The Demon Spirit Sect's signature ability was Evil Spirit Refining.
In battle, they created a Sky Curtain, using dense fog to turn the battlefield into their home ground, then leveraging that powerful advantage to secure victory.
The Bloodshadow Sect's cultivation method released Blood Mist during battle to slow their enemies, gradually widening their advantage.
Thus, these two sects were the vanguard in the ambush on Lin Bai.
Blood Mist restricted his speed, while the Sky Curtain blocked his vision—a battle strategy designed specifically for Lin Bai.
Of course, considering Lin Bai was a ruthless man who had wiped out an entire sect single-handedly, they had never expected this trick alone to kill him. They merely wanted to use Evil Spirits to eliminate the Heaven-Sent Ones first, limiting Lin Bai's Palm Thunder.
Yet barely had the battle begun when Xin Shang and the others nearly popped their eyes out of their sockets.
What was going on?
What happened to the promised Cui Cutleg?
Why was lightning appearing before the Heaven-Sent Ones had even spoken?
"We've been duped." Ge Feiyun watched the Evil Spirits his disciples had painstakingly refined turn to dust, his face instantly turning livid. "Lin Bai's Palm Thunder doesn't need that ridiculous incantation. This was a smokescreen he laid for us!"
"Does his scheming run that deep?" Xin Shang stared in horror at the Palm Thunder falling like raindrops.
The intelligence had come from a Heaven-Sent One called [Disqualified from Being Human].
But they had not trusted the Heaven-Sent One's claims completely. Before the battle, they had conducted a thorough investigation before finally settling on this strategy.
Yet the battle had spun out of control the moment it began.
"When he fought the Returning Dragon Temple, even after the Beggar Gang's Heaven-Sent Ones were wiped out, he insisted on