Team Leader Shi Was a Gathered Origin Martial Artist All Along!

Over the next half hour, several groups of fleeing Heaven Overturning Cult members arrived at White Rock Slope.

Most were in the Body Tempering Realm, fewer were in the Meridian Opening Realm, and very few were in the Qi Condensation Realm.

Ye An and the other eleven Demon Hunters spread out like a net. Every Heaven Overturning Cult member trying to escape through White Rock Slope was a fish about to be caught.

Ye An and his companion dealt cleanly with the cult martial artists on the main road, while Chen Yi and the others cleared out the small fry trying to slip through on the side paths.

Three groups of cult members came through in that half hour, and nothing unexpected happened.

Then the fourth group of routed fighters arrived, and things changed.

This group was nothing like the others. Every one of them was a Qi Condensation Realm martial artist, and not one set foot on the main road.

They crept silently through the dense woods to one side, deliberately suppressing their auras as they made for the forked gully guarded by Chen Yi.

Chen Yi and two Demon Hunters were still dealing with the last wave of "fish that had slipped through the net." Before they could collect themselves, several dark-red figures burst from the edge of the woods!

The Qi Condensation martial artists launched a lightning-fast assault, striking straight at an Early Qi Condensation Realm Demon Hunter on the outer edge of Chen Yi's group!

The Demon Hunter barely blocked the first blow, but the second burst of Blood Dao True Qi struck him square in the chest. He flew backward, slammed hard into the rock wall, and spat blood.

"We've got trouble!" Chen Yi barked. He surged forward to shield his fallen colleague from the