A party of nine cultivators surged forward at full speed. Every one of them was a Foundation Establishment Initiate! Their combined strength would have been formidable under any other circumstance, yet on this day, their fortune had run dry.

At the start of the battle, they were all struck by a volley from the Falling Cloud Sect's puppet army, and because they were caught off guard, every single one of them was wounded. After barely escaping that barrage, they decided to retreat through the flank. Eight of them now followed behind their most heavily injured member, a cultivator at the late stage of Foundation Establishment. For good reason; he wasn't just any cultivator. He was a True Inheritor of the Jade Cauldron Sword Sect! Even wounded, such a man was not one to be taken lightly.

As they raced through the terrain, a few kept nervously glancing back.

"True Inheritor Lan, the Falling Cloud Sect cultivators are still on our tail!...