Poison Miasma Residence

The night grew deeper still.

On the western side of Wolf Howl Valley, outside a residence shrouded in poisonous miasma, several shadows darker than the night itself clung to the sheer cliff face like geckos, slowly climbing upward.

At their head was Lu Chen.

His Godslayer Thunder Eyes flickered with barely perceptible lightning in the darkness. His "Truth-Piercing" vision penetrated the thin poisonous miasma, laying bare every sentry post, hidden lookout, and warning formation around the residence.

He made a discreet hand signal.

Behind him, Gu Mingxuan and the others understood at once. Like a stream splitting into branches, they silently scattered, each locking onto a target.

Western side of Wolf Howl Valley, Poison Miasma Residence.

Rather than a residence, it was more like a strange fortress built against natural poisonous miasma springs and jagged mountain walls.

Its outer walls were piled from ghastly white, unknown beast bones mixed with black stone. Dark purple vines crawled over them, blooming with huge flowers that gave off a cloyingly sweet, rotten stench.

Pale green poisonous miasma filled the air. Even cultivators would grow dizzy and find their true essence sluggish after breathing it in for too long.

From deep within the residence came low, rustling sounds, like countless insects gnawing away, making one's skin crawl.

Like a part of the shadows, Lu Chen lay silently concealed beneath the blind spot of a watchtower along the residence's outer wall.

He had just personally snapped the necks of two "hidden gu sentries" lurking in the shadows at the foot of the wall—these Ten Thousand Gu Sect elites could synchronize part of their aura with the venomous insects they raised, making them exceedingly difficult to detect. Yet before the Godslayer Thunder Eyes' "Truth-Piercing" gaze, they had nowhere to hide.

Gu Mingxuan, together with the