Little Mist's Identity

Xiao Ran had yet to stand firm on Sword-Tempering Mountain when he saw a notification pop up in the chat group, suddenly causing a buzzing in his head and a bizarre sense of dizziness.

This dizziness came from the instantaneous intersection between a distant, far-off end and reality.

It felt just like the wife you married in a video game suddenly knocking on your front door.

As expected of a bunch of saviors, the promptness of their actions left people stunned and caught off guard.

Looking at Sword-Tempering Mountain where the rocks were like walls and the vegetation hung upside down, Xiao Ran dazedly felt a sense of piercing through the cruelty of the world of the strong.

The name Little Mist sounded cute and pitiful, and she spoke so nicely in the chat group, but how could her style of doing things be so terrifying?

Xiao Ran thought to himself that if this were outside the Mountain-Guarding Grand Array, he might have been quietly obliterated by the gray mist without anyone knowing.

Just now in Ten Thousand Beasts Valley, the Sewing Needle Sword Art he drove with the power of resonance had not truly broken the gray mist; it had merely used the flying sword to transmit the resonance power to the Mountain-Guarding Grand Array, triggering a reaction from the array. The gray mist had retreated along with it just so it wouldn't expose itself.

Xiao Ran could no longer look at Little Mist's cute nickname the same way.

He also deduced two lessons—

First, he must bring Master when going out.

Second, if Master was not by his side, he had to ensure he had a balance of 100 Filial Piety Points so he could bind the black ring and join the group at a critical moment to temporarily surrender to the enemy and save his skin.

If you can't beat them, join them.

As for Little Mist's identity, it was also a mystery!

Being able to attack him within the Mountain-Guarding Grand Array without a care for those around her meant that Little Mist herself must currently be located inside the Mountain-Guarding Grand Array as well.

The black horned ewe leather was a recipe Xiao Ran had figured out himself, ruling out the possibility of enemies lying in ambush in Ten Thousand Beasts Valley in advance; it must have been done on the spot.

From Hundred Herbs Peak to Ten Thousand Beasts Valley, after exchanging words with True Person Guiyan and then finding the black horned ewe, only half a shi-chen had passed in total.

During this period, he had only come into contact with three people.

Martial Aunt Yinyue.

True Person Guiyan.

Junior Sister Zhehui.

If Little Mist was not one of these three people, then she must have completed her layout in an extremely short period of time right under the noses of the Mountain-Guarding Grand Array.

If that was the case, her strength was quite terrifying, and she was extremely familiar with the Zongzhi Mountain Mountain-Guarding Grand Array!

Who on earth was her true identity?

If Xiao Ran went to check the list of outsiders who had entered the Mountain-Guarding Grand Array in the last few days and probed them one by one according to the list, he might be able to figure out Little Mist's true identity.

Doing so, however, not only startled the snake in the grass, but there was also the possibility of investigating in vain.

Because there was another possibility—

Little Mist had been lurking in the sect all along!

In the chat group, Little Mist saying she settled in a small country in the vicinity under Zongzhi Mountain's protection might just be an excuse to hide her true identity and not necessarily true.

If she really wanted to gather intelligence, rather than hiding in those small countries and listening to scraps of information, it was better to directly lurk inside Zongzhi Mountain and experience firsthand news.

With that, the suspicions of Martial Aunt Yinyue, True Person Guiyan, and Junior Sister Zhehui all increased somewhat.

Among them, Martial Aunt Yinyue was the most suspicious of all.

First, she possessed formidable strength.

Second, as one of the four great elders, she was familiar with the Mountain-Guarding Grand Array.

Third, she knew clearly that Ten Thousand Beasts Valley would hand out beast hunting jade slips, yet she gave Xiao Ran her own Body Severing realm jade slip in advance. This jade slip carried strong spiritual pressure, which could precisely locate Xiao Ran's position, while also allowing the gray mist's spiritual pressure to hide right next to the jade slip's spiritual pressure, making it difficult for the Mountain-Guarding Grand Array to detect.

She was indeed very suspicious! But Xiao Ran felt that Martial Aunt Yinyue understood him extremely deeply—so deeply that they had experienced physical communication, even deeper than the communication between him and Master—so there was no need for her to make an unnecessary move to test him.

What's more, Master's brain was indeed not up to par, but her intuition was always very accurate; there was no need for him to suspect someone whom Master trusted one hundred percent.

True Person Guiyan?

Junior Sister Zhehui?

Or was there someone else?

Regarding Little Mist's identity, Xiao Ran decided not to deliberately investigate, lest he startle the snake in the grass and inadvertently expose the whereabouts of the ring.

He would only secretly keep his guard up.

A moment later.

Someone in the group replied immediately.

Body Severing: Resonance power... what is it?

Gentleman: Heaven Tier, Myriad Resonance Art. Legend has it that there are three tiers in total: Mortal Tier, Spirit Cultivation Tier, and Immortal Tier, also known as first tier, second tier, and third tier.

Body Severing: I know the Myriad Resonance Art.

The ones who were relatively active in the chat were still Little Mist, Gentleman, and Body Severing.

From the conversation between a few of them, Xiao Ran could tell that Gentleman seemed to be a typical simping sycophant, infatuated with Body Severing; as soon as Body Severing appeared, he would immediately show up.

As for Body Severing, she seemed to be a rather aloof goddess, ignoring Gentleman completely.

Xiao Ran guessed that this person named Gentleman might just be an ugly toad in reality, with an image similar to Tieling Wu Yanzu or Wenzhou Liu Dehua...

Gentleman: Lingzhou Yue really knows how to play. Heaven-tier cultivation methods, cultivation techniques, and sword arts combined together do not even add up to ten in existence today, yet her master-disciple pair has actually mastered two of them.

Hearing this, Xiao Ran realized that Master's Tidal Force Sword Art was also a Heaven-tier sword art; no wonder she was able to cheat all the way to counter-kill the wraiths, defeating Master Boyun across realms.

Body Severing: To what extent has he practiced the resonance art?

Gentleman: Is this kid's cultivation level really only in the Qi Refining Realm?

Xiao Ran was somewhat curious. Until now, no one in the group had asked in what manner Little Mist had pried into the information.

It seemed that doing so would expose their identities, and not exposing their respective identities had already become an unspoken rule within the group.

Little Mist: I can't be certain of his cultivation level, but his Mortal Tier resonance power has been practiced to perfection. The disciples within the gate kept their mouths shut about his affairs, but I surmise that this person, with an extraordinary Qi Refining cultivation matched with the Art of Resonance, is indeed capable of launching a sneak attack to severely wound Eternity. Afterward, Eternity was forced into demonization, seemingly wanting to seize his body, but unfortunately failed in the end, killed either by the upper echelons of the gate or the Mountain-Guarding Grand Array—this is the most reasonable deduction I can make currently from the information I know.

Heh.

Faking it, keep faking it! Xiao Ran thought to himself that with Little Mist's degree of understanding of the Mountain-Guarding Grand Array, she must know that Ye Fan couldn't possibly have been killed by the array... This kid was just putting on an act here!

Body Severing: What about the whereabouts of the ring?

Gentleman: As everyone knows, the Black Salvation Ring will automatically seek out a host, and ordinary people cannot see it. Even those of us who have already bound the ring cannot monitor or interfere with its destination.

Body Severing: I am asking whether the ring could end up in the hands of this Xiao Ran.

Gentleman: Even less likely. Once the Black Salvation Ring encounters a suitable host, it will forcibly bind with them; we do not have the power to choose.

Body Severing: That's you. If it's someone whose divine soul is strong to a certain degree, perhaps they will have a different situation.

Little Mist: Do you mean a divine soul strong enough to split the body?

Silence fell instantly in the group.

Xiao Ran thought deeply, and it terrified him.

What kind of immortals were all these people, damn it? Even his forcible possession of the black ring using the system space had been guessed? Fortunately, these people could never guess that he possessed a system, nor could they ever guess that he could freeload on group messages without binding the black ring.

At this moment, someone broke the silence in the group.

Mad Hunt: Killing a savior is an unpardonable crime. If someone pays, this old man is willing to set aside his old face amidst his busy schedule to go to Zongzhi Mountain and kill a junior.

Mad Hunt!

Xiao Ran suddenly recalled that there was a notoriously famous and supremely arrogant hunter in the Cultivation World, so wild that he actively hunted wraiths, known to all as Mad Hunt.

It was rumored that Mad Hunt was one of the people in the current Cultivation World whose strength was closest to the Nine Radiances... one of them!

Aside from hunting wraiths, he would occasionally accept high-difficulty, high-reward assassination missions.

Daring to come to Zongzhi Mountain to kill someone by force—regardless of whether he was bragging or not—this remark was arrogant beyond measure.

What was even wilder was that this fellow directly used his own nickname as his group moniker!

Truly, anyone could become a savior...

These madmen could not be judged by conventional logic! No matter what, a man fears fame as a pig fears fattening; Xiao Ran was famous now.

He decided to earn 200 Filial Piety Points sooner: 100 to upgrade to second-tier resonance power, and the remaining 100 to keep for critical moments of life and death, ready to bind the black ring and surrender to the enemy.

In the salvation group, Mad Hunt's single sentence did not achieve the result of exploding the chat; instead, it made the atmosphere within the group even more chilling, and several glowing seal-script names quickly turned gray...

Xiao Ran waited for a moment, and seeing that no one else was speaking, his divine sense withdrew from the black ring.

Facing him was a tall, thin young man whose eyes and ears were sealed with iron rings, the sword-carved patterns on the iron rings flickering with a dim red glow.

"Junior Brother Xiao, Master has been waiting for a long time."

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