After Patriarch Snowy Peak left, more than a dozen Void domain Water Moon Sect experts walked out of the cabins.

Fan Kai, Zhao Luofeng, and the others also surfaced to greet Xie Qian and his people.

In perfect bearing, Xie Qian returned a salute to every one of them.

Then, he smiled and said, “I thought they were disciples from the Divine Seal Sect.”

He had long since sensed the presence of Fan Kai and the others, but had assumed they were Divine Seal Sect disciples who had been arranged to protect Jing Rou and Duan Shihu during this trip.

Everyone had a good, friendly talk.

From their talk, Nie Tian learned that Xie Qian from the Water Moon Sect wasn’t passing by as he had claimed to be. Instead, he had come with the sole purpose of pressuring the Heavenly Ice Sect so that Nie Tian would be able to leave with Fan Kai and the others.

Xie Qian had done this because he had wanted to thank Nie Tian for helping his children gain significant loot and growth in the Shatter Battlefield, and he hoped to establish...