Under cover of night.
Elder Li wore a grave expression as he circled the mountain from the east.
Those Heavenly Derivation Sect disciples really were no simple bunch. They had made a feint, neither quite real nor quite false. They seemed to be playing dumb, but they must actually have gathered plenty of information.
In just a single day, they had even managed to turn a Golden Core elder.
Moreover, Zheng Xiaofeng seemed like a completely different person. He had always been cautious and careful, and knew how to handle people.
Now he was actually pointing at the sect leader's nose and calling him an old bastard?
The sect leader had actually swallowed it, too, not even arguing back throughout Zheng Xiaofeng's tirade.
When asked for the details, the sect leader refused to say anything.
He could only surmise that Zheng Xiaofeng had received some hidden backup left by the Heavenly Derivation Sect disciples.
Then there was that Blood Qi Spirit Stone the sect leader had produced...
Ever since the attack on the mine, they had added a trigger formation on top of the illusion formation.
Any outsider stepping inside would trigger alerts in two places: the Clearwind Sect and the mine elders' location.
Every disciple at the mine carried a specially made token to prevent the formation from triggering false alarms.
He had received no alerts from the mine's formation. By all rights, nothing could have gone wrong there.
But a Blood Qi Spirit Stone had appeared, and someone had come straight to the Clearwind Sect with it. The Heavenly Derivation Sect had even turned an elder.
Taken together, those three things hardly suggested that everything was fine.
Although there was a risk of exposure now, they had already reached an agreement with those Evil Cultivators at the mine,