On a desolate island spanning over a hundred miles, there was an underground cave.
Inside the cave stood a teleportation array over a hundred zhang wide. The array suddenly began to tremble, and a dazzling spiritual light shot into the sky, revealing the figures of the Four Seas Sword Venerable and Xie Ying.
They were covered in dust and looked rather battered.
The Four Seas Sword Venerable gave his right hand a shake, sending a vast expanse of blue Sword Qi surging forth and cleaving the teleportation array to pieces.
The Four Seas Sword Venerable had led three Body Integration Cultivators in an assault on the Purple Finch Clan. He had thought that, with the help of an inside contact, everything would go smoothly. Who could have imagined that the Purple Finch Clan had discovered the mole long ago and had merely been waiting for them to walk into the trap?
Relying on his formidable strength, the Four Seas Sword Venerable had slain one Body Integration Cultivator of the Purple Finch Clan, but he had also become surrounded. Two Body Integration Cultivators had died, one of them from the Mystic Azure Sect. They had also killed four Body Integration Cultivators, so their battle results were still fairly impressive.
"If I'd known this would happen, we should've attacked the Gray Quail Clan instead."
Xie Ying spoke regretfully. To escape, she had scrapped two Middle-Grade Heavenly Treasures, suffering grievous losses.
Chen Yueying had let them choose between the Gray Quail Clan and the Purple Finch Clan. The Gray Quail Clan was somewhat stronger than the Purple Finch Clan, so the Four Seas Sword Venerable had chosen to attack the relatively weaker Purple Finch Clan. Who could have expected the Purple Finch Clan to set a trap?
Besides the deaths of two Body