After receiving the notice, Senior Brother Yan, Zhao Qian, and Sun Chongyang soon arrived at Song Wanyi's side to take part in calculating the positions for the Little Immortal-Slaying Formation. In fact, at everyone's level, they were already extremely familiar with the Eight Trigrams and the Strange Gates. This included Xiao Jiao. To cultivate to this point, aside from talent, one also had to be the sort who was born knowing; what was more, she obeyed my every word. Wherever I told her to stand, she would never run off. That was far more precious than having someone uncontrollable...
Duanmu Yao's strength was no weaker than Xijun's, while I needed to personally persuade her. Thus, while the two True Gods were battling spells, I took the opportunity to approach Duanmu Yao and transmitted, "Fellow Daoist Duanmu, when gods and immortals fight, no matter who wins, the result is the same for us. They possess the key to purifying the world, as well as the Octagonal Star Compass. Once they ascend to the God Realm, with no one restricting their strength, they'll inevitably run rampant. We'll merely be objects for them to butcher. Since we're all facing the same crisis, I hope Fellow Daoist Duanmu can stand on my side. When the time comes, we can resist our powerful enemies together."
Duanmu Yao glanced at me, then at Zhou Qiping and Zu Ziyi. She said, "Zu Ziyi absolutely cannot be trusted, but that may not be true of Fellow Daoist Zhou. We've worked together before as well. How can you make such a definitive judgment?"
"There's no need to make a judgment. You can't definitively say that Zhou Qiping is a good person either, can you? Then why not carry one more skill for protection? If either Zu Ziyi or Zhou