These five cultivators consisted of four Black Mask Alliance protectors who had abandoned Qiao Ruohe, and their leader, Bingying, whom they revered as their master. Down below, in a plain at the foot of Lingyin Mountain, tiny flickers of fire waxed and waned.
Riding his Hidden Sword, Qiao Ruohe trailed two zhang or so behind the five. Though he did not completely conceal his breathing, none of them detected his presence. Although the Extreme Yin Plane had already revealed that the Hidden Sword could keep him hidden even beside a Deity Transformation cultivator, verifying this bizarre property of the Dharma Treasure once again beside the physical forms of several Form Manifestation cultivators finally set his mind completely at ease as he followed along.
Instead of entering the mountain gates of Lingyin Mountain, they circled the mountain at a slow glide, though they dared not venture within three thousand paces of the back mountain for fear of the Wood Dragon sensing their spiritual aura.
Chapter 331