A valley lay not far from Wanfeng County's county seat, known as the Western Suburbs Valley.
Jagged rocks littered the place, and mountains enclosed it on three sides. Few people ever ventured there.
Today, however, several uninvited guests intruded.
The three Nine Evil Sect Incense Masters Yi Yang had been pursuing stopped without warning after entering the valley.
The panic vanished instantly from their supposedly "terrified" faces, replaced by chilling sneers, as though they were looking at a dead man.
They wheeled around, scarlet light blazing in their eyes.
The auras of two of them surged, breaking straight through the late True Astral barrier and revealing their true cultivation at True Astral Realm completion. They had been concealing it all along on the Blood Envoy's orders.
The last was an expert in the late True Astral Realm.
Without a single wasted word, the three attacked from three directions in a triangular formation. Three streams of blood-red astral energy wove a lethal net, sealing every route Yi Yang could use to evade.
The man on the left unleashed mountainlike fist force, carrying a heavy, ponderous momentum.
The man on the right released vicious palm wind that formed a blue-black demon claw and lunged straight for Yi Yang's heart.
The man in the middle-the one who had carried the corpse earlier-slid a poisoned short dagger from his sleeve. His entire body became an afterimage as he stabbed straight at Yi Yang's throat.
Their attacks were perfectly coordinated, leaving Yi Yang no room to dodge within the valley.
Yet Yi Yang showed no surprise at all. He had already anticipated this the moment he set off in pursuit.
Facing their thunderous combined assault, Yi Yang neither retreated nor showed fear. The Mysterious Abyss black blade slung diagonally across his back was already in