Yu Mingshan and the others had learned through messages exchanged with cultivators in other directions that cultivators suspected to be from the Five Immortals Sect had appeared again. Moreover, two Void Refinement Realm cultivators might have shown up afterward.
Through the covert contact of several peripheral informants, those two might have cultivated metal-element techniques. However, they were extraordinarily vigilant, so no one dared to track them by force.
Before long, the suspected cultivators would often vanish without a trace once more, but the Yin-Yang Chaos Sect did not care about that.
They themselves were the tempting slab of fat. As long as that bait remained here, the prey would appear again and again, until it could no longer resist taking a bite...
This time, Yu Mingshan and Sha Weigang had barely received the order to return to the Qianyu Sect before hurrying all the way back to their sect. Along the road, they remained constantly on guard against Five Immortals Sect cultivators. Only when they neared the Qianyu Sect did they restore their cultivation.
From the conversation between the two, Li Yan had learned what he had not heard earlier: Yu Mingshan and Sha Weigang's speculation about the deeper meaning of ordering them back.
If they were no longer to concern themselves with the plan they had painstakingly laid over the past few years, did that mean their martial uncle was already drawing in his forces? If people continued watching over those arrangements, they might instead expose flaws.
What they had done over these years was meant to lure the enemy deep in. At the very least, in the area under the responsibility of the two of them, they had cast out quite a few baits, some real and some false.
And the outer regions were absolutely not the place