While Ye Tianming and Wu Lianyi were talking, a group of expert Spirit Tamers and elite Warriors raced through the Outskirts Forest more than three hundred li from Coiling Dragon Ridge, leaping like apes and monkeys as they employed Transformation Dao secret arts, their own bloodlines, and beast bodies.
Before long, a Spirit Tamer riding an entirely black Giant Wolf raised his hand and ordered, "Halt!"
As though a mechanism had been triggered, the entire group of more than fifty people stopped as one.
They obeyed every command without hesitation, displaying exceptional discipline quite unlike that of ordinary experts.
Clearly, they were no ordinary people, but personnel from various great sects, primarily the Spirit Taming Sect and the Azure Cloud Sect, along with forces belonging to the Heavenly Dao Alliance.
The Spirit Tamer riding the Black Wolf was named Lu Ping. He was a chief steward-level leader from the Spirit Taming Sect's Warrior Hall, a special operations expert whose cultivation had reached early earth rank.
This time, he had come on a mission, leading elite experts jointly dispatched by the various factions to track down Wu Lianyi.
After considerable effort, they had learned that Wu Lianyi had appeared here several times since the Warrior army from Chilling Wind Gorge captured Coiling Dragon Ridge in late September. He might be planning to make it his frontline headquarters and oversee the fighting in person.
The Warriors were now actively advancing along the Northern Front, intending to lay their hands on the area around the Myriad Phenomena Sect's headquarters, where numerous training institutes and subordinate aristocratic clans were most densely concentrated. This also matched their earlier deductions about the Warriors' strategic intentions: to occupy spirit peaks and blessed lands, squeeze wealth out of aristocratic clans and market districts, and thereby strengthen their own