Around 500 meters away from Li Ling, a single Foundation Establishment practitioner along with around a dozen Qi Refinement fellows were lying in wait, their eyes full of a mixture of despair and defiance.
They were well concealed at their hiding place, even utilizing a Grade 2 Concealment Array that their Ancestor had personally kept as his trophy when he was still a rogue cultivator. This array gave them camouflage against even the spirit sense of Foundation Establishment cultivators, but offered no protection against Core Formation enemies or any divinatory methods.
"Ancestor, will this really work?" A female cultivator at the peak of Qi Refinement close in position to the Foundation Establishment cultivator - who seemed to also be their ancestor - asked with trepidation.
