The newcomer was a handsome man with neatly parted, ear-length hair. A French velvet suit made his figure look exceptionally tall and slender.
A stack of chunky gold ornaments hung from the first frog button of his waistcoat. When he raised his hand, a white jade cuff showed beneath his sleeve...
The man looked at the five people watching him warily and greeted them with a smile.
"Fellow Daoists of the Tianyan Sect, there's no need to be so nervous. We mean you no harm."
"We came here today on our sect's orders, making our usual patrol of the Endless Sea. We happened to see the Tianyan Sect's array, sealed for so many years, suddenly open, so we stopped by to take a look."
As though to lend his words credibility, the man kept a warm smile on his face as he spoke.
After hearing him, Wei Beichen and the others exchanged glances.
Something seemed to occur to them, and their expressions froze for an instant.
Back in the Dao Alliance, they had heard their Master say more than once:
"The Tianyan Sect may be the foremost sect on the Tiannan Continent, but beyond it, across the Endless Sea, lie other continents and sects."
"The Tianyan Sect and the Tiannan Continent it calls home are merely an inconspicuous corner of the Endless Sea."
The recently activated Teleportation Formation also reminded Wei Beichen and the others of the Tianyan Sect's so-called allied sects of old.
Yet the Lair Master of the Ten Thousand Demon Cave had only just died, and they had only just prepared to leave the Tiannan Continent, when they drew these people's attention.
That was proof enough that these people had been watching this place in secret for countless years.
If so... why had they never used the