This sudden turn of events had caught Bai Sanli completely off guard and disrupted his original plan.
Faced with this situation, he had no choice but to reconsider whether he should make a move now.
He possessed more than enough strength to kill Yang Lingrui and the other two, but they could not possibly offer no resistance during a battle of techniques.
A genuine Gold Ranking prodigy ranked near the top of the third page, coupled with the many trump cards he might possess—it would certainly take some time to kill him.
And the situation at hand seemed rather urgent.
If killing Yang Lingrui delayed him and cost him his own life here, then it would hardly be worth it.
Thus, after weighing matters for only a brief moment, he ultimately chose to suppress his intentions. He released the power of Wind Method to aid Yang Lingrui, intending to leave this Place of Hidden Treasures first before making further plans.
Yet it was precisely this seemingly insignificant hesitation that made his movements a fraction slower than those of the other wind-path cultivator.
With Yang Lingrui's keen senses, he naturally noticed that subtle difference.
Bai Sanli's cultivation was clearly superior to that other wind-path cultivator's, and he had always been exceptionally sharp, his reactions faster than the latter's.
Then, under such urgent circumstances, when Yang Lingrui had already made it clear that everyone was in danger, Bai Sanli's actions should not have been slower than the other wind-path cultivator's.
The only explanation was that, at that moment, aside from the looming crisis of life and death, he had been contemplating something else.
"So it really was you. It seems that feeling of killing intent I sensed earlier was not an illusion."
As a cultivator who also cultivated the Killing Dao, Yang