Step, step, step...
Just as the tension in the field was reaching a boiling point, a series of orderly and urgent footsteps suddenly came from the outskirts. Immediately, the surrounding crowd automatically parted to make way, revealing a team of distinctly uniformed guards.
"The Refining Cloud Mountain guards have arrived. I suppose there won't be a fight now, will there?"
Among them, a sharp-eyed Meridian Refining Master of Earth Rank Middle Level immediately noticed those neatly aligned guards, showing a slightly disappointed expression and murmuring to himself.
With that person's reminder, others also recognized the Refining Cloud Mountain guards maintaining the trade fair and promptly shifted their gaze over.
No matter what, this was, after all, the territory of Refining Cloud Mountain. Had those guards not come, it would have been one thing, but since they appeared here, it meant they had detected the disturbance and intended to intervene.
