Alas, Fate Toyed with Them

Outside the secret realm, in the area guarded by the Shadow Moon Sect, the atmosphere was grave and oppressive.

Wu Xu wore a solemn expression as he looked uneasily toward the secret realm.

A long day and night had already passed, yet the secret realm remained like a stagnant pool, so silent that it made one's scalp prickle.

This eerie silence was abnormal to the extreme.

By all reason, no matter what method had been used to break open the secret realm's entrance, it should not have been this utterly soundless.

Could something have gone wrong inside the secret realm? Wu Xu could not help but imagine the worst.

Yet he did not dare share the worries in his heart with anyone. Even before the Shadow Moon Sect's most senior elders, he did not dare trust them lightly at this moment.

Ever since learning that news of the secret realm had leaked, he had begun to suspect that there was a traitor within the Shadow Moon Sect's ranks.

As for who that traitor was, he only had a rough guess in his heart and could not be completely certain.

Moreover, just how many spies the other factions had planted within the Shadow Moon Sect was an even more unfathomable unknown.

He knew well that if he rashly dealt with the people he suspected, he would certainly alert the enemy.

By then, digging out the remaining spies would only become even more difficult. Those people would surely hide themselves even deeper.

Therefore, he decided to wait until the matter of the secret realm was over before slowly separating them out and conducting a thorough investigation.

Wu Xu rapidly considered how he could avoid alerting the enemy while still learning the secret realm's exact situation.

After thinking it over carefully, delight suddenly