The very first day he had been on duty after meeting Niu Youdao, the formation gate had opened, and the Fox Clan had immediately contacted him. That alone spoke volumes about what that fire had accomplished.
A single fire had burned him out, brought them into contact, and persuaded him to join them in the same foul waters.
Using that fire as a pretext, Ding Wei had brought him into Boundless Garden again to meet Niu Youdao, where they had openly held further discussions under Boundless Garden's surveillance.
Together with the results now before him, he realized that Niu Youdao had put a great deal of thought into that fire.
It was clear that, in order to steal the Boundless Fruit, that bastard Niu Youdao had gone to enormous lengths. Ao Feng muttered to himself inwardly.
Trapped inside Boundless Garden, he knew nothing of the situation outside. Otherwise, he would have understood why Niu Youdao had chosen this particular moment to set the fire.
In any case, the more he sensed Niu Youdao's careful planning, the more his anxious heart could settle. After all, this was no ordinary undertaking. The slightest slip would cost him his head and his life.
"Indeed!" Wei Ye nodded at that, letting out a sigh of feeling.
With the beetle in hand, Ao Feng did not dare inspect it then and there. He endured until the following morning, when he had changed shifts with the next guard and returned to his lodgings, before taking out the beetle trapped in his sleeve.
He examined the beetle from head to tail, unable to tell how the object in its abdomen had been placed inside. The only possibility was that it had been stuffed in through its rear.
He carefully used his arts to force the object out