When they saw the great banner fly away, everyone else cheered, but Xu Ying inexplicably felt a chill run down his spine.
"It looks a bit like inviting someone into the urn. Put some bait in the urn and lure the fish inside. If they truly didn't want anyone to see Dao Master Ji Cang being suppressed within, they could simply form a formation with the four banners and suppress him inside. Yet now, for no apparent reason, one banner has flown away, giving people a chance to enter..."
Xu Ying's heart pounded wildly.
Earlier, he had planned to activate the Chaos Lotus and enter the Flag Gate Formation to investigate, but now he hesitated instead.
"This Forbidden Zone hasn't shown any movement, yet there's already word that Ji Cang is about to escape and is selecting disciples to teach them the Dao Master's cultivation method. It's obviously meant to draw people here."
He thought silently, Ji Cang's cultivation method is the bait. We people of Yuan Hunting have played this sort of trick too many times. The people of the Other Shore really haven't seen much—they don't know how to play their tricks as well as we do.
Jiang Huan, Feng Chang, Miao Qi, Wu Xiang, and the others each set off, walking toward the Forbidden Zone.
Although one great banner had flown away, leaving the Flag Gate Formation short of a banner and making it somewhat safer, three great banners still remained. It was still incredibly dangerous. They continued probing the way forward cautiously, not daring to move too quickly.
Meanwhile, powerful and extraordinary auras were rushing over from the distance one after another. The other Underground Immortals must have received the news as well.
"Dao Ancestor Xu, aren't we going in?" Daoist Wukong asked.
Xu Ying hesitated.