The night was dark, the wind was high—a night made for murder; a time for gathering in Duobao's earthen cave.
In the southeast of Central Continent of Shen, within an unremarkable dense forest, inside a mysterious earthen cave hidden in a crack between Heaven and Earth, several Dao Sect experts stared wide-eyed at one another.
Guided by a jade talisman, they had each entered an earthen cave formed by Daoist Duobao's divine ability from different locations, then followed Daoist Duobao's directions to arrive here...
Yet not only the later arrivals—even Daoist Duobao himself found it somewhat surprising.
Hadn't Junior Brother Chang Geng said they were going to eliminate a grave threat to the Dao Sect?
Muttering thus in his heart, Daoist Duobao frowned at the immortals before him. Apart from the two from the Chan Teaching, the rest were all old fellow disciples.
The Chan Teaching had sent True Lord Taiyi and Yun Zhongzi. The former possessed an exceptionally formidable mouth-based divine ability, while the latter was renowned as a Golden Immortal of Virtue, upright in origin and blessed with deep good fortune.
From their Jie Teaching, aside from himself, the senior brother, there were Junior Sister Jinling and Junior Brother Zhao Gongming. Yunxiao and Qiongxiao were still on their way and would not arrive for some time...
Just as Daoist Duobao was about to speak, he sensed Five-Colored Divine Light flash across the horizon. The Phoenix Clan great expert Kong Xuan had arrived as well, entering through one of the earthen cave's entrances.
A grave threat to the Dao Sect?
Daoist Duobao's eyes lit up. Then he sucked in a breath, and an audacious guess rose in his heart!
Could they be going to ambush one of the Western Teachings' lesser Sages?
If Senior Brother Xuandu appeared later, accompanied