Just then, the cultivators behind him were also discussing the prodigies before them.
From their words, Bai Sanli learned the identity of the white-robed cultivator.
"Azure Wind Mandate Official Yang Lingrui. So it was him."
Bai Sanli thought to himself, A Gold Ranking prodigy at the very bottom, and from the borderlands besides. I hadn't paid him much attention before. Who would have thought he'd come here too?
As he was thinking this, he learned from the conversation behind him about Yang Lingrui's earlier clash with Teng Shechuan.
When he learned that this man's strength had already reached the level of the top five on the third page of the Gold Ranking, surprise could not help but rise in Bai Sanli's eyes.
"Oh? He had grown this quickly?"
Taking all the information revealed in the cultivators' words behind him into account, Bai Sanli reassessed Yang Lingrui's strength in his mind.
"In that case, this man indeed has tremendous value as an assassination target. He also comes from the same clan as the Vaulting Dragon Lord on the second page. If I can deal with him, it should affect that Dragon Lord's Dao Heart as well."
At that thought, a faint, inscrutable smile appeared on Bai Sanli's face. "This truly is an unexpected delight. If I cannot find a suitable chance to strike at Yun Xiwu and Jiang Yinkong later, I can consider him instead. Having come all this way, how could I not make the righteous path bleed a little?"
Once he had formed a plan, Bai Sanli slipped into the crowd behind him.
Yet the moment he had cast his gaze in this direction, the divination prodigy from Yantian Palace had noticed him as well.
Jiang Yinkong lightly crossed three fingers, then sent a Thought Transmission to Yang Lingrui