Moreover, what astonished everyone was that without exception, the seventeen Spirit Transformation helpers Seven Desires Evil Monk had summoned all wore black conical hats that obscured divine sense, with the words "Cloud Bandits" written upon them.
"Cloud Bandits!"
"Who would have thought Seven Desires Evil Monk actually had ties to the Cloud Bandits and had invited them here to rob the road?"
The cultivators were startled, their eyes filled with wariness.
The Cloud Bandits were a bandit group that had been infamous within the Divine Fire Immortal Domain for over a thousand years. They came without a trace and vanished without a shadow, their reputation utterly foul.
Many people speculated that the Cloud Bandits were a secret association formed by some Spirit Transformation cultivators among the Rogue Cultivators—"gathered, they were great bandits; scattered, they were decent cultivators." Thus, banditry had persisted for years, impossible to truly eradicate.
Wei Tu had once thought this saying no empty rumor.
Now that he was present in person, secretly peering through his Chaotic Calamity Evil Eye, he had already recognized several Spirit Transformation cultivators he had met at the Little Solitary Mountain exchange gathering years ago.
In particular, the two great Spirit Transformation cultivators who had left a deep impression on him at the Little Pill Assembly, sighing that the "poor pill master" had failed to refine the Heavenly Star Pill and Azure Spirit Salve, were also among them.
The Rogue Cultivators of Little Solitary Mountain accounted for no less than eighty percent of the Cloud Bandits here!
"That made sense. Heavenly Star Pills and Azure Spirit Salve were difficult to obtain. Aside from robbing cultivators of major sects and perhaps getting lucky enough to acquire them, it was extraordinarily difficult to obtain them through painstaking cultivation and trade alone..."
Wei Tu's eyes flickered.