Anticipating a fierce battle in Guizhou, the higher-ups of the Martial Alliance dispatched a special force consisting of Zhou Xuchuan and other experts.0

Since Guizhou could explode at any moment, they decided to send only the fastest of them—Zhou Xuchuan.0

Yes, his lightness technique was paces ahead of the others, but his qi reserves were seemingly infinite as well, so there was bound to be a difference in speed and endurance.0

As the pacification of the Righteous and Evil Alliance was still ongoing, the special force dispatched by the Martial Alliance passed by Dongting Lake, a Yangtze River basin in Hunan, northeast of Guizhou.0

Dongting Lake was the second-largest freshwater lake in the Central Plains and was famous for its beautiful scenery. However, they hadn't come all this way for leisure purposes.0

It was faster for them to ride a boat from here and travel using the current of the Yangtze River than to continue on horses from Anhui. 0

They planned to alight at the port located at the southern end of Dongting Lake and ride a horse or use lightness techniques to go to Guizhou in the southwest. 0

However, this journey wasn't as simple as it sounded.0

The current of the Yangtze was already dangerous, but a swarm of bandits stopped the special force as well.0

"Do you happen to know who we are?" Duan Lihua asked with a smile, slightly lifting her bamboo hat. Unlike her...0