Jiang Lingyue instinctively glanced back at the person behind her, but didn’t pay much attention.
This person she knew was indeed from Dan Peak.
Turning back, Jiang Lingyue muttered about the despicable Lu Ye in her heart as she headed down the mountain.
Soon, after descending Dan Peak, Jiang Lingyue had only walked a short distance when the Tier Two Alchemist who had been trailing her suddenly quickened their steps.
The alchemist quickly approached Jiang Lingyue, and seeing that the surroundings were devoid of others, seized this opportune moment—then suddenly raised their hand.
Afterward, they softly called out...
"Jiang Lingyue..."
Upon suddenly hearing her name, Jiang Lingyue instinctively turned around.
"Fellow Daoist Zhou, do you need something?"
Seeing the alchemist surnamed Zhou, Jiang Lingyue was just about to inquire when she noticed that the opposite party abruptly raised their hand...
Boom!
A cloud of powder exploded right before her eyes!
Caught off guard, Jiang Lingyue naturally didn’t manage to hold her breath and inhaled a bit.
Realizing that something was wrong, Jiang Lingyue immediately held her breath and said warily, "Fellow Daoist Zhou, why are you doing this?!"
Finishing her sentence, she immediately retreated while shouting loudly, "There’s an undercover agent here!"
Through the unusual actions of the Zhou alchemist, Jiang Lingyue already had a faint guess about this person’s identity.
But just as Jiang Lingyue finished yelling, the Zhou alchemist sneered coldly, "Stop shouting, I’ve set up a soundproof array plate around us, which my family ancestor spent quite a bit of silver on. Even a Grandmaster Realm cultivator might not be able to perceive it, let alone the two Grandmasters from Wuxiang Sect, who aren’t paying attention here at all."
Given the significance of the matter, although this Zhou alchemist’s alchemy skills couldn’t compare to Jiang Lingyue’s, their cultivation level was higher.
They could create an isolation shield themselves.
But to be safe, the Zhou Family Ancestor directly brought out a Tier Four array plate this time!
However, what the Zhou alchemist hadn’t anticipated was that, right after Jiang Lingyue shouted...
On the distant Dan Peak, the Sect Leader of the Wuxiang Sect and others about to leave were stunned, then instantly furious.
The voice they immediately recognized as Jiang Lingyue’s.
And what she was shouting about made all the Wuxiang Sect’s high-ranking members boil over.
An undercover agent?!
From the looks of it, they were about to make a move on the biggest hope for Wuxiang Sect’s rise. Otherwise, Jiang Lingyue wouldn’t be shouting like this!
Swish, swish, swish...
In that instant, several figures, all beyond Innate Late Stage, rushed downhill.
Each one bore an expression of grim determination.
In an instant, those figures arrived.
The Zhou alchemist, having just spoken, looked up and was shocked pale at the descending figures from Wuxiang Sect.
He didn’t understand why this was happening.
Wasn’t the Tier Four array plate supposed to block even the detection of a Martial Arts Grandmaster?!
Otherwise, he wouldn’t have dared to do such a thing within the sect with a few guts.
In moments, the Tier Two Alchemist was locked onto by several powerful presences; any further action would be met with immediate annihilation.
The reason he wasn’t killed right away was mainly to inquire with Jiang Lingyue about what transpired.
"Nephew Jiang, hehe, just now we heard your words from above. What’s going on?" The Sect Leader of the Wuxiang Sect withdrew his piercing gaze from the Tier Two Alchemist.
When it landed on Jiang Lingyue, his face had transformed into a brilliant smile.
Before Jiang Lingyue could speak, another Sect Elder who followed closely sniffed the air doubtfully.
"No, there’s a lingering scent of the Enchanting Soul Pill in the air!"
Immediately, this Elder glared at the trembling Tier Two Alchemist.
"Did you do this?!"
Jiang Lingyue hurriedly nodded, pointing at the Zhou alchemist to say.
"It was him. He was following me down the mountain and suddenly attacked me, claiming he used a shielding array plate. He said nobody in the sect could detect anything here."
"Well, well, well, I didn’t expect to have such talent within Wuxiang Sect. I really didn’t see it before."
Having listened and linking it with the lingering scent of the Enchanting Soul Pill spoken by the Elder, the Sect Leader of Wuxiang Sect was enraged, smiling wryly.
Glaring at the Zhou Tier Two Alchemist, he wanted nothing more than to eat him alive.
They were so close... so close to letting this undercover agent succeed!
Thud!
A palm was slammed directly onto the Tier Two Alchemist’s dantian, destroying his cultivation instantly. The Wuxiang Sect Leader shouted harshly.
"Someone, lock him up! Also, investigate his background, I want to know who dared to try uprooting my Wuxiang Sect’s foundation!"
"Ah?!"
With his dantian destroyed, the Zhou Tier Two Alchemist screamed in agony, his face contorted with pain.
At this moment, his heart harbored more anger towards the Zhou Family.
If they hadn’t suddenly contacted him to do such things, he could have stayed well in Wuxiang Sect.
Moreover, if they wanted to do it, shouldn’t it be more reliable?
This so-called array plate that could block Martial Arts Grandmaster’s perception felt like complete junk, utterly useless!
Otherwise, even if it had slightly worked, it wouldn’t have been detected so quickly by Wuxiang Sect.
Carrying deep unwillingness, the already crippled Tier Two Alchemist was taken away.
Just then, there was suddenly some commotion from afar...
Three bewildered yet helpless figures were brought here by an invisible force.
Then, like humans falling from the sky, they all landed not far from the Wuxiang Sect Leader and others with a thud.
The Wuxiang Sect Leader and others exchanged looks, clueless about what was happening.
"..."
However, the Wuxiang Sect Leader quickly recognized one of the fallen individuals among the three.
"Fellow Daoist Zhou?"
Being an ancestor of the Grandmaster Clan, there weren’t many of them in the Northern Territory, just a few, how could the Wuxiang Sect Leader not know?
One couldn’t be too dim to be a sect leader, after all.
Soon, the Wuxiang Sect Leader’s expression changed, recalling something. Why did Zhou Family’s Ancestor appear here at this exact moment?
And the Tier Two Alchemist happened to bear the surname Zhou too!
In this world, there shouldn’t be such coincidences. If his guess was right, could it be...
Was the Zhou Family behind this with instigation?!