Kui Long!
The situation before Apex Celestial Palace was extremely delicate. Although the Heng Province Alliance had the advantage in numbers, it did not dare act rashly, fearing that it would force Gong Jian, Jiang Xuansu, Meng Qi, and Lin Bai to join forces against them.
Meng Qi also knew that he was badly outnumbered. In a one-on-one fight, at least three people here could overpower him by a wide margin: Jiang Xuansu, Gong Jian, and Murong Chuan. Thus, Meng Qi did not dare act recklessly either.
As for Jiang Xuansu and Gong Jian, they now wanted to hold Murong Chuan back before Apex Celestial Palace, buying time for the martial artists outside to surround and wipe out the Heng Province Alliance martial artists. They did not want to act prematurely, either.
Although Lin Bai had arrived brimming with eagerness to act, after seeing the situation clearly, he knew that all sides were restraining one another. A single tug would set the whole body in motion. Whoever struck first would surely become the common enemy of everyone present, so Lin Bai did not want to take the risk either.
Thus, the situation reached a stalemate. The nine people here all harbored their own schemes and thoughts.
In any case, it was still early, and Lin Bai was not in much of a hurry. He simply sat atop the Dao Heart Stone, took out the books on illusions he had obtained from his Storage Bag, and read them carefully, perfecting the power of his Asura Dharma Eyes and making the environments he created even more flawless.
Whether an illusionist's methods were brilliant depended first on how they could make a martial artist sink silently into an illusion. The second consideration was whether the illusion they created was seamless. An illusion riddled