Eight Exquisites (2)

"That's true enough."

Straw Coat Guest nodded.

They were both in the intelligence business.

And both worked as assassins.

They still had basic vigilance.

"It's just that Web of Nets assassins have been showing up in greater and greater numbers lately!"

"Look at that child down there."

"Did they really think everyone else was blind?"

"He looked no more than ten."

"Yet he was already in the Innate Realm."

As he said this, Straw Coat Guest's eye twitched slightly.

Though he was hardly in any position to criticize others.

His own appearance was quite strange.

He was even worse off than the child below.

At least the child's disguise could fool ordinary people.

His own disguise looked suspicious at a glance.

Yet, watching one Innate Realm martial artist from Web of Nets after another arrive and soon blend into the crowd under various identities—five or six had already infiltrated—it was enough to make even Straw Coat Guest tremble with fear. He knew clearly that he had lost control over this muddy water. He could not even see through it anymore.

Nightfall did not have many Innate Realm martial artists.

Moreover, they had no grandmaster holding the fort.

Ji Wuye's external cultivation truly ensured that he was invincible within the Innate Realm.

Ordinary attacks could not even breach his defenses.

On top of that, there was Mo Ya at his side.

A professional Innate Realm martial artist specializing in Qinggong.

Then there were Bai Yifei and the others.

But if they faced a point-to-point assassination by Web of Nets, or an invisible storm reshuffling the underworld factions, then even if Hei Bai Xuan Jian did not come, the forces currently controlled by Web of Nets would still be enough to suppress them. At most, Nightfall might wound them in a desperate