Bi Qing raised a brow when she saw this, but that expression quickly disappeared.
There were many thoughts that quickly passed through her mind before she turned her attention back to Lei Feng.
Lei Feng had been standing there waiting for Bi Qing’s answer to his suggestion, but the look on his face showed that he wasn’t really interested.
He had already made an assumption about Bi Qing’s power, so he really wasn’t that invested in bringing her into the team. It was fine if she went off on her own since there were too many grudges between her and the members that he had already gathered.
But he would never turn down another person, which was why he waited.
After a long period of silence, Bi Qing finally walked over to the side and sat down with the cloaked figure near her.
When Lei Feng saw this, he understood what her answer was and walked back to his own group.
Since she was willing to sit down with them here, it meant that she was willing to work with them for now.
Since she was willing to work with them, there was nothing else that he had to say.
So he just turned around and left her there.
After being left alone, Bi Qing turned to look right at me, as if she was waiting for me to explain.
I revealed a bitter smile before coming closer and explaining the situation in a small voice.
She looked at me with one brow raised as if she was wondering how I had found all this out, but I didn’t say anything. Of course, there was no doubt about the information that I passed to her which I appreciated.
It seemed that at the very least, she was committed to this partnership.
After hearing what these groups had planned, she quickly came up with the plan of…sitting there and watching.
It wasn’t hard to guess what Bi Qing was planning.
She also wanted to check out the areas of highly concentrated spiritual energy, so if they were willing to go there and be her lab rats, there was no reason for her to reject this. She would just go along with them and let them take the fall.
After all, they were all still covered in that powder.
Both she and Lin Fan could see that they were still all marked with the powder, so they knew that they could use them as bait if anything happened.
Time passed and the two groups that had been out came back.
One of them came back alone and the other group came back with two other groups.
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When they came back and saw Bi Qing, their reactions were interesting.
They were scared of her at first, but seeing that she only had a single follower with her…they looked at her the same way that Lei Feng had looked at her.
It was clear that they completely underestimated her because she was all alone.
Once these two were back, everyone stood up at once and gathered together.
It was only Bi Qing who was still sitting there, watching them all, as if she wasn’t interested in what they were saying.
Seeing that Bi Qing didn’t come over, they just ignored her and went on with their meeting. But at the same time, they did give her a bit of respect as they raised their voice so that she could hear everything.
Just like Lin Fan had told her, their plan was to explore the area of concentrated spiritual energy.
They would just be waiting for death if they sat here doing nothing, so they wanted to gather together to search that place. There might be a way out of this Minor World in that place, so it was better than doing nothing.
After they finished discussing their plan and their formation, they all turned to look at Bi Qing.
If she wasn’t willing to cooperate with them…then they couldn’t do anything to her.
They were all scared of her individual power and they didn’t want to create any conflict with her since that would just hurt them.
But to their relief, Bi Qing suddenly stood up and walked to the back of their formation.
It seemed like she was willing to follow them, though she wasn’t willing to follow their plan.
In their plan, Bi Qing was supposed to take the middle as part of the action squad so that she would be able to react to anything that happened. She was one of the strongest here, which everyone accepted, but she clearly wasn’t willing to use her strength for them.
As for Bi Qing, she knew that it would be bad for her to stand right in the middle of their formation.
As the only person who wasn’t marked by the powder, being trapped in the middle of a group of people marked with the powder was dangerous. If they completely surrounded her and she had no way out, she would be caught up in the fight.
So of course she wouldn’t allow herself to be in that situation.
No one could do anything to Bi Qing, so they just had to accept that she would be at the back.
After they left the cave, the first thing that they did was send one member of each group out to scout.
That was the benefit of having many different groups together since it was a gathering of people with many different talents. Each group would have a dedicated scout, so they could use that scout to check out the area.
The more scouts, the more area that they could check out and the safer that they would be.
With all of these scouts relaying information, they were able to pick up on the same thing that Lin Fan had picked up on.
They had noticed that the spirit beasts were wandering around in patterns, as if they were patrolling.
After noticing this, they became much more confident about their chances of making it to where they needed to go.
But there was still a problem…
As they came closer and closer, there were more and more spirit beasts that gathered. It reached a certain point where there wasn’t a single safe path to the area of concentrated spiritual energy.
As they were hesitating, Lin Fan made his move.
He had still been searching the area with Greeny’s puppets. As he searched the area, he found that there was actually one path that they could take.
However, it was far away and it was clearly a deliberate path left by the enemy and that it would lead into a trap.
Still, that wasn’t up to him to decide since he couldn’t interact with these people in the first place. He would just tell Bi Qing and let her decide.
That was the benefit of having a competent partner.
As soon as Bi Qing heard what Lin Fan had to say, she revealed a faint smile.
Lin Fan couldn’t help shaking his head in pity for the other people here…he knew that Bi Qing had some kind of plan for them.
As these groups were trying to figure out what to do, Bi Qing suddenly said, “Look to the west.”
All of these people were caught off guard by what Bi Qing suddenly said.
They looked at her with doubtful looks as if they didn’t believe what she said. However, seeing the casual look on her face, they eventually still sent their scouts out in the direction that she pointed out.
After a long while where their doubt built up even more, they finally found the same path that Lin Fan had found.
After finding it, they couldn’t help giving Bi Qing even stranger looks.
It was as if they couldn’t believe that what she said had turned out to be true.
Bi Qing just stood there with a calm look on her face.
However, it wasn’t as if they all immediately jumped in this path. They weren’t fools, so if Lin Fan could figure out that this was a trap, they would be able to figure it out as well.
The only problem was that even if they had figured it out…there was no other choice for them.
The only choices that they had now was to take this path that was most likely a trap or stay here forever and be hunted down like prey.
Neither option sounded good, but there was one where they controlled their own fate and one where they would have no control over anything. There was no need to ask which one they preferred.
The only other thing that they had to worry about now was…Bi Qing’s stance.
She had helped them find this path to their goal, but what would she do when it turned out to be a trap.
If they were to be trapped by the spirit beasts and Bi Qing at the same time, it would be a disaster for them.
Bi Qing could guess what they were thinking and actually took the lead on this matter.
She went to the head of the group and led the way for them.
When she walked ahead without them, all of them were shocked, but they quickly followed her.
Since she was willing to take the lead, there was nothing else for them to say.
In a worst case scenario, they could just hide behind her or use her as bait as they escaped.
It was just too bad that they didn’t know about the powder that they had been marked with…