Simultaneous Action 2

Lu Zhihui was beginning to regret making a deal with Yun Po. Looking at the Inner Ring, which had practically been razed to the ground, his expression was anything but pleasant.

Yun Po stood beside Lu Zhihui, all smiles as he said:

"Rest assured, Fellow Daoist Lu. Once we take down the evil cultivators, we will certainly restore this place to its original state."

He had not expected the evil cultivators to be so ruthless. They had actually used self-detonation to break through the Isolation Formation Yunxi had set up merely for show. Fortunately, Yunxi had reacted swiftly and deployed a barrier at once. Otherwise, the aftermath of the explosion would have spread into the outer ring.

Lu Zhihui knew that this was no longer something that could simply be stopped. Since it involved evil cultivators, even if he did not help, he could not hold the human cultivators back. He could only say with a dark expression:

"You had better keep your word!"

"Certainly, certainly!"

Yun Po immediately replied with a smile, then added a reminder:

"Fellow Daoist Lu, the commotion here is rather great. Shouldn't you soothe the Demon Beasts in the mountain range that have been disturbed, lest it accidentally trigger a Beast Tide?"

This time, Lu Zhihui took Yun Po's reminder to heart. With a slight nod, he vanished from where he stood.

Only then did Yun Po turn his gaze into the barrier. Yunxi and Han Qingwen had already begun fighting.

Inside the barrier

Yunxi gripped the Seven-Star Deadly Staff and said coldly:

"Master Han, that is hardly honorable of you. Why were you playing this little game of stalking people?"

If Han Qingwen still did not realize that he had fallen into a trap, then he had been Master of the tower for nothing.