Enemies at the Gate
Elder Yin Qiao had sensed a powerful force watching them from the shadows, but at this critical juncture, he didn't rush to use a great divine ability to investigate.
It wasn't that he didn't want to. He was wary of alerting the enemy. If he used a great divine ability to search for whoever was spying on them, he might end up tipping them off instead. With the enemy's identity still unknown, revealing his strength rashly would definitely be unwise.
By rights, the enemy had to have been drawn there by the convoy and be interested in the "goods" on the carts. But Elder Yin Qiao knew full well that the carts weren't carrying spirit stones and spirit medicines as they had in the past. They were carrying the crucial equipment for their current operation, and it couldn't be allowed to fall into enemy hands.
He even wondered if the enemy was really after the "spirit medicines and spirit stones" on the carts.
Most bandit groups these days were former adventurer parties that had turned to banditry. Elder Yin Qiao knew a thing or two about how they operated. Some members of those parties were fairly capable, but they could never reach the pinnacle of strength in the underground world. At best, they were quasi-elite.
And there weren't many people like that.
Grand Scholar Tong Ye, for example, had once led a famous adventurer party. Later, he accepted Titan Academy's offer of amnesty and climbed his way up to the rank of Grand Scholar.
Among ordinary people, he was already considered an exceptional talent.
But Grand Scholar Tong Ye had only truly become a first-rate expert after joining Titan Academy.
In other words, there were very few true first-rate experts among the bandits. They were exceedingly