The faint glow of night pearls illuminated the dim karst cavern.
Dozens of young men and women from the Sang family, along with the outside invaders, plummeted with whooshes. The sinkhole dropped vertically into unfathomable depths. The intruders, dressed in black, streaked past the Sang juniors and descended even faster!
Bai Yujun nearly flickered from place to place in rapid succession, moving with extreme professionalism.
Suddenly, she discovered a fellow professional who was likewise concealing their form.
No figure could be seen, but thermal vision detected changes in the temperature of the cave wall within the shadows, like dashed lines stretching downward through the darkness. The changes were not caused by the other party's body heat, but by the faint warmth generated when their hands and feet scraped against the rock. No one should have been able to notice it—except for a divine beast even more shadowy and professional.
Her beautiful eyes closed, then opened again.
Under True Sight, that invisible assassin had nowhere to hide.
The cavern widened the farther down it went. Stalactites on both sides dripped water like curtain waterfalls. Droplets fell toward the invisible assassin, whose gray, hazy silhouette nimbly avoided them. Then, all at once, the assassin's back tightened, as though a venomous snake were staring at him from behind...
He flipped in midair, thrusting two gray daggers fiercely backward!
Yet there was nothing behind him.
Not good...
He gathered every ounce of strength and twisted around again. With death looming over him, he pushed his daggers to the utmost limit of his life. Assassins excelled at concealment and lurking, training only for ambushes and killings. They could not bear the consequences of a failed killing move.
He spun with all his strength and thrust again. It was empty once more. He sighed inwardly. *I've