A Risky Gambit

Song Yan wanted to retreat, but Zhao Kingdom's side would not let them leave so easily.

The cultivators of the Myriad Spirit Sect and Crimson Sun Palace were all first- or second-rate experts, and killing them would take some effort.

But the remaining two Song Kingdom Golden Cores were merely below par.

With no one holding Wang Daoyuan and Zhong Zhenyang back, and both of them being particularly skilled at stabbing people in the dark, they could seize the chance to launch another sneak attack.

Without even needing to discuss it through divine sense, the two tacitly concealed themselves and headed for the two Song Kingdom Golden Cores Shi Zhizhong was fighting.

When Song Yan and the Sixth Prince saw the two vanish, they both panicked, while the others were even more at a loss.

Song Yan swept the area with his divine sense for a long while, yet still failed to find them.

Wang Daoyuan wore the Black Demon Robe; even a Half-step Nascent Soul would be unable to detect him.

Zhong Zhenyang's concealment secret art was no simple matter either. From two or three hundred miles away, cultivators of the same rank would find it difficult to see through it.

Only when they came within a little over fifty miles of Shi Zhizhong did Song Yan discover Zhong Zhenyang's figure.

But with the two Song Kingdom cultivators suppressed by Shi Zhizhong, escaping Zhong Zhenyang's grasp was simply impossible.

When Song Kingdom attacked Wucheng Pass, it had deployed all its hidden cultivators, amounting to only twenty Golden Cores.

During the battle against the Three Sects, it had lost five.

Two more of its own cultivators had just died, leaving it with only thirteen Golden Cores.

If it lost another two, Song Kingdom would only be able to protect itself