The Sun City City Lord wanted to hurry back and seal the Moon City City Lord, but Crimson Purgatory Demon Lord saw through this scheme at once. Or rather, Crimson Purgatory Demon Lord had appeared here precisely to hold back the Sun City City Lord.
If he were allowed to return, would all his previous efforts not have gone to waste?
To rescue the Moon City City Lord, they had not only needed thorough preparations and expended enormous resources and connections, but even some of the pawns they had planted in Sun City over countless years had to be exposed. Otherwise, how could they have so easily stirred the entire city into chaos?
One had to know that Sun City was enormous—far larger than an ordinary world.
How could it be so easy to provoke chaos everywhere at once?
No one knew how many spies and undercover agents had been sacrificed for this operation alone. Once it was over, Sun City would certainly conduct a top-to-bottom purge. Anyone who had revealed even the slightest trace would be unable to escape death. Some had even reached the Emperor Lord Realm, having infiltrated the city countless years ago, yet they were now exposed for the sake of rescuing the Moon City City Lord.
Given the Sun City City Lord's cultivation, it would have been one thing if no signs had ever surfaced before. But now that they had been exposed, he would need only moments to deduce everything.
After paying such a massive price, if they still failed to free the Moon City City Lord, it would truly be like losing both the wife and the soldiers.
Thus, despite being continuously targeted by all kinds of War Fortresses and crushed beneath the barrier, he could only force himself to endure. He could