At 5 a.m. to 7 a.m., the sky had largely brightened.
The group of Five Spirits Sect members waiting at the foot of the eastern side of Smoke Lamp Slope had naturally taken their places around the ambush site.
Their preparation was evidently comprehensive; to describe it as an all-encompassing net wouldn't be an exaggeration.
Had Double Xie and the others begun their journey at sunrise as originally planned, they probably would have been captured by now.
But whether it was a case of a blessing in disguise or a stroke of misfortune akin to losing a horse, Sun Yixie's accidental release of the "Thirteen Death Zodiacs" had, instead, allowed everyone to escape calamity.
At this moment, Daoist Liang and Linghu Xiang, along with Jiang Muchan and Qin Feng, were following a mountain path toward the western side of Smoke Lamp Slope, trying to find a relatively gentle slope to search for the four individuals who had fallen off the cliff, as well as the other twelve "corpses."
