After taking out Hungry Ghost and Big-Eared Bat, two neither-here-nor-there figures, Yue Yang felt that someone had set their sights on him.
Perhaps, in the beginning, no one had noticed him.
But after he took out Hungry Ghost, things immediately changed. Whether it was Flying Corpse's report, or whether Hungry Ghost and the others had always been tied to the bigger picture by hidden threads—threads that, once severed, would alert someone and bring them tracking after him... By the time he took down Big-Eared Bat, Yue Yang could already clearly sense that someone was watching him in the shadows, and that person's strength was unfathomably profound.
Pretending not to know, he first sent Mao Podi away to test the hidden enemy's reaction.
Mao Podi smoothly departed aboard an airship.
It seemed that, in that enemy's eyes, Mao Podi was no more than an ant, utterly beneath their notice. The same went for Raven and Pelican leaving. The enemy concealed in the darkness had focused solely on Yue Yang. For the time being, however, they had not acted against him, for reasons unknown.
Had the time not yet come?
Or did they belong to another faction, sitting atop the mountain to watch the tigers fight?
Yue Yang could not quite fathom the stalker's intentions. After all, he had only been here for a short time and knew far too little about Mountain Beyond Mountain!
As he pondered, he made his way toward the battlefield in the Meteorite Star Belt.
Ancient Skeleton was displaying his divine might.
He had beaten the Gryphon Marshal and Golden Eagle General back step by step.
At Yue Yang's arrival, all three revealed startled, suspicious expressions. None of them knew who this young man was... The Gryphon Marshal and Golden Eagle General exchanged glances, while Ancient Skeleton