"How was that guy here?!"
High in the sky, a streak of five-colored light was fleeing rapidly in a certain direction. From time to time, he looked back over his shoulder, his face filled with an expression of incomparable terror.
He had originally been a highly influential elder within the Five Elements Holy Sect, a Half-step Myriad Transformations cultivator. Under orders from the sect, he and several other elders had come in secret to covertly guide the Yuan Mountain Thirteen Bandits into attacking Huangshan Mine, probing the Qingtian Sect's reaction. Through this, they had sought to investigate the condition of Dao Venerable Kong Sheng, the pillar of the Qingtian Sect, before choosing an opportunity to deal with the Qingtian Sect and bring its sect inheritance back with them.
Originally, every part of the plan had gone extremely smoothly.
From using the Yuan Mountain Thirteen Bandits to expose the Qingtian Sect's weakness and deduce that Dao Venerable Kong Sheng, the sect's pillar, was in poor condition, to secretly fanning the flames and spurring on all the forces in Yunzhou coveting the Qingtian Sect's accumulated wealth, even driving the surviving cultivators of the Blood Demon Sect to besiege the mountain,
Everything had proceeded without a hitch,
Nearly every turn of events had remained in the hands of those like them who had arranged matters from behind the scenes.
Just as Dao Venerable Kong Sheng was about to die in battle and the Qingtian Sect was about to fall, those who had hidden behind the curtain all this time had been on the verge of reaping the harvest without tarnishing the Five Elements Holy Sect's reputation in the slightest.
Yet at that very moment,
That figure who had nearly become a taboo throughout the Five Elements Holy Sect appeared!
The moment he made