Dark Struggle, an Invisible Contest

Blade-Cut Valley.

When Yue Yang, the Spirit Cloud Kingdom Lord, and the others arrived at Blade-Cut Valley, they found everything as usual.

The three leaders left behind were actually waiting for Yue Yang with faces full of shock and suspicion. Grey Wolf had already delivered the message, but after discussing it among themselves, though they believed in the authenticity of the letter Grey Wolf had brought, they had not chosen to leave immediately as warned. As a precaution, most members of the three major teams had hidden themselves away, while the three leaders remained behind to observe in secret... What baffled the Spirit Cloud Kingdom Lord and the others most was that they all insisted that absolutely no one had passed through Blade-Cut Valley.

It would have been one thing if they could not detect the traces of super-powerhouses like Cook Caribbean and Sacred Temple Grand Hall Master Ji Wuri, but not a single member of the three Sacred Temple guard units—the Justice Blade, Hand of Arbitration, and Judgment Hammer—had come through. That was far too strange.

"We've already been discovered by Ji Wuri. At the very least, he knows we exist." Yue Yang considered a possibility.

As the Sacred Temple's Grand Hall Master, Ji Wuri could not possibly be unaware of his subordinates' weaknesses.

Previously, when he had left behind a small squad of Sacred Temple guards, perhaps it had been a test.

Once he discovered that Yue Yang could effortlessly kill those Sacred Temple guards in seconds, Ji Wuri immediately hid all the guards inside the Tome World, vanished without a trace, and concealed himself in the shadows. Given that Ji Wuri's main plan was to hunt down Cook Caribbean, he had not immediately acted against the three major teams of Eight Wastes, Snowfield, and War Song—but he