"Ahahaha, marvelous!"
"This is truly marvelous! It deserves a standing ovation!"
At the ruins of Solitary Sound Cliff, Water Ghost pushed up the half golden beast mask on his face with the heel of his palm, staring unblinkingly into the void ahead.
Though there was clearly nothing before him, he seemed to be watching a mundane stage play, laughing so hard he kept slapping his thigh.
In truth, there was no deep sea beneath Solitary Sound Cliff.
The entire sea here was Water Ghost's domain.
Well...
"Domain" was not quite the right word.
Strictly speaking, Water Ghost's domain had already fused with the inner world of the Sea-Taming Divine Trident, becoming something akin to an alternate-dimensional space.
Naturally, as the master of the deep-sea domain, if Water Ghost wished to see what was happening within, a single glance was all it took.
At present, he was watching Huangquan, Five Declines of Heaven and Man, and the Jiang Clan's Half-Saint confront one another, while also watching the Half-Saint incarnation of Jiang Buyi, whom Xu Xiaoshou had lured before the Void Gate, meet Rao Yaoyao and the others with a completely befuddled expression.
"Absolutely brilliant!"
Water Ghost could not suppress the smile on his face. He shook his head and sighed in admiration.
He had used the Sea Mirage Pearl and a Heaven-Deceiving, Sea-Crossing Great Dao retrospection method to lure the true bodies of Jiang Buyi and Huangquan into the sea. He had thought this scheme exquisitely ingenious, a masterstroke.
Who would have thought that he only wanted Jiang Buyi's head?
With one turn of the hand, Xu Xiaoshou had cast his net over the entire Jiang Clan's Half-Saint lineage.
Through Dao Qiongchang's disciple, Situ Yongen, he had pinned the crime of "plotting to seize the Holy Emperor's position" on Jiang Buyi,