"What the hell is going on?!"
"What happened? Wasn't it supposed to be ten days from now?"
"Ha, trying to pull this shit on me? Those Deepdark bastards are playing at military strategy now, huh?"
Ji Jue wasn't the only one caught off guard. Everyone involved in the plan was utterly confused, scrambling to react.
At that moment, on the agreed-upon barren island, everything outside was still in chaos. The retainers and attendants brought by the various factions were hurriedly assembling and preparing.
Streaks of blazing light descended one after another, bringing a barrage of angry questions.
Decayed Wind's Calamity Lord, Blood Eye's commander of ten thousand.
Even Du Luojia, who had been sitting there in silent meditation, and the Usurper, wreathed in black mist within a newly opened dark fissure.
As they looked at one another, a flicker of realization crossed their eyes amid their astonishment and anger.
Finally, when their gazes settled on that painted mask, they turned cold.
"Don't tell me this was your plan all along?" Du Luojia demanded.
From the very beginning, this fellow had never trusted anyone.
Even the date he had given them was false.
"An opportunity like this is rare. Time waits for no one."
Rotten Ape sighed helplessly. "It couldn't be helped. Something unexpected happened... I just received word that Charybdis, the Gluttonous World Turtle, has gone berserk and is now showing signs of moving again.
"Judging by its direction of travel, it may very well pass through the Seven Cities."
In an instant, the restless, furious atmosphere froze, and everyone's expression grew grave.
An annihilation class disaster beast possessed incalculable destructive power, even when gravely wounded. What was more, when it came to the damage a disaster beast could inflict, "gravely wounded" and "completely berserk" weren't DEBUFFS at all, but