Inside Star City, at a certain inn.
The table before Young Master Bai Yue was laden with delicacies from land and sea, as well as Jade Dew Nectar, yet he had not touched a single bite.
From the other wine tables in the main hall came discussions, with the speakers vividly recounting the entire confrontation between the Li Family and the Evil Moon Sect that night.
After a long while, Young Master Bai Yue returned to his room with a gloomy expression.
The moment he stepped into the room, six martial artists emerged from the shadows behind him. When they saw Young Master Bai Yue standing by the window with a dark expression, an aura that warned all living things to keep their distance radiating from him, their hearts trembled, and none dared say a word.
"I truly didn't expect it... The Li Family's current patriarch, Li Junhu, really does have some skill. No wonder he managed to seize the position of Li Family patriarch over three thousand years ago..."
"That move of his—concealing the sky and crossing the sea, the Golden Cicada Shelling... Not only did it let him hide behind the scenes, it also allowed him to smoothly evade this assassination attempt."
"I really did underestimate him. I never thought tiny Evil Moon Thousand Provinces would have someone like that."
"I was careless."
Young Master Bai Yue spoke with a gloomy expression.
The six people following Young Master Bai Yue exchanged glances. One of them, a bewitching woman, asked, "Young Master, what should we do next? Should we continue borrowing the Yunling Li Family's identity to force the Yunling Li Family onto the opposite side of the Evil Moon Sect? Or... should we look for the map first?"
Another figure said in a deep voice, "Young Master, since