A middle Heaven stage female cultivator seemed to have seen through their leader’s intention. She hastily jumped in and said loudly, “No! Adding him to our team won’t do much to improve our battle prowess. He’s too weak! His cultivation base is lower than any of ours. What will change if we let him join us?

“If we really run into two fourth grade spirit beasts at the same time, we’d still get killed. What can he do?”

The woman protested strongly, as she was the one who had firmly objected to the idea of marching deeper into the forest in the first place.

Nie Tian frowned as he looked at her with a measuring gaze.

After secretly observing the six of them for days, he had already obtained a rather thorough understanding of their names, strength, and relationships with each other.

The woman’s name was Lu Yan, and she was cautious by nature. During her previous exploration trip to this dense forest, she and her team had encountered danger, and many of her companions had been killed.

That time, she and her team had marched into deeper parts of the forest...