"Others..."

Li Luo felt a lump in his throat which he swallowed. Not an answer he had expected.

When he had learned of the Nobles' Battlefield, where Kings and Dukes marched relentlessly in to die, Li Luo had known the Others were to be feared. And yet there had been this sense of disjunct - the Others were far away, a problem he only had to deal with when he neared Duke strength. 

And now Jiang Qing'e was telling him that there were Others in the Umbra Cave under Astral Sage College!

So they had always been nearby?

"The Others are not just confined to the Nobles' Battlefield. They are entering our world through rifts...