Chapter 81 - I’m Innocent
At a towering ancient tree nearby, a burly man with a bare upper body stood hidden within the leaves, listening clearly to everything that Zhou Wei and the others said.
A cold glint flickered through the burly man’s eyes.
A gust of wind blew by, rustling the wind as the burly man leapt off from the tree swiftly and landed silently. Laying low to the ground, he trawled through the grass on both hands and legs, heading in the direction of Zhou Wei and the rest.
He was perfectly hidden within the grass which was around half the height of an average man.
If one were to look down, they would merely feel like the grass was moving in a straight line due to the wind – no one would be able to tell that it was a person!
“Senior Brother Zhou, should we split up and search?”
“Sounds like a plan. That Su Zimo’s only at Level 5 Qi Condensation. Any of us is enough to capture him.”
“W-Who are you?”
“We are disciples of Ethereal Sect! How dare you attack us! Our sect will definitely not let you off if they know about it!”
Guo Chong, who was the only disciple awake, yelled at the burly man.
The burly man remained silent as he dashed through the forest.
Guo Chong found himself getting more fearful by the moment as he said in trembles, “W-Where are you taking us to?”
“Sir, please let us go.”
“Sir, I know I’m in the wrong now.”
Suddenly, the burly man halted in his tracks and looked down at Guo Chong icily, asking coolly, “What did you do wrong?”
“I-I… I…!”
Guo Chong was stumped by the question.
He had only mentioned it out of nervousness previously but he did not know what he had done wrong!
Guo Chong cursed internally as he did not know where this burly man had spouted out from! Without saying anything, the latter started striking at them and this person was unreasonably strong!
None of their cultivation methods had worked on this burly man at all!
After the burly man stopped in his tracks, he tossed all five of them on the ground and turned to leave without saying anything more.
A look of disbelief spread past Guo Chong’s face.
They were alive?
The burly man did not kill them!
Guo Chong looked around. They were outside the Great Rock Forest right now and he did not know why the burly man had brought them out and left them here before leaving himself.
“Sir, may I know your name and the sect you’re from?” Guo Chong shouted out indignantly.
Suddenly, the burly man stopped in his tracks and turned around before walking towards him once more.
Guo Chong broke into a shudder, wishing that he could slap himself on the mouth as he hurriedly said, “Sir! I really know where I’ve gone wrong this time round! I should not have asked for your name…!”
Arriving before the five of them, the burly man grabbed their storage bags and took away all their spirit stones and elixirs before keeping them in his own storage bag.
Looking at his robbed empty storage bag, Guo Chong wanted to break out in tears.
Snickering, the burly man turned towards Great Rock Forest and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Guo Chong opened his storage bag with shaking hands and dug out a paper crane, writing on it with spirit qi. “We’ve been attacked at Great Rock Forest. The opponent is unknown and extremely strong. Please send reinforcements from the sect!”
Injecting spirit qi to it, the spirit crane spread its wings and transformed into a beam of light, disappearing into the skies.
Guo Chong was injured as well and was unable to carry the other four back, merely able to wait there for the sect’s reinforcements.
Looking at his fellow fainted disciples, he felt despair swallowing him from within.
The thought of his savings for the past few years being robbed completely by some unknown mysterious burly man had him howling out in sadness, “I’m innocent!”