A silver moon hung in the sky, and two figures stood motionless beneath Snow Cliff.
Zhao Ling and Linghu Qingmo watched cautiously from the breach in the cliff wall. To prevent Coal Ball from being ambushed by flying Transcendent Grade cultivators, they also beckoned Coal Ball down to shelter beside them.
Shen Jinyu stood on a boulder with the Three-Foot Black Blade in hand. Faced with Xie Jinhuan's provocation, having already witnessed the young man's explosive power, he chose not to charge straight at him. Instead, he lightly turned his wrist, and the black sword in his hand gave a low hum.
Humm-
The next instant, invisible Gang Qi spread through the surroundings, radiating a bone-piercing chill!
Moisture condensed in the previously clear night sky, forming a thick fog that concealed Snow Cliff and Shen Jinyu's figure. Then snowflakes silently drifted down from the mist, filling the sky.
Hovering in the air, Xie Jinhuan could sense a murderous sharpness emanating from every snowflake. Like countless doubles within the fog, they completely submerged Shen Jinyu, whose presence had already been difficult to trace.
Nor were the snowflakes merely a diversion. One drifted down across his robes and instantly sliced a tear in the bloodstained white fabric.
Slash, slash-
Xie Jinhuan frowned. His Protective Gang Qi swept through everything around him, instantly clearing a space ten zhang across around his body, while his gaze searched the thick fog.
A Piao, who had already possessed him, also sensed the changes in the surrounding Qi, finally marking out the faint outline of a fat man in the mist:
"This man is exceptionally good at concealment. Don't let your guard down."
Ye Hongshang's sensing range topped out at a hundred zhang, growing clearer at closer distances. But at the upper-middle Transcendent Grade, both spells and