Suddenly, Bai Xifeng narrowed her sharp eyes slightly. Her piercing gaze shifted away from the ongoing battle and locked directly onto the dense, shadowed forest line standing far behind the attackers.
Beside her, Cerberus's three massive heads also simultaneously turned toward the exact same patch of dark woods, low, menacing growls rumbling deep within his three throats.
Someone... someone vastly stronger than these small-fry assassins had just quietly arrived in the treeline, silently observing the battle from the shadows without revealing an inch of their aura. After silently watching the young cultivators fight for a few intense moments, that hidden, powerful presence quietly slipped away into the deep forest, vanishing without a trace.
