"I wouldn't call it dividing your forces. I merely went with the flow."
"Since you believed I came here with an ulterior motive, everything I did was only natural. After all, we're both scheming, aren't we?"
The Hall Master of Cangwu Hall smiled faintly.
In an instant, an unaccountable fury flared within Shen Yi.
The Flame of Continued Combustion had yet to react, but his terrifying pressure had already brought everything around him to a freezing point. Aoyue's gaze trembled violently. To her horror, she discovered that even if she wanted to summon her authority's power to protect herself in advance, she couldn't!
Before Aoyue could react, Shen Yi's overwhelming power clamped down on the Cangwu Hall Master. The Black Fog was no trivial matter now. If another outbreak occurred within the world anytime soon, eighty or ninety percent of it might be wiped out outright. Only after returning to the Holy Land did Shen Yi realize that the earlier changes in its rules had never been any fucking turbulence. The Cangwu Hall Master had clearly made preparations in advance. Now, all it would take was to seal off the rules within the Holy Land completely, and the entire place would become an impregnable fortress. With reserves formidable enough that even the Flame of Continued Combustion had to take them seriously, resisting the Black Fog would naturally be no problem. At the very least, it would hold out far longer than the territories of other Authority Holders.
The Cangwu Hall Master had planned everything from the very beginning.
He knew nothing good would happen once Shen Yi arrived in the Holy Land, and had prepared several countermeasures in advance. He had even more or less anticipated that Shen Yi would sway the other Lords of the Holy Land.
Even if