In the spacious courtyard at the center of the stronghold.
The sudden shadow instantly tightened every muscle in the two Demon Cultivators leisurely sipping tea. The true qi around them tensed, and their scalps prickled!
An outsider!
Someone had slipped into the courtyard!
Both were veteran True Qi Realm Wanderers who had weathered countless battles and years of bloody slaughter, their combat instincts keen.
The instant the shadow enveloped them, they sensed the approaching danger. An enemy had silently breached layer after layer of defenses, infiltrated their courtyard, and already drawn close!
In a heartbeat, alarm bells rang in their minds. Their relaxed ease vanished completely, their bodies tensing as they circulated their true qi and gathered power, ready to erupt into action.
Yet even after detecting the intruder and the danger upon them, neither veteran Demon Cultivator felt much fear or panic.
The Stone Mountain Secret Realm had unusual spatial barriers, and its worldly laws imposed extremely powerful restrictions. Mighty experts above the Core Realm could not enter at all, and every martial artist inside was restricted to the True Qi Realm or below.
In other words, this intruder could, at most, possess cultivation on par with theirs. He could be no higher than the True Qi Realm; there was no possibility of an overwhelmingly stronger expert appearing.
Since they belonged to the same realm, the two felt confident.
Both were seasoned True Qi Realm Wanderers steeped in years of slaughter. Fighting together with practiced coordination, they possessed combat strength far beyond that of ordinary cultivators of their realm fighting alone.
In their eyes, even an exceptional true qi peak expert would, at most, be evenly matched with them.
They only needed to offer a little resistance and stall briefly. The other True Qi Realm Wanderers outside the courtyard