Outside Solitary Sound Cliff.
At some point, five young men and women flashed over from the forest some distance from the cliff. Their features were utterly ordinary, without a single distinguishing trait.
As though they had an exceptionally precise destination in mind, the moment the five figures landed at Solitary Sound Cliff, they all stopped moving and looked at one another in bewilderment.
"Is this Solitary Sound Cliff?"
"That can't be right. If this is Solitary Sound Cliff, why is there no one here?"
"By all rights, Saint Slave Xu Xiaoshou's wanted notice has already gone up. This place should be the eye of the storm for smugglers. Sword Immortal Rao should have noticed something was wrong as well and led a team here... So why is this place so peaceful?"
"Fool God, what do you think?"
The group exchanged a few startled, suspicious glances before turning together toward the young man at their head.
The man called Fool God appeared to be at the Grandmaster realm, with no notable features whatsoever. Yet he was actually Double Fool, leader of one of the five elite bounty-hunter squads.
Hearing this, Double Fool merely swept his gaze around, his nose twitching, before saying gravely, "A great battle took place here. There are at least traces of a Path-Cutting expert making a move... Power of the darkness attribute?"
"Where are the people?" asked the woman beside him, dressed like a trial participant, with an average figure and bare feet.
"They're all gone. Most of the traces have been erased. The people seem to have vanished into thin air. Either they all entered an alternate-dimensional space world, or they were sucked away by a spatial spirit artifact... Of course, there's another, even greater possibility!" Double Fool paused as he spoke.
The people around him