Under the collapsed nest, no egg remains intact. If the Morton Tribe intends to target some individuals among them, it is unlikely they would allow others to leave.

Sui Yi glanced at Shang Xiuxun upon hearing this. Her insight was indeed exceptional.

Morton truly harbors ambition—for that divine power.

And for that Wizard and Wan Ge...

The supreme power and the tribe’s material support, Morton surely has no option to choose from.

Sui Yi’s eyes darkened slightly, speaking languidly: "Ultimately, we will know everything once the Snow God Festival comes tomorrow."

Shang Xiuxun felt helpless too, as they were indeed under the other’s thumb, being on their territory.

However...

"Are you staying with me, not planning to return?"

"I fear they have already searched your tent now; if you’re not there, it’s all too obvious."

Shang Xiuxun looked at Sui Yi, not intending to chase him away. In fact, she wished to extract some information from him to escape this anxious situation.

It’s merely that the other might truly get exposed.

In that case, she would have been truly looking in vain.

"I am there," Sui Yi’s eyes lightly smoldered.

"I am in the tent."

Shang Xiuxun was taken aback.

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At the time, outside Sui Yi’s tent, both Morton and Liew Baiyi were present.

Due to the fear of Sui Yi, Liew Baiyi halted his steps dozens of paces away, and Morton, being a person of deep scheming, naturally wouldn’t dare come too close. He too stopped outside, eyeing the curtain.

Expanding within was the dim glow of a furnace, as if those inside were already asleep.

Morton hadn’t yet spoken.

Inside came a cold voice.

"Liew Baiyi..."

Liew Baiyi’s expression paused slightly, he then smiled: "Wu Xie..."

"I didn’t think you’d actually enter the tent."

His expression carried an intriguing mixture—half-smiling, half-doubting.

"What, aren’t you afraid Qi Lian will be angry?"

"Ah, I seem to have forgotten, Qi Lian’s been missing for many years... you won’t find her."

Once he finished speaking, the tent fell into dead silence.

A sword seemed ready to unsheathe, its intense Sword Force penetrating through the curtain’s gap, chilling everyone’s spine there.

Especially Liew Baiyi, as the Sword Qi was directly aimed at him!

And through the slightly lifted curtain gap, he saw that there was another person sitting beside Wu Xie—a woman, although he couldn’t clearly make her out, he could see the shadow cast by the fire, before the curtain closed completely.

And that thread of Qi... hovered at the side.

Morton and Liew Baiyi felt themselves being locked by the Qi Mechanism.

It’s her!

Both Wu Xie and Sui Yi.

Tough to deal with.

Liew Baiyi’s expression tensed slightly, but then suddenly, he laughed, turned around, and left.

Morton, with a thoughtful mind, also smiled and left with others.

A conflict was thus resolved mysteriously.

Dugu Sheng and others looked at Sui Yi’s Mongolian Yurt with deep expressions, intending to chat with the two backs beside him about the situation...

Du Gourou: "You promised not to enter the tent, liar!"

Dugu Mingyue: "Brute... Teacher..."

Well.. Dugu Sheng suddenly felt both joy and sadness, has his nephew straightened up while the niece shows signs of bending!

Inside the tent, Wu Xie looked at the shadow cast by the fire, it was a shadow, yet there was no one by his side.

With a slow curl of his finger, the shadow collected back into his body.

Liew Baiyi, you prided yourself on knowing me thoroughly, yet you failed to anticipate this ability of mine? You prided yourself on knowing Sui Yi thoroughly, yet you did not foresee her being able to lock onto your Qi Mechanism from hundreds of meters away!

On the other side, Morton returned to his tent, looking at the table and floor directly, fragments of paper scattered, he picked up a few pieces and found ink marks still on them.

He curled his lips into a grin.

If this route map does not leak, it will not matter even if that person just now was Sui Yi,

Liew Baiyi apparently thought so too, hence both refrained just in time.

Sui Yi doesn’t wish to alert the enemy, nor do they want to tear open relations now.

Unfortunately, after tonight’s disturbance, quite a few people will likely become vigilant.

"Vigilant or not, tomorrow..." Morton muttered lowly, his face cast in sharp relief by the fire’s echo.

In this world, people who count as figures rarely don’t know martial arts. As the Field Master of the leading racecourse, Shang Xiuxun’s martial arts are quite good, just shy of Minor Grandmaster level, yet still a first-rate hand, hence she holds some reverence for masters like Sui Yi.

Thus, her initial bit of awkward feelings quickly smoothed over, she settled her expression, and spoke in a firm voice: "Does Teacher recognize that man in white?"

Liew Baiyi? That person seems like...

"Hmm... that’s him, Mr. Liew, a strategist of the world."

Shang Xiuxun pondered slightly, considering the leap from strategist to Grandmaster Level master, and even connecting with Snow God Mountain... not to be underestimated.

"And who is Teacher, then?"

She looked toward Sui Yi, her eyes bright and pleasant.

Sui Yi tilted her head slightly, looking at Shang Xiuxun, hmm... having met so many people who could recognize her, suddenly encountering someone who didn’t... felt quite nice.

"I run a pawnshop."

Shang Xiuxun kept silent, such an introduction was truly humble to the core, running a pawnshop...

"A pleasure to meet you." Shang Xiuxun, going with the flow smoothly, softly added: "I raise horses."

Sui Yi: "Hmm... a pleasure to meet you."

And this counts as acquaintance?

Well... somehow the sequence felt a bit reversed. 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮

After the silence, Shang Xiuxun pondered what to converse about with this person.. usually she could chat and laugh with Grandmasters like Song Que about horses, armies, national situations...

But with this person...

Hey, do you know any horses, stallions, mares, stud horses...?

A bit of worldview-shattering.

Music, chess, calligraphy, painting? Slightly disharmonious.

Snow God Mountain? (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation tickets, monthly tickets at Qidian (qidian.com). Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile users please read on m.qidian.com.)