Indeed, after deciding to head to Boundless Mountain in Northern Li, Ye Han had gathered information along the way in several cultivator cities in Great Cheng, then set out for the Azure Kingdom.
This place, Spirit Tiger Cliff, was an unavoidable passage into and out of the Azure Kingdom. He had arrived here two or three days earlier.
As soon as he arrived, he had discovered cultivators lying in ambush at Spirit Tiger Cliff. They had also set up a barrier formation, sealing off the entire passage...
But he did not know the precise situation. Since the other party had not shown themselves, he certainly would not risk his own neck to test them...
So Ye Han had concealed himself nearby and observed the situation.
The cultivator just now was already the third he had seen come from the Azure Kingdom and be killed.
However, no cultivators had come from Great Cheng toward the Azure Kingdom.
After observing for more than a day, Ye Han had more or less figured out the situation. The people who had set up the formation barrier at Spirit Tiger Cliff were likely from the Blood Cloud Sect, one of the sects involved in the current sect war in the Azure Kingdom.
According to the information Ye Han had gathered, the Blood Cloud Sect had also started the sect war. After several centuries of development, it had become the strongest sect in the Azure Kingdom. By launching this war, it intended to swallow up the entire kingdom, become its sole dominant sect, and take complete control of its cultivation resources...
The formation barrier at Spirit Tiger Cliff was meant to prevent cultivators from fleeing the Azure Kingdom into Great Cheng...
In truth, its greater purpose was to kill those cultivators and plunder their Storage Bags...