Having confirmed that the other side was about to carry out a secret operation nearby.
Meng Chao and Ice Storm quietly followed behind the Wolf King's guards.
Although these men were also experts at lurking and ambushes, and even while racing like wind and lightning, kept their tracks impeccably concealed.
Under a full-speed sprint, however, they still could not help leaving traces.
Weeds that had been cut down as though sliced by a sickle, their broken ends neat and even.
Faint scorch marks hidden in the shrubs.
And wolf hairs as fine as silk threads, caught on branches and thorns.
In Meng Chao's eyes, all of it looked like glittering arrows, guiding them to a long, narrow mountain hollow.
"Careful!"
Meng Chao pressed a hand onto Ice Storm's shoulder.
The two of them lay motionless in the brush like two enormous reptiles.
The winding trail left by the Wolf King's guards abruptly ended here.
The mountain hollow and dense forest ahead were silent in every direction.
Only the Mandala Trees rustled softly in the breeze.
That squad of Wolf King's guards, their bodies smeared all over with mud, seemed to have completely melted into the mountains and woods, vanishing without a trace.
Yet after Meng Chao poured Spiritual Energy into his eyes, activated Extraordinary Vision, and pushed his infrared sensing ability to its limits to conduct a full three-hundred-and-sixty-degree scan of the area ahead.
He detected several human-shaped heat signatures, each subtly different from the surrounding environment, beneath the tangled roots of a Mandala Tree.
Behind a moss-covered boulder that looked as though no one had touched it for centuries.
And within a clump of thorns bristling like a hedgehog ready for battle.
In truth, these Wolf King's guards had already honed their lurking skills to perfection.
Not only were