Lin Yun and Nangong Wan each took a pair of Voice-and-Image Transmission Talismans, concealed themselves, and went their separate ways.
Although the island was large, the two soon searched all of it with their Jade Talismans and easily found the Fengle Merchant Alliance's people stationed there.
With the Clearvoid Invisible Sword concealing their figures and auras, Lin Yun and Nangong Wan stood side by side on the branch of a towering ancient tree, watching the busy Fengle Merchant Alliance cultivators outside an enormous, equally verdant rocky mountain in the distance.
Whether because of the ruins, because of Lin Yun, or because of both, the Fengle Merchant Alliance had invested heavily in these Ancient Cultivator Ruins.
That was without counting Elder Liu and his three companions, who had yet to arrive.
Outside the ruins alone, Lin Yun's spiritual sense detected dozens of Foundation-Building Stage cultivators and nearly ten Core Formation cultivators-almost the entire fighting force of a small sect.
Seeing so many Core Formation cultivators from the Fengle Merchant Alliance, Nangong Wan could not help looking worried. She transmitted her voice to Lin Yun. "Even without Old Liu and his three companions, there are already so many Core Formation cultivators here, not to mention all those Foundation Establishment cultivators. This could be troublesome."
Lin Yun nodded and transmitted back, "Dealing with these people is still better than dealing with a Nascent Soul cultivator, isn't it?"
At his words, Nangong Wan's brow relaxed slightly. She said nothing more and watched the busy Fengle Merchant Alliance cultivators nearby with Lin Yun.
These cultivators did not dare approach the rocky mountain. All of them remained in an area a thousand zhang away from it.
For some reason, they had not cut down the surrounding forest to clear a space where they could use their