Third Young Master Bai clearly shared Mr. Yue's view. The three men had hacked their way through thorns and brambles, survived countless perils, and made it this far; none of them were easy to deal with.
Compared to Monk Cheng Kong and Yu Daoist, who had each made a move, it was Mu Yi—the Confucian scholar who had not acted even once and seemed as though Heaven's own illegitimate son favored him with luck—whom he feared more. He had tested him several times along the way, yet had never gained any result.
Afterward, the group passed through Yin Soldiers Borrowing Passage. The dense drumbeats stirred their minds and blood, while Yin Sha energy, thick as a tidal wave, came crashing toward them, yet it failed to inflict many casualties.
One reason was that Mr. Yue, a Grandmaster martial artist, did not conceal his identity or strength as Meng Zhao had. He could naturally act without reservation, using his forceful and tyrannical power to directly tear apart the immensely destructive Yin Sha energy carried by Yin Soldiers Borrowing Passage.
As for the scattered remnants of that force, the Buddhist, Daoist, and Confucian trio all evaded them with ease. The Confucian scholar called Mu Yi, in particular, pushed the word "luck" to its very limit. Yin Sha energy was clearly about to touch him, yet it suddenly turned as if it had lost its wits, changing targets at the last moment. It was simply absurd.
Having passed through Yin Soldiers Borrowing Passage, the group continued under Mr. Yue's guidance toward Cloud Peak, eventually entering that vast expanse of white mist.
Yet unlike Gan Mingfeng, Xu Tingyun, and the others, who had come unprepared, Third Young Master Bai, who possessed the Record of Exorcising Heresy, and Mr. Yue had long been ready. The