Shen Fangting let out a triumphant laugh. After suffering setbacks at the hands of the Battle Hall squad over the past few years, she hadn't been idle. Utilizing the intelligence resources of the Blood Shadow Tower, she had gained a general understanding of the backgrounds of these Battle Hall members—as the name implied, they were the most combat-hardened disciples from the original Beixuan Sect.
During their last encounter, they had fought to a stalemate, but it appeared a physician had emerged among the Battle Hall personnel to heal them. Throughout the war between the Beixuan Sect and White Maple Valley, that very physician had played a pivotal role. It was Chen Yi, an inner sect disciple of the Alchemy Hall. The Blood Shadow Tower had thoroughly investigated the relationship between Chen Yi and the Battle Hall elder’s disciple, Gong Qingshui, tracing it all the way back to their origins in the mortal world.
The Blood Shadow Tower had subsequently dispatched two waves of assassins, yet both failed to kill the physician. As a gold-grade assassin, Shen Fangting had later been tasked with investigating the deaths of those two silver-grade assassins and searching the Beixuan Sect for a hidden Tier 3 soul-path cultivator, but she found nothing. That pursuit eventually led to the great battle.
Chapter 140