It didn’t take long for the various powers to form groups amongst themselves.
There were several small groups that decided to cooperate between two or three different sects or powers. Then there were the large groups that were cooperations between five and up to ten different sects or powers.
Of course, there weren’t that many of these large groups since there were only so many of these sects or powers here.
There were only three of these large groups that formed in the end, gathering over twenty of these large sects or powers.
Once they had formed their groups, they didn’t hesitate to enter the waterfall to follow Bi Qing.
However, as soon as they went in, they found that Bi Qing was already standing there waiting for them.
Everyone couldn’t help revealing awkward looks, except for Lin Fan and Mu Bao Bao who were still watching from outside. They, or rather Lin Fan was currently watching everything that was happening inside the cave through Greeny’s puppets.
While Mu Bao Bao wasn’t able to see anything of what was happening, she still silently stood there by Lin Fan’s side.
That was the trust that she had in him.
After seeing all of these groups come in, Bi Qing just stood there with a calm smile on her face as if she wasn’t afraid of them.
Even though technically, she was completely surrounded by several hundred people.
But at the same time, these people were all wary of her.
No one had been able to see the limit of Bi Qing’s power, so they didn’t dare rashly make a move since they weren’t certain that they would win in the first place.
As they stood there staring at each other, there was an awkward silence that filled the air.
But that silence was broken in the end by Bi Qing who suddenly said, “You can all come, but if you get in my way, I won’t show any mercy.”
After she finished saying this, she turned to head down the tunnel, leaving them all standing there with stunned looks on their faces.
Not a single person had expected her to say something like this, especially with how she had acted the entire time. But once they reacted to what she had said, they couldn’t help looking at her back that was getting further away with even more shocked looks.
There were many people that had looks on their faces like they couldn’t believe what she had just said, but they also didn’t have time to think about it. They knew that she was already making her way to that room down there and once she was there…she would open the path forward.
If they missed this timing because of their hesitation, they wouldn’t be able to live with themselves.
The same was the case with Lin Fan and Mu Bao Bao who were waiting outside.
Lin Fan had also been caught off guard when he heard this, but he couldn’t help revealing a smile.
As expected, he really couldn’t get a read on this Bi Qing.
Every single thing that she did went against the norm and caught him off guard.
First she showed her strength by battling the Iron Demon Sect group, but then she allowed the others to follow her.
Of course, when he thought about it, he couldn’t help feeling that it made sense.𝑂𝓥𝐋xt.𝑐𝑶𝓂
What she did before was show off her power so that she could make it easier to negotiate with these sects and powers when she needed to.
Since they had already reached an agreement and they were heading in, there was no need for them to stay outside any longer.
Lin Fan had already made sure that no one could see him and Mu Bao Bao with the illusion spell on. He had tested this when they followed Bi Qing here earlier.
Not to mention that everyone would be focused on Bi Qing and the treasure that was ahead of them, so they wouldn’t be paying any attention to them.
As they were about to head in though, Mu Bao Bao hesitated for a second.
Lin Fan immediately noticed this and asked, “What’s wrong? Did you sense something?”
Mu Bao Bao hesitated to speak at first, but she shook her head in the end and said, “It’s nothing.”
However, even though she said this, she couldn’t help having a bad feeling about this place.
This feeling had appeared when they had been heading to this place, but Mu Bao Bao had ignored it the entire time. However, when they got closer, she felt that bad feeling getting stronger.
It was a feeling of they shouldn’t be here.
She couldn’t help thinking of the signal that had been sent to her that night…
But since Lin Fan wanted to go in, she would trust him and follow him in.
They quickly made their way through the waterfall and fell to the back of the group heading down after Bi Qing.
When they reached the bottom, they found that Bi Qing was already there waiting for them. However, they found that she wasn’t alone this time. There was already a group of cloaked figures that were there waiting for her.
Everyone couldn’t help raising their guards when they saw this.
Bi Qing alone was already hard enough to deal with and now there were a bunch of unknown people here with her…this wasn’t a good sign.
One of the young masters, namely the young master who used lightning came forward to ask, “Miss Bi, this is?”
As for why he was the one that came forward, his group was the group of ten sects that came together and his sect was the leader of that group. While he wasn’t the strongest out of the seeded contestants, his sect was one of the leaders of the Righteous Path Sects, so his sect had quite a high position that made others fall under him.
Bi Qing looked at him with a calm smile and said, “Just like how you’re escorted by elders of your sect, these are my escorts.”
As soon as they heard this, everyone couldn’t help giving a gulp as their suspicions were confirmed.
They could already guess that Bi Qing’s guards were stronger than her, but Bi Qing alone was enough to pressure them…that meant that they wouldn’t be having a good time exploring this place with them.
Still, it wasn’t as if they could do anything.
They couldn’t even do anything to Bi Qing alone.
So they just went back to their place behind Bi Qing and waited for her to open the door.
But Bi Qing just stood there as two of the cloaked figures from her group moved forward towards the door. As they approached, they started looking over the door, as if they were trying to find something.
While this was happening, the members of the other sect’s groups also came forward to take a look at the door.
While doing this, they made sure to leave space between them and Bi Qing’s guards just in case something happened.
But in the end, nothing happened between them as everyone was focused on the door in front of them.
During this time, Bi Qing also turned to look in a specific direction.
There really wasn’t anything there as far as the other people could see, but…the location that she was looking in was right where Lin Fan and Mu Bao Bao were standing.
Lin Fan couldn’t help knitting his brows as he looked back at her and his brows knitted even more when he saw her smiling at him.
He had already known that she could see him back at the arena, so he had made sure to hide in the most obscure place in this location. However, even then, she had been able to find him with a single glance…
Just how did she do it?
Moreover, what reason did she have to look in his direction like this?
It was almost as if she had some kind of intentions towards him.
“Could it be that she’s in love with me?”
Lin Fan couldn’t help thinking to himself, but of course that was just a joke. After all, they had never met before and she had never even seen his real face, so how could she fall in love with him?
So he knew that it had to be something different.
As for what it was…he had no ideas.
After the cloaked figures searched the door for a bit, they came back to Bi Qing and gave her what seemed to be a nod.
Bi Qing gave a nod back before walking forward towards the door and raising her hand. As she raised her hand, there was something that appeared there.
It was the token that she had received as a reward.
When this token appeared, everyone turned their attention to it.
However, the one that focused on it the most was…Mu Bao Bao because she recognized this token…It was the token that had been given to that person who had left the Love Sect all those years ago.
She hadn’t been able to recognize it before because she had been too far away from this token before. But now that she was seeing it close up, she immediately recognized it.
Still, it wasn’t as if she could do anything about it right now.
Bi Qing brought the token right up in front of the door, bringing it over to where the slot on the door was.
As soon as it was brought over, there was some kind of attraction that pulled the token out of her hand and into the slot.