'Something has gone terribly wrong.' Taegong looked over his shoulder again.
The forest appeared peaceful to him. There were no pursuing cultivators, and the surrounding Immortal Qi showed no obvious disturbances. Nevertheless, he could not shake the feeling that someone was watching him.
He increased his pace and the other masked cultivators followed. None of them noticed the black scaled white eyed serpent moving silently among the branches behind them. Xiao Yin's pale eyes blended with the faint light filtering through the canopy.
Her vertical pupils remained fixed upon the nervous elder.
Although she could not identify him through his concealed aura, Little Shrubby's confirmation had removed any doubt. And now that she knew which group contained Taegong, she had no intention of letting him escape.
'So this is the one who caused Master trouble.' Her gaze grew colder.
