"Yes!" Everyone nodded.
As things stood, they could no longer tell friend from foe at all.
You might think the person approaching was a senior brother from the alliance, only for him to whip out a War Puppet and stab you in the back a second later.
Several sects had already lost every last one of their disciples to this impossible-to-guard-against game of undercover agents!
Meanwhile, on the other side of the Mountain of Ten Thousand Spirits, a group of elders aboard several thousand-zhang Flying Boats belonging to Heavenly Baleful Valley wore expressions as black as the bottoms of cooking pots.
"Those hypocrites! Despicable, shameless bastards! To think they'd use such filthy tricks against our Heavenly Baleful Valley disciples!"
"First Elder, please calm down. We've already ordered all our disciples to take off their Heavenly Baleful Valley uniforms and change into Righteous Alliance ones!"
At those words, the mouths of several nearby elders twitched despite themselves.
"Are you certain the Righteous Alliance started disguising themselves first? That they were the ones who started preying on their own kind?"
"Absolutely!" the elder declared without a shred of hesitation.
"After our first fifty disciples disappeared, we sent people to investigate through every possible channel. We learned that someone had impersonated Heavenly Baleful Valley disciples and lured them into a trap!"
"I'm afraid their chances of survival are slim!"
"Good, good, good! If they won't play by the rules, there's no need for us to hold back either!"
"Pass down my orders! Send all those 'Blood Baleful' core disciples in! Remember, tell them they needn't have any more scruples. Let loose and kill them all!"
Soon, the Righteous Alliance received a flood of reports about devastating losses among its disciples.
Upon investigating, they discovered to their horror that the fiends from