"The Totem Phoenix Clan has appeared again?"
Aboard the warship, the Clan Master of the Totem Dragon Clan stared intently toward the south.
He had personally witnessed the younger generation of the Totem Phoenix Clan just earlier.
Because he had locked onto those youngsters in advance, even though they had concealed themselves, they could not escape his perception.
He had watched them fly southward and quickly enter a barrier.
That barrier was released by a priceless treasure, and even the Clan Master of the Totem Dragon Clan could not see through it. In fact, had he not followed the gaze of the Totem Phoenix Clan's youngsters, he would never have noticed such a barrier existed there.
Clearly, the experts of the Totem Phoenix Clan were all behind that barrier.
"Father, do you know where True Master Yaohe escaped to? Go capture him — he actually set up this kind of array to trap us."
"If it weren't for Chu Feng, we would all be dead in there."
The moment Long Chengyu saw his father, the first thing he did was file a complaint against True Master Yaohe.
"Chengyu, are you certain that True Master Yaohe set up the sacrificial array to use you all for cultivating demonic arts? Could this possibly have been a special trial?" the Clan Master of the Totem Dragon Clan asked.
"It did look like a trial at first, but in the end there was absolutely no benefit. How could that possibly be a trial?" Long Chengyu said.
"Young friend Chu Feng, you truly didn't obtain any benefit?"
"It's not that I don't trust young friend Chu Feng, but… could there have been something he overlooked?" the Clan Master of the Totem Dragon Clan asked.
"I observed carefully, but I truly couldn't detect any benefit — at least not for the time being," Chu Feng said.
"Father, Brother Chu Feng would never lie. It must be that True Master Yaohe who pulled the strings."
"Just go capture him and interrogate him — won't that settle it?" Long Chengyu said.
"Come with me." The Clan Master of the Totem Dragon Clan spoke as he walked toward the interior of the warship.
Seeing this, Chu Feng and the others followed after him.
When they arrived at a room, they found several guest elders invited by the Totem Dragon Clan inside. All of them possessed formidable mastery of barrier arts.
At this moment, they were working together to heal someone.
Upon seeing that person, Chu Feng and the others were quite surprised.
It was none other than True Master Yaohe. Moreover, True Master Yaohe at this moment was extremely weak, as though he were on the verge of death.
"True Master Yaohe — why is he here?"
"How did he end up like this?"
Even Long Chengyu wore a look of surprise upon seeing True Master Yaohe in such a state.
"While you were inside the crane and hadn't come out for a long time, I had already captured True Master Yaohe to interrogate him about the situation."
"But he had no idea what was going on. He said the crane had long since escaped his control — he didn't even know why it had come to this place, nor why it had activated," the Clan Master of the Totem Dragon Clan said.
Once the Clan Master of the Totem Dragon Clan said this, Chu Feng and the others realized that True Master Yaohe's behavior at the beginning had indeed seemed like he didn't know the crane would activate.
"So during all that time, True Master Yaohe was with you the whole time?" Long Chengyu asked.
"He was by my side the entire time. I never once saw him activate the array — that's how I was able to determine he wasn't the one behind it," the Clan Master of the Totem Dragon Clan said.
"Then why did he end up like this?" Chu Feng pointed at the unconscious True Master Yaohe and asked.
True Master Yaohe was not only unconscious at this moment, but his condition was also extremely poor.
His skin was shriveled, and he had been reduced to skin and bones — he looked as though he had been completely hollowed out.