"That was close. I nearly got caught. I never thought I'd still mess up after lying in wait for so long. But these guys are pretty interesting."
In a certain forest, Kou Wuji emerged from the earth using Earth Evasion and steadied his breathing.
"Especially that kid who set up the formation. If I heard right, his name was Ye Kang? I've never heard of him, but he's clearly more dangerous than Pang Jinzhui. If I can make use of him, maybe I really can surpass those few great geniuses."
Kou Wuji rubbed his chin, the corners of his mouth curling up.
Countless schemes had already surfaced in his seemingly harmless eyes.
That was his way of doing things, and the key to his dominating Wu Ri City.
In terms of strength, he might not be the most powerful, but in terms of strategy, no one could match him.
"A guy like that definitely won't take the bait easily. So I need to make a big enough commotion to force him to come. They seem to be looking for Fortune Pearls, don't they?"
Kou Wuji hadn't simply fled without a second thought. In fact, the Secret Method he cultivated was exceptionally suited to spying.
Although he had pretended to leave just now, he had actually left behind an invisible puppet clone to monitor the three from a distance.
Of course, the puppet could only make out the general picture. It didn't dare look too closely.
Kou Wuji hadn't reached this conclusion based entirely on that, either.
The main reason was that he had been the first to discover the Three-Eyed Tiger Emperor. He had been lying in wait for quite a while before Ye Kang and the others arrived.
So he was certain that the three of them hadn't originally