Reflecting back now, when Li Fan had engaged with the assassins under the Marshal of Xun Country, he had realized that his opponents were quite formidable, far surpassing the level of mere rubbish. Although they lacked some secret techniques passed down directly from the sect leaders, they indeed used the Beichen Sect's lethal moves.
At that time, Li Fan had thought that perhaps the Beichen Sect's secret manuals were widely circulated. It turned out that these people did indeed possess some inheritances. They weren't just falsely claiming the prestige of the Beichen Sect. Zhang Chongyang's promise that the Grand Tutor's mansion would intervene to rebuild the Beichen Sect might not just be an empty talk after all—they might truly intend to revive the Beichen Sect!
But it was still unknown whether these were Beichen Sect remnants left over in the Central Plains, or if they had received the inheritance of Xuantian, truly belonging to Li Fan's fellow disciples...
