Something was very wrong.
The feeling of having their enemy hidden in the shadows while they stood out in the open was deeply unpleasant.
But things had come to this, and doing anything other than pressing forward would clearly be useless.
Besides, they were not actually all that worried. After all, the Chan Sect still had Daoist Randeng, a peak quasi-Saint. Even if the Interception Sect sent Daoist Duobao, they had nothing to fear.
Time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, the appointed hour arrived.
Guangchengzi and Chijingzi exchanged a glance, then followed the Chan Sect's undercover agent in Yin Shang, slipping straight into a secluded courtyard in Chaoge Royal City.
The operation went remarkably smoothly-so smoothly that Guangchengzi's and Chijingzi's scalps tingled.
They kept praying that nothing unexpected would happen.
Otherwise, if something went wrong here in Yin Shang Royal City, where human fortune ran deepest, the Kongtong Seal, Yin Shang fortune, and human fortune would suppress their strength to its absolute limit.
That would not be good news for them.
After all, the Interception Sect was different from them. It had long since bound itself to Yin Shang.
The Interception Sect's members would instead be like fish in water within this royal city.
If a fight broke out, they would be at an overwhelming disadvantage.
But sometimes, the very thing one feared was what came.
When they reached the courtyard where they had arranged to meet Yin Jiao and Yin Hong, neither prince was there. Instead, a burly man in Yin Shang Armor stood in the middle of the courtyard.
"Are you Kong Xuan, the commander of Three Mountains Pass?"
"Don't tell me your Chan Sect intends to rely on you to fight us?"
"Though we are deep within Yin Shang Royal City and cannot