"Though I do not know what method Fellow Daoist Wei used to enter this Turtle-Belly Space, Ye Ya and the other two clearly regard you as a threat... Heh, heh. Does this not count as walking straight into the net?"
The White-Robed Maiden's icy voice rang in Wei Tu's mind, heavy with mockery.
Yet to someone as seasoned in worldly dealings as Wei Tu, those words carried an entirely different meaning.
If they were truly hostile, they would have started fighting long ago. They would not deliberately needle him with words.
She was merely using the immense threat posed by this environment to force him to choose a side at once.
Thus, upon hearing this, Wei Tu did not hesitate in the slightest. Dispensing with empty pleasantries and getting straight to the point, his eyes flashed as he asked, "Does Fairy Xue mean to cooperate with Wei and deal with Ye Ya and Zhuang Changyou together?"
"It is possible for Wei to agree to cooperate. But Fairy Xue must also give Wei reason to trust you, lest Wei lift a rock only to smash his own foot and perish in regret within this Turtle-Belly Space."
Outside, he had array flags maintaining the barrier passage. He could fully rely on the Sky-Rending Eagle's Sky-Rending Escape to flee this place again, coming and going as he pleased. He would not be trapped in the danger of being besieged by both sides.
But... since he had dared enter this Turtle-Belly Space, he naturally had no desire to return empty-handed.
And to do that, like Ye Ya's group and the White-Robed Maiden's group, he would have to cross the Lava Sea and head for the towering, table-shaped buildings on its far shore.
Yet the crux of the problem was that the barrier passage's node