Li Yan had not expected capturing the newcomer to be so effortless. These "Returning Home Army" soldiers truly were experts, every single one of them.
The moment he suggested waiting here with bait, they had arranged every remaining detail in perfect order, and every preparation had served its intended purpose.
"As expected of the elite of 'Returning Home.' They really are formidable!"
Li Yan felt genuine admiration.
Jin Nineteen had learned from the two shop attendants about the person who was coming to meet them. The newcomer's cultivation was higher than theirs, and he had appeared inside the room without their even noticing.
Thus, that person was either an expert in formations or possessed an art formula capable of controlling the formations here. This had also been the two shop attendants' guess.
Though their cultivation was inferior to his, they were no fools. They believed the latter possibility was more likely, and Jin Nineteen's group naturally would not overlook that point.
Therefore, in the subsequent ambush, they had not sent anyone to disguise themselves as the two shop attendants. That might still have required them to fight the newcomer and could have exposed a flaw too early.
Instead, they directly controlled the two attendants and left them there. They then gave the pair a certain antidote before spreading a poison throughout the entire courtyard.
Though they were not inscrutable poison cultivators like Li Yan, Jin Nineteen and the others were all experts in assassination and ambush. Naturally, they were equally adept at laying poison.
They also knew precisely what poison should be used and when it would be most suitable. They had no shortage of fine things in their possession.
Those were all varieties of poison that "Returning Home" had equipped them with at great expense, and they had judged