Two days later, deep in the night, Tigerhold City was battered by wind and rain, the heavens and earth dim and murky. As a coastal city, the sudden downpour had made everything within a thousand kilometers of Tigerhold City exceptionally cold and desolate tonight. Moisture filled the air everywhere, and visibility was extremely low.
Behind Tiger-Embracing Mountain lay an uninhabited stretch of forest. Within that forest, several dozen kilometers north of the ancestral hall, ran a mountain ravine. A waterfall cascaded through it, and tonight's torrential rain had abruptly swelled its flow. Muddy water mixed with mountain soil and fallen leaves thundered down the falls into a deep pool below, then flowed into a river and out toward the sea.
In weather like this, on a night like this, in such wilderness, there was almost no sign of anyone. Even the birds and beasts had mostly hidden away in their nests and dens.
A head silently emerged from the pool.
Not a drop of water clung to the man's body. When the water came within a finger's breadth of him, it was parted by the protective Battle Qi around his body.
Judging solely from that protective Battle Qi, he was a knight, though his face was unfamiliar.
After surfacing from the pool, the man looked around. Then his entire body rose out of the water. Concealed by the torrential rain filling the sky, he shot into the clouds at tremendous speed, then flew north beneath the cover of the dense cloud layer.
More than ten minutes after the man had left the ravine, a flash of thunderbolt split the sky, turning heaven and earth white for an instant. Three more people appeared in the rain-lashed ravine.
"Brother Huang," who had met Zhang Taibai that day, was among the three. One