What now? Think of something, quick!
This was no time for blind confidence. Judging by how this cat had appeared, Yi Shuyuan could no longer consider it an ordinary animal, however normal its aura seemed.
He had to proceed on the assumption that he had already been discovered.
At that moment, Yi Shuyuan's thoughts raced like lightning, sparks of desperate inspiration colliding within his mind.
Do the opposite!
Rather than circulate his magical power and use any immortal arts, Yi Shuyuan employed his lightness skill and leaped onto the stockade's spike-like wall.
Landing with both feet on the wooden palisade, Yi Shuyuan laughed aloud.
"I've long heard that the bandits here could never be rooted out. As the saying goes, guard day and night, but a thief within is hardest to fight. So there was a traitor all along-"
Yi Shuyuan flipped through the air and landed lightly inside the stockade, his gaze turning toward the building at its center.
A slightly crooked plaque hung over the building, bearing the words: Gathering Hall.
Whether when bandits had occupied this place or now, Yi Shuyuan found that plaque rather ironic. His voice rang clear and righteous.
"Hmph! Since the authorities are incompetent, as a righteous man of Rivers and Lakes, I shall sweep away you thieves today and rid the people of this scourge-"
He was the very picture of a supremely confident wandering champion of Rivers and Lakes!
Although Yi Shuyuan did not unleash his magical power, his perception remained intact. Sure enough, the savage agitation in the demonic aura immediately diminished.
Intelligent demons, like humans, generally disliked variables beyond their control.
To a demon of this caliber, a martial artist of Rivers and Lakes was merely an ordinary human.
Yi Shuyuan's mind worked nimbly. *Besides, cats-I've kept one myself.