Chapter 1339: Suspected

"A Xing, you're really bold! Still causing trouble over this kind of thing? We almost got into trouble!" A Mu started scolding A Xing from afar.

"Come back here right now!" he finally ordered.

A Xing looked at Ye Liuyun feeling wronged, meaning to ask: "You said you wouldn't let me go back, did you?"

Ye Liuyun then spoke for A Xing: "The allied tribes are jointly hunting us; there might be another wave. If we let A Xing go back now, she could be captured midway and used as a hostage."

"Since she's already out, let her stay with us! I'll take responsibility for her safety!"

A Mu thought about it, and indeed there was this danger, so he agreed as well.

"Alright then! But now that you're out, who will take care of treating the wounded?" A Mu asked.

"Now the tribe has expanded, we have a few more healers, and I'm not needed! I want to follow you and fight together from now on!" A Xing said stubbornly.

A Mu gave her a glance and didn't say anything else.

A Xing's cultivation level was the lowest among them, but she had indeed improved quickly recently, already reaching Body Refinement Sixth Level.

He didn't know that it was because Ye Liuyun had given A Xing plenty of cultivation resources that enabled her rapid progress; he thought A Xing simply had a bit more talent than ordinary people.

Moreover, A Mu found Ye Liuyun mysterious, so he also believed Ye Liuyun could protect A Xing's safety.

Their thinking was simple: Ye Liuyun is one of us, so he would never harm us. Even if he had some secrets, it was just inconvenient to tell them.

"How strange—what was that just now? Or who was helping us?"

"In that black fog, there seemed to be a person—what is that? Is it the Grim Reaper?"

Along the way, during rests, the tribespeople were all discussing what had just happened.

A Xing also learned the details of the situation, then ran back to ask Ye Liuyun: "Did you know beforehand that someone would come to rescue us?"

"How would I know?" Ye Liuyun retorted.

"You wouldn't say that if you didn't know. Moreover, you never showed any tension from start to finish!" A Xing didn't believe him.

"I'm just like that—I never get nervous!" Ye Liuyun forced a relaxed laugh.

"I've heard that many scions of great clans secretly have guardians. Could you be one of those clan heirs with a guardian too?" A Xing pressed.

"I really don't know; I can't remember anything at all." Ye Liuyun again used amnesia as an excuse.

"Anyway, they're all saying that black fog and the person inside are related to you." A Xing referred to the tribespeople whispering about Ye Liuyun.

Ye Liuyun had of course already heard what they were saying; he just pretended not to know.

"If they want to think that way, what can I do?" Ye Liuyun said indifferently.

A Xing looked at Ye Liuyun; this time she really suspected Ye Liuyun was hiding something.

"I was so far from the group that even Chief A Mu didn't notice me—how did you spot me?" she suddenly asked.

Her question left Ye Liuyun momentarily speechless.

But then he took out a corpse of an Azure Hawk and showed it to A Xing.

"What does that mean?" A Xing asked, puzzled.

"They discovered you!" Ye Liuyun thought, relieved to have this evidence; otherwise it would really be hard to explain.

"Azure Hawk? They discovered me—how do you know that?" A Xing became even more confused.

"Didn't I tell you my eyesight is good? I noticed they had been watching us and even circled above you, so I spotted you." Ye Liuyun explained.

"Really?" A Xing still wasn't fully convinced, but Ye Liuyun's explanation was plausible.

Ye Liuyun quickly nodded: "Of course it's true!"

They often hunt, and the flight of raptors can indeed serve as a kind of signal.

However, she had never paid attention to whether Azure Hawks were circling overhead, so she couldn't confirm whether Ye Liuyun's statement was true or false.

"Alright then! If you remember anything, tell me and don't keep it from me!" A Xing told Ye Liuyun.

She didn't suspect Ye Liuyun would harm them; Ye Liuyun had done many things for their tribe, making it impossible for him to do so.

She merely worried that Ye Liuyun was hiding something from them.

"Okay!" Ye Liuyun, seeing he had temporarily gotten away with it, also felt relieved.

A Xing took the Azure Hawk, intending to have Ye Liuyun build a fire to roast it, but she suddenly noticed the hawk had no wounds.

"How did this Azure Hawk die?" she asked Ye Liuyun, puzzled.

"I didn't kill them! They fell from the sky on their own. I also suspect the person in the black fog might have killed them!" Ye Liuyun simply blamed everything on the black fog.

At that moment, A Mu and a few other tribespeople, hearing this, came over to inspect and found it quite strange.

"I've heard that experts have a killing method using the Soul to slay people. It seems the one who saved us must be an expert!" A Mu said.

"Then why can't we use the Soul to kill people!" A Xing countered.

"That's surely because our cultivation techniques are too low-level!" A Mu said bitterly.

After he said that, A Xing stopped pressing Ye Liuyun and instead had him roast the Azure Hawk to eat.

Ye Liuyun also felt their cultivation techniques were too poor—not just their tribe, but others as well.

But he had never found an opportunity to help them improve; doing so too obviously would expose his identity.

He had originally planned to go into the city this time to see if he could buy some advanced cultivation techniques from the merchants' guild to bring back for them.

After Ye Liuyun and A Xing finished eating, and everyone had rested enough, they set off together.

Along the way, someone even started teasing A Xing, saying she was chasing after Ye Liuyun.

A Xing and they got into a playful tussle, but she was quite pleased, beaming with spring-like joy, and didn't even deny it.

Seeing this, Ye Liuyun secretly felt uneasy.

"What if, upon entering the city this time, I find a suitable place to cultivate in peace and just not come back? That way I won't delay her!" he thought to himself.

Anyway, it's the same wherever he cultivates. In the tribe, there are actually many affairs, plus he has to hide his realm, and sooner or later he'll slip up.

If he were in the city, he might encounter experts, could spar with them, and wouldn't have to cultivate so monotonously.

Ye Liuyun thought about this and also felt that it was indeed possible to consider leaving; at least leaving now is better than leaving after exposing himself.

However, he currently knows relatively little about the world's information and doesn't know what the situation inside the city is like; the people in the tribe don't know much about the city either, so everything must wait until he enters the city, learns the situation, then makes a decision.

But before he leaves, he will definitely help these simple folk, so that they will face less danger in the future and live more prosperously.