Within the shadowy cave, seven Soul-Calming Netherstones floated silently, their gentle netherlight tearing open a relatively clear space amid the dense yin-baleful mist.
The Profound Serpent Manor Master and High Person Qianzhen faced each other across the spring.
The spiritual power around the two remained hidden and unspent, yet their auras collided in the air, raging wildly.
Ji Yuan concealed himself within the shadow cast by a protruding rock wall at the entrance. He wore Spirit-Devouring Armor, a Concealment Hat, and a Blood-Devouring Cloak, exerting the Breath-Concealing Formula to its fullest.
Even if a Nascent Soul Cultivator carefully swept this area with Divine Sense, he would only take it for an utterly ordinary stone.
His Nascent Soul Peak Divine Sense had already spread out soundlessly, following the textures of the ground to cover the entire cave.
Besides the two men confronting each other, he swiftly caught a third presence!
More precisely, Ji Yuan had detected a trace of bloodiness.
It lay on the other side of the cave, behind a gray-black stone pillar that required three men embracing it to circle.
That aura was hidden exceedingly well, nearly indistinguishable from the stone pillar's own cold, yin nature. Yet Ji Yuan's Divine Sense far surpassed everyone present, and he still glimpsed clues from several details.
"High Person Bloodslaughter—"
Ji Yuan silently repeated the name, quietly revising his assessment of the man.
When he had first met him, that iron-tower-like burly frame, the savage blood-flood-dragon tattoo, and the undisguised violent aura had made it easy for one to assume he was a mere brute.
But this infiltration, exquisite to the extreme, this control that could conceal his Blood-Killing Aura so thoroughly that even an ordinary Nascent Soul Middle Stage Cultivator would struggle to notice it—
All of it showed just what delicate,