Nine-Layer Mountain.
It was located northwest of Shangjing Prefecture. Its mountain range stretched in nine continuous layers, and so it was named Nine-Layer Mountain.
Among them, the main peak was the highest, extraordinarily steep and dangerous, easy to defend and hard to attack. It had always been plagued by serious banditry, with bandits entrenched there year-round, impossible to wipe out no matter how they were suppressed.
Three figures abruptly appeared on the mountain path.
"My Lord, up ahead is the main peak of Nine-Layer Mountain," Chen Canghai said, raising a hand to point at a peak in the distance that was like a Sharp Sword thrust into the sky. "The convoy was ambushed ten li ahead, in the gorge at Tiger Leap Cliff."
Jiang Ning lifted his eyes and looked over. The mountain terrain was wickedly perilous.
Afterward, his Divine Sense poured out like quicksilver spilling across the ground, rapidly spreading forward.
In just an instant, all nine peaks fell within the shroud of his Divine Sense.
But at the main peak, it met a layer of invisible barrier, blocking his Divine Sense outside.
"Let's go! To the main peak!" Jiang Ning said.
As his words fell, his figure moved again, sweeping past like lightning.
Seeing this, Chen Canghai and Jing Wuming hurriedly followed.
A moment later, before Tiger Leap Cliff, Jiang Ning's figure stopped. He stood at the entrance to the gorge, his gaze sweeping over the surroundings.
Traces of battle still remained on the ground, along with wheel ruts from carriages, and a few scraps of torn clothing.
Clearly, these were the traces left here some days ago by the convoy transporting his cultivation resources.
At this moment, Chen Canghai and Jing Wuming also arrived close behind him.
Compared to Jiang Ning's calm, Chen Canghai and Jing Wuming's