[Because you had been too deeply immersed, you forgot your other objective and failed to use Observing Heaven, the derived ability of Double Pupils Insight, to investigate other targets acting suspiciously while Xue Qianxi was breaking through.
As a result, those lurking in the shadows had already entered your range of perception before the Phoenix Primordial Spirit warned you, and only then did you belatedly realize what was happening. You had nearly ruined everything.]
[Of course, this was also because you subconsciously believed that, after seeing the display Snow Emperor had arranged, these hidden pawns would no longer dare to act.
After all, with Snow Emperor personally setting up formations here to protect Xue Qianxi's breakthrough, disrupting it had become far more difficult than before. Yet even so, the hidden pawns still chose to sneak in and take the risk. You did not know whether to praise them for being recklessly daring!]
[There were thirty-seven hidden pawns exposed after entering your range of perception. Thirty-one of them were people whose identities you had already uncovered, while the other six were discovered by you for the first time.
Even you were somewhat surprised after seeing through their true identities. Of the thirty-one people discovered earlier, twenty were Rogue Cultivators, while two were Immortal King-level powerhouses.]
[Those two had lingered in Cold Abyss Snow City for a long time. Both were temporary residents who had lived there for over five million years.
The other eleven were cultivators from various first-rate factions, including three Immortal King-level powerhouses. These three had stayed in Cold Abyss Divine Palace even longer, with the shortest stay exceeding ten million years.]
[They had chosen to reside permanently in Cold Abyss Snow City because their factions all possessed their own businesses in or near the city.
Some had rented