The black-robed expert descending from the sky was one of the Death Warriors trained by the Qing Court's imperial family as their trump card.
They had always operated in the shadows, usually employing ruthless methods that left no survivors, so very few outsiders even knew this Death Warrior force existed.
At most, they had only vaguely sensed its presence.
They had no fixed legion. Other than serving the Qing Court's imperial family, they answered to no legion at all. They operated under loose arrangements, constantly shifting between the Qing Court's major branch legions, appearing without warning and vanishing like ghosts.
They had always been unstoppable in purging dissidents, carrying out assassinations, and gathering intelligence.
During the First Sino-Japanese War, they had acted in secret and dealt a devastating blow to Beiyang's foundations.
Now that things had reached a critical juncture, the Qing Court had begun deploying this force frequently again. They wanted to coordinate with the two countries' intervention and swiftly crush Beiyang through a snowballing advantage.
As an expert at the Veteran Intruder level, he had not only been built up with the Qing Court's lavish resources, but had also survived countless high-risk missions.
There was no question about his strength.
Against two ordinary Intruders, he could easily kill them in a single strike.
Thus, almost the instant Zhang Xun left, he descended from the sky without even considering whether he should avoid suspicion.
Everything had unfolded exactly as he expected.
Under the restraint of his aura, the two men had not even been able to react, like marked targets waiting for him to crush their skulls with one claw each.
Yet as he swooped down in majestic fashion to kill them, an inadvertent glance suddenly made every hair on his body stand on end and sent a chill