"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh..."
Figures leaped out one after another from the South City Gate.
At their head were Xi, chief of the Aberrant Division, and Yu Zhiwen, chief of the Dao Department.
Of the Heaven Group members stationed in the Four Symbols Secret Realm, apart from Ao Sheng, who remained behind with a small squad, everyone else had been pulled out.
The Heaven Group operation had failed!
At least, in the eyes of ninety percent of the Heaven Group members, this was without question another crushing defeat for the Dao Hall Master! So many men had been deployed, even Demi-Saints had been used, and it had gone so far as to involve the power of a Sacred Emperor. A vast net had been woven so far in advance, all to capture Xu Xiaoshou...
Forget Xu Xiaoshou—even if Ba Zunan had come, they probably could have scooped him up in one sweep and taken him down.
Yet Xu Xiaoshou had simply grown larger, torn the net apart, and escaped with effortless ease.
What a giveaway, Dao Hall Master! Still, everyone could only think such things in private. Under no circumstances could they say them aloud.
The Dao Hall Master was still struggling...
What he had told his subordinates was that the true Heaven Group operation was only beginning now.
In the past, many people had mindlessly worshipped the unfathomable Dao Qiongchang—the so-called Dao fanatics.
But after the defeats on Void Island and in the Four Symbols Secret Realm, most people had sobered up.
Dao had run out of tricks.
Perhaps... that was possible?
Yet no matter what, as long as the Ten-Person Council had not stripped him of the title "Dao Hall Master," and as long as Heaven Group members were not permitted to defy orders, they had to obey—even if