Ten Virtues Courtyard, main building conference room.
"So, they set a trap well in advance and waited for us there..." He Qiang paced back and forth. "The plan was only finalized this morning. It's unlikely our movements were too obvious and alerted them. You even used illusions to simulate the people who left... Divination, peering into Tian Ji, methods like that shouldn't have been able to pinpoint the time, place, and event so accurately. I used corresponding interference abilities..."
"The truth is unclear; there may be a hidden ghost." Liu Xiaoxiao spoke gravely.
"A mole... It's not impossible. After all, some of those at the Masquerade Ball were outside hires." He Qiang pondered. "The question is, who leaked the information..."
"First, we can rule out the few of us. None of our group has been contaminated or replaced by anything strange, so that much isn't a problem." Liu Xiaoxiao said. "Of the rest, Long Wuhuang and Hu Jie are fine. We even saved Tong Yu's mother, so he has even less reason to betray us. Then there's..."
"You suspect Zhang Geyang?" He Qiang narrowed his eyes.
"If Qian Gu Dieting could go to the Masquerade Ball, then Zhang Geyang isn't impossible either. He did play a villain on another worldline, after all." Liu Xiaoxiao rubbed his chin with one hand. "And if he doesn't become a villain on this worldline, who knows where Tang Wulin's Ninth Spirit Ring will come from."
"It's not entirely without reason, but I still think that deduction is a bit too forced." He Qiang shook his head. "What about the others? What are the backgrounds of those from the Worship Hall?"
"Long Xuan, Branch Head of the Long Family; Fei Xuanxu, Branch Head of the Fei Family; Fei Xingyun of the Fei Family; Leng Lingxin