Afterward.
Everyone in the hall left.
The Rain Dragon Sage watched them go.
Only then did he ask in alarm, "My lord, isn't this too risky? That Li Yun comes and goes like a ghost. His strength is impossible to gauge, and his methods are strange. If he really sneaks into the Illusory World Tower, I'm afraid those who hold pages of the Illusory World Book won't be able to keep them. In the end, Ancestral City will have to bear the loss!"
Wan Shenfeng promptly laughed.
It was a rather smug laugh.
"You think I didn't guard against that?"
As he spoke.
He casually produced a stack of pages.
At the sight of them, the Rain Dragon Sage's eyes went so wide they nearly popped from their sockets.
"Th-this is the Illusory World Book?"
"So many... City Lord, how many pages are there?"
Wan Shenfeng smiled smugly.
"More than twenty-five hundred pages... You could say that, apart from the pages in Li Yun's hands, every page of the Illusory World Book scattered outside is here."
"What?"
The Rain Dragon Sage was stunned. Then it dawned on him.
"City Lord, you went to the holders yourself and collected their pages of the Illusory World Book?"
"Exactly!"
"I told them the news. Naturally, they were worried Li Yun would take their pages for nothing. I offered to gather them for safekeeping, and it was almost effortless."
"They were willing to part with them?"
"It wasn't a question of willingness. They knew that if Li Yun took their pages, they'd simply lose them. But if they handed the pages to me and those pages were stolen anyway, they could demand compensation from Ancestral City."
"That's the first reason!"
"Second, if Ancestral City can use this opportunity to lure Li Yun into the