Scheming (4)

They were shocked by the bizarre scene before them. Though they had fought the Black Devil Race for so long, Nascent Soul cultivators still occasionally fell.

Yet even in an ambush assassination, neither side would ever lay a trap near the other's main stronghold. That meant risking discovery by Spirit Transformation cultivators.

One misstep, and they would be the ones to suffer losses first. To assassinate a Nascent Soul cultivator, one usually had to be at least a hundred thousand li away from the main stronghold.

"He encountered a Nascent Soul-level poison cultivator or a powerful venomous creature. After injuring him, the other party had already fled before Dongli Qing's aura could erupt.

By the time Dongli Qing's poison flared up and caused a disturbance, he realized it was already too late. He could no longer keep the other party behind and only struck empty air."

The handsome young man's cultivation was slightly higher than Shangguan Changge's, making him the strongest among the four. With a flash, he arrived before Dongli Qing's mangled corpse, while the spiritual energy barrier around his body grew even brighter.

He finally focused his attention on Dongli Qing and quickly reached a conclusion.

"But we did not sense any Nascent Soul cultivator or demonic beast aura appearing nearby?"

As one burly old man spoke, he first glanced at the handsome young man. Seeing nothing unusual about him, he too flashed over to Dongli Qing's side.

"That only means the other party possessed an exceptionally powerful method of concealing their aura. Or perhaps the other party was simply a low- or mid-level cultivator, and the murderer might not necessarily have been a poison cultivator.

"Look at this poison. If any of us had been struck by it, none of us would have escaped unharmed. Casting a