursue them?" the man on the left asked.
"Pursue them. Why wouldn't we?"
The Eastern Wilderness cultivator in the center, the strongest among them, said, "They aren't the only ones with intelligence and arrangements. Don't forget the true purpose of this journey."
"That's right. We can't let a white deer die for nothing."
As the man on the right spoke, he took out a compass-shaped spirit treasure. After it absorbed the spiritual energy lingering here, it pointed in the direction Zhao Qi and the others had retreated.
The three figures flickered away at once, chasing after them.
Because of the enormous disparity in cultivation between the two sides, the three Eastern Wilderness cultivators caught sight of the backs of Tiger Chasing's four-man squad after pursuing them for less than half an hour.
However, because they had taken the shortcut Zhao Qi had pointed out, they had already left the Eastern Wilderness front line and entered the combat zone between the two sides ahead of time.
"The combat zone