"Vivienne, there are a lot of people following us."
As soon as they left the inn, Huan Mao sensed several shadows trailing them.
"They are all cultivators at the Rong Tian Realm," Feng Ming added.
"Then let them follow," Chu Lingwei said with a smile. Since they were willing to follow, she had some questions for them.
Chu Lingwei was not in a hurry, and slowly walked north.
"Fellow Daoist, are you going into the mountain range?" Just as she was about to leave the seaside town, a middle-aged cultivator blocked Chu Lingwei's path. "Do you need to form a team?"
"No need."
Chu Lingwei replied coldly. This person appeared to be at the Ling Lun Realm, but was actually a Rong Tian Realm expert. How could she, a Ling Lun Realm cultivator, team up with him?
"It's very dangerous to enter the mountain range. If you go in alone, it will be a dead end," the middle-aged man said, not angered by Chu Lingwei's attitude, but instead offering good advice. "If you team up with us, you might be able to return alive."
"I am not alone." Chu Lingwei smiled faintly at the middle-aged man and walked past him.
"Vivienne, we're out of the seaside town." Huan Mao hadn't looked back, but he had been paying attention to the movements behind them. Those people were following them closely, which annoyed him.
Chu Lingwei stepped onto her spiritual sword and, with Huan Mao and Feng Ming, flew on her sword.
Since they thought she was a sword cultivator, she would let them think so.
Chu Lingwei flew forward at her fastest speed, and sensed with her divine consciousness that the people behind her were also quickly catching up. A smile played on her lips. They truly had no intention of letting her go.
"Huan Mao, pick a spot. I want to see who has been following us."
Huan Mao's voice was filled with joy. These people were so annoying. They had been following them for three days and still had no intention of giving up. He would deal with them shortly.
Feng Ming turned around, staring at the people following them with anger in her eyes. How dare they plot against Vivienne? She would deal with them soon.
A quarter of an hour later, Chu Lingwei's figure disappeared from her original spot.
"Where did she go?" A Rong Tian Realm cultivator stopped where Chu Lingwei had disappeared, his eyes filled with disbelief. How could the person he had been tracking suddenly vanish?
"Could she have run away?" The cultivator next to him also sounded uncertain. That cultivator was only at the Ling Lun Realm. She couldn't possibly have evaded their tracking as Rong Tian Realm cultivators, unless she possessed a great treasure.
Thinking of this, both of them felt a surge of excitement. This was a great treasure!
"Send a message back and have them come find her," the first male cultivator spoke. When he saw this young cultivator in the street, he felt that her identity was not simple.
Chu Lingwei listened to their conversation, and her eyes showed disappointment. It seemed they all thought of her as a plump sheep.
"Are there others behind us?"
"No, they aren't together." Huan Mao nodded.
"Let them meet first, and see if they recognize each other." Chu Lingwei knew that there was more than one group following her.
Huan Mao nodded vigorously. Several Dharma seals appeared and struck the positions where they were standing. Three groups of people immediately appeared before the others.
"Who are you?" The first two cultivators looked shocked at the people who suddenly appeared.
"Kill."
A man wearing a bamboo hat let out a light hum. The sword in his hand flew out with his words. The five people in front of him immediately fell to the ground, and a demonic energy emanated from them.
"He's actually a demon."
Chu Lingwei's expression turned grim as she looked at the man before her. His cultivation was very high.
"Vivienne, this person is very dangerous." Huan Mao's face was grave.
"Is there a way to trap him?"
As long as this person was trapped within a barrier, Chu Lingwei would have a way to deal with him.
"Yes."
Chu Lingwei appeared in front of the man. He showed no surprise in his eyes and quietly watched her.
"I'll help you kill them."
"Who are you?" Chu Lingwei glanced at the bodies of the five people on the ground, which turned into a black mist and disappeared, leaving no trace. She was secretly shocked. This man should know her.
"Naturally, I am the one who will kill you."
The man's voice suddenly became sharp, and streams of demonic energy surrounded Chu Lingwei.
Chu Lingwei retreated quickly. The purple bell in her hand flew out, blocking the man's attack. She channeled spiritual energy into the Ice Jade Frost Sword in her hand and struck towards the man's face.
Xuan Tian Burning Fire.
Nine Heavens Nine Styles.
Two streams of spiritual energy simultaneously attacked the man. The man was stunned for a moment, clearly not expecting the spiritual energy Chu Lingwei unleashed to be so lethal.
He wants to escape.
Not a chance.
Feng Ming would not give the man any opportunity to escape. Her body enlarged, blocking the man's path, and she spewed netherworld fire onto him.
The man was powerless to resist and was struck heavily to the ground. His black clothes were burned away by the netherworld fire.
An unfamiliar face, with the distinctive markings of a demon.
He was undoubtedly a demon.
"Speak, why do you want to kill me?" Chu Lingwei approached. The demonic energy on him was slowly dissipating. If it continued like this, he would soon die.
"I didn't expect you to be so powerful." The demon man raised his head, his right hand slowly clenching.
"I advise you not to bother. You can't escape." Chu Lingwei saw the demon's small movement and a stream of spiritual energy snapped his right hand, causing his demonic energy to surge out even faster. "My patience is limited. Speak, who sent you to kill me?"
The demon man remained silent, closing his eyes and waiting to die.
"Vivienne, if he won't speak, why don't I burn him to death?" Feng Ming was very angry that the man wouldn't talk.
"Burn him, along with his soul."
Chu Lingwei took a step back and watched the demon man burn into nothingness, not even ashes remaining.
"Let's go."
There was no trace of demonic energy left in the space. Chu Lingwei summoned her flying artifact, and the few of them sat on the artifact, heading towards the mountain range.
"Vivienne, why are there demons following you?" Huan Mao was very confused. Vivienne had never been an enemy of demons.
"Perhaps he didn't start tracking me here." Qing Yue had told me that even if these people didn't have the spiritual domain poison, they would be targeted as soon as they left that place.
Now she had to be even more careful.
"Vivienne means that we've been followed since we left the Cultivation Academy?" Feng Ming's eyes widened, disbelieving. "But we didn't sense anything."
"If it was a Sovereign Realm mighty being, how could we possibly sense them?" Huan Mao snorted, giving Feng Ming a disdainful look and proudly turning his head, unwilling to speak to her.
"Mao Mao, see how I deal with you."
Feng Ming was angered by Huan Mao's attitude and jumped onto him, beginning to beat him up.
Chu Lingwei watched the two bickering. When did Huan Mao start disliking Feng Ming? It seemed to be around the time they returned to the Cultivation Academy.
Feng Ming saw Chu Lingwei staring at her, trembled, and immediately landed two punches on Huan Mao.