Phoenix Yi and the cursed group are clearly preparing for a major move.

What about gradually raiding tombs or attacking dynasties step by step?

Too foolish.

Those are tasks for other cultivators.

Their target is to block the entrance immediately, capture the true form of the Emperor of Longevity, and directly terminate this mausoleum.

Or perhaps take the most critical treasure of this tomb; after all, the best items are surely with the tomb owner.

In the following days, the cursed group continuously began to sift through documents, narrowing the scope among tens of thousands of guests.

Yet, as they were stalled in progress, other tomb raider teams had significant gains.

Various tomb raiding cultivators continuously identified the ecological structure of this ancient tomb, collected information on various plants and animals, and compared them to the present world.

With the assistance of the Eye of Identification, an outline of the entire Longevity Dynasty gradually emerged.

Many teams have earned substantial profits.

Ambushes!

Demon hunting!

Attacking citizens!

Transporting residents away!

Even assaults on the court, cities...

A great number of Demon Cultivator attacks surfaced in the Longevity Dynasty, which started to become wary, as some people already realized the tomb raiders had arrived.

These bastards began madly digging everywhere!

This is tomb raiding and moving house.

Initially, everyone's strategy was blitzkrieg.

Impossible to give you a chance to react, quickly resolving this imperial mausoleum of the Longevity Dynasty, striving to complete it within a month. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

And within just a few days, Between the Dawn rapidly became lively.

It transformed into a bustling adventure town, with countless Two-Phase Realm cultivators coming and going.

Even a merit board hung on the wall.

Someone has already managed to redeem a shop, stirring envy among others.

At this time, Li Youzhu and Jiao Wuyu, as two major Ghost Kings, roamed the streets here, observing everywhere, also preparing to enter the tomb, to explore the history and culture of the ancient Longevity Dynasty.

"So many Demon Cultivators, they don't need merit to acquire shops."

Jiao Wuyu remarked.

These Demon Cultivators gained shopfronts effortlessly, clearly having pledged allegiance to these Ancestor Demon Gods.

Along the way, they saw many infamous sect leaders from the Nine-State.

The Mother of Non-Life from the No-Life Sect was opening a shop, using Shadow Crocodile Divine Power to sell weapons!

Pretending to be part of the Xi Rong, selling weapons everywhere before is one thing, but now it's blatantly slapping the face of the Xi Rong lineage!

Openly selling fake goods, how brazen!

Some weapons crafted by Shadow Crocodile they examined were indeed exceptionally refined!

It's truly lamentable.

The Xi Rong lineage, to hide its identity, had never personally used Shadow Crocodile in forging, and now fake versions are using it instead.

If the fakes are already this great, one can only imagine how incredible the genuine Xi Rong is using Shadow Crocodile for forging.

"Spiritual Root outflow is a pain point for every force." Li Youzhu sighed, "Such matters must be pursued relentlessly."

They also saw a shopfront.

The Hehuan Female Demon from the Hehuan Sect was opening a brothel.

The Heaven Fallen Demon from the Fallen Ancestor Sect was selling ancestors, an extremely malevolent cult that steals your ancestors, then drags them around like dogs to fight against you, notorious for its wickedness!

Anyone who sees their ancestor being paraded around like a dog and then forced into a fight would explode with anger, a direct psychic attack.

What defines a Demon Sect?

This is a Demon Sect.

"What a feast for demons!"

"These Ancestor Demon Gods collected a group of human demon traitors within days; this is already a major force for the Great Demon Sect gathering."

"It seems this Between the Dawn is indeed provoking the human Xi Rong."

Li Youzhu walked into the No-Life Sect's weapon shop, picked up an Immortal Artifact long sword forged by Shadow Crocodile for inspection:

"They even named it Swollen Eyes, Puffy Eyes, Blind Eyes... it seems the Xi Rong lineage has been deeply infiltrated."

"Yes."

Jiao Wuyu said: "When I spoke with them, they mentioned that the four of them are responsible for external affairs of Xi Rong, and it's likely their internal intelligence got leaked."

On this point, they are quite certain!

Other Nine-State cultivators unaware of Swollen Eyes, Puffy Eyes, Blind Eyes only assume the opposing side is teasing the Xi Rong's responsible individuals with similar-sounding names.

They, however, know these three truly exist within the Xi Rong, even in charge of external expansion matters!

This is a provocation to the Xirong Divine Craftsman, implying: your inside has already been infiltrated by us.

It's likely now that the Xi Rong force's internal structure is exploding in fury.

As for how this ancient manipulator knows these three names?

Li Youzhu speculated.

Possibility 1:

The Vice Sect Leader of No-Life Sect previously infiltrated the Xi Rong's secretly developing force, even stole their Shadow Crocodile spiritual root, cultivating the No-Life Whale.

During the No-Life Sect's raid years ago, they might have recognized the names of the four high-ranking Eye of Identification individuals.

Now.

No-Life Sect's allegiance, disclosing Xi Rong's intelligence, borrowing similar names to disgust them, this is the provocation of these Ancestor Demon Gods.

Possibility 2:

The opponent's water eye, during the Nine-State incident before, happened to cover the hiding spot of the Xirong Divine Craftsman.

A sudden wave of rain caught the Xirong force's hidden location within its range, and some cultivators lost their sight.

So, they seized some of Xirong's information at that time.

This is not impossible.

Because judging from the combat wisdom of the Ancestor Demon God, it's very possible to openly attack Xin Xichen while secretly ambushing the Xirong Manor Master.

This large-scale rainfall, first one ancestor used thunder, another used rain, the two went to great lengths, was it really just a salute?

Would they really spend such a high cost?

Unlikely.

It's more inclined towards the two ancestors working together, in fact conducting a large-scale search, capturing Xirong successfully where the rain covered.

In places unknown to them, Xirong also had a battle with the Ancestor Demon God.

So it seems, the Xirong lineage suffered a loss!

Previously, the major forces of the Nine-State were crazily trying to track Xirong through the Earth Veins, but a group of Ancestor Demon Gods succeeded instead.

Just goes to show, the ancient overlords were truly scary in their calculations.

Jiao Wuyu listened to the analysis, raised an eyebrow, and added, "There's also a third possibility."

"After all, simply knowing three names, it's too easy to reveal it."

"It might even be that Eyebag inadvertently disclosed his three friends while managing Xirong Academy, which was known by the Demon Sect spies, who then conveyed this information to the opponent?"

There are too many possibilities!

Li Youzhu analyzed seriously:

"They have already gradually exposed the identity list of Xirong's high ranks... It can't be hidden anymore, actually, the Xirong lineage being unable to hide was a matter of time."

"A force constantly interacting externally will definitely be discovered, Emperor of the Human Race promoting this Eye of Identification, not likely without the intent to totally cover and capture the Xirong lineage."

This old fox Xin Xichen might indeed have this intention.

"Hehehe."

Jiao Wuyu also laughed, finding it amusing:

"Looking at it now, the Ancestor Demon God's rain and the Xin Dynasty Emperor's Eye of Identification both extensively cover the Nine-State Four Seas, are all targeting Xirong?"

...

...

In the shadows.

Blind watched this scene, exhaled a long breath of muddy Qi, and said with a proud face:

"The mystery is right on the surface of the mystery..."

"But, Li Youzhu wouldn't guess... He and Xin Xichen share the same paranoia, the smarter someone is, the more they tend to overthink."

What more can you guess?

Suppose I, Xirong, am truly the Ancestor Demon God, why would I expose the names of my internal members for no reason?

Would I make such a stupid move just to show off? To reveal both names are me?

However, a blacksmith would really do something that stupid, something so meaningless.

Their logic isn't that of normal people, it's unpredictable.

They can die hundreds for a small NPC, they can climb mountains, slay monsters, cross wastelands for a delivery quest.

They are just a bunch of lunatics.

...

Sword Casting Manor.

"The mystery is right on the surface... these consecutive moves are kind of slick." Puffy Eyes thought for a while, then said, "It's like a serial murder case."

Night Mad Cultivator nodded, showing approval: "Not bad, consecutively fooling two high-intelligence figures... using the same trick, we've directly transformed into high-intelligence serial killers."

Obviously, the blacksmith is showing off again.

Throughout the entire player development history, the smartest natives encountered were nothing more than Li Youzhu, Xin Xichen, Jiu Shui...

Jiu Shui has been missing for too long, so let's not mention him.

They need to teach these two natives a lesson: The mystery is on the surface!

After all, without defeating them once, the mind always feels a bit uneasy.

"Hahahaha! Refreshing, finally refreshing!"

"You all went to great lengths, arranged so many plans, just for something without actual meaning?"

"A bunch of lunatics."

"Don't you understand, playing the game is just about having fun?"

"Do you think they can guess it or not?"

...

A group of people laughed heartily.

At this moment, Ning Zheng, who had just walked into the Sword Casting Manor gates, pressed his temples, veins slightly bulging from anger.

Initially, he felt the blacksmith was always reliable, but lately, he's been paying less and less attention to them.

Who knew, after just a few days without monitoring them, they've completely fallen in love with acting?

These players, truly love courting death! They really deserve to die!

Simply getting more and more arrogant.

"Jiucai Rong, come over here." Ning Zheng's face looked grim.

"Me?" Jiucai Rong pointed at his own nose, feeling something was off.

Finally, under Ning Zheng's threat to replace the person in charge, and after deducting some of their resources, Jiucai Rong was scared to the point of bitterly complaining, nodding like a pecking chick, indicating he would never mess around again.