In just a few breaths, Ding Songyan had determined the precise hiding place of "Evil Through and Through" Sun Feiyang from the sleeping Accumulated Evil Path Disciple's dream:
The leader of the Evil Envoys was recovering in an underground chamber. The chamber had three entrances: one in the Main Room, one in the small building in the rear courtyard, and one beside the water channel outside the alley. These also served as separate escape routes.
The Main Room was closest to Ding Songyan's current position.
Ding Songyan opened his eyes. His face took on a deerlike shape again, and his eyes bulged outward.
He did not kill the unconscious Accumulated Evil Path Disciple in passing, fearing that the yin evil within Sun Feiyang might be sensitive to blood offerings and could sense blood and death from afar.
That would only rustle the grass and startle the snake.
And using only early-stage Dayan Realm strength matched both his "name" and "reality," so it would not invalidate his alteration of them. Otherwise, his earlier stealth would already have been exposed.
Using the corridor's wooden pillars and the doors and windows of the buildings, Ding Songyan slipped to the Main Room's entrance without shadow or trace.
Two Accumulated Evil Path Disciples with visible physical abnormalities stood guard inside.
Their vision blurred, and a figure suddenly appeared before them.
The figure wore a short brown outfit and rushed forward, sweeping his longsword sideways at an unhurried pace without drawing it from its deep-black scabbard.
One of the two Accumulated Evil Path Disciples had just drawn a spike when the deep-black scabbard, seemingly slow enough to block, abruptly accelerated and struck the side of his head with a thud. The other opened his mouth, but before he could shout "Enemy attack," a dark, chaotic strand