Secretly Overhearing Secrets

These were the whispered words of disciples from some overseas sword cultivation sect.

Lu Chen listened patiently while keeping an eye on the third floor.

There were eight private rooms on the third floor, named Heaven, Earth, Mystic, Yellow, Cosmos, Universe, Vastness, and Wilderness.

His divine sense flowed like invisible water, slipping around the simple isolation arrays built into those rooms as he listened in on the conversations within.

The Heaven room was empty.

A group of overseas merchants were discussing business in the Earth room.

The Mystic room had a stronger shielding array, making Lu Chen's divine sense somewhat hazy. He vaguely caught words such as "spirit stones," "shares," and "passageway." It seemed some merchant association was conducting a secret transaction.

The Yellow room...

When his divine sense touched the Universe room, Lu Chen's eyes narrowed slightly.

The shielding array inside was not weak, but after his Godslayer Thunder Eyes reached minor accomplishment, his divine sense's penetrating power had greatly increased. Coupled with his sensitivity to undead death qi and the aura of Ye Family cultivation techniques, he still caught several familiar traces of aura.

"Ye Qingfeng's effeminate death qi... the blood-soaked Killing Intent carrying the wolfish savagery unique to Sky Wolf Sect cultivators... And an even more concealed, purer chill of death—someone at the Soul Envoy level under the Undead Monarch!" Lu Chen judged inwardly.

Without revealing anything, he condensed more of his divine sense, turning it into fine needles that carefully pierced the array's barrier as he tried to catch the conversation inside.

"...The plan is settled. Turbulent Current Reef, three thousand li southwest of the entrance, will be the first interception point. Your Sky Wolf Sect's wolf boats will be responsible for launching a frontal assault and creating chaos," said a cold, hoarse voice. It was