Hunchback Old Ghost's foot, already stepping outward, abruptly froze. An invisible surge of Soul Consciousness sensed the commotion behind him, and the sight of that enormous puppet startled him.
"How could a puppet array of such a grade have been set up inside the sect!?"
"Seems like it was Elder Pu Yu..." a disciple in the crowd answered timidly.
At those words, Hunchback Old Ghost's face instantly turned ashen. Pu Yu could be said to be the person he trusted most, yet now he had joined forces with outsiders to deal with him?
He had always loathed such traitors who fed within only to gnaw from without. No longer caring about the situation outside, he roared furiously, "I'll deal with that bastard!"
Ying Luo added, "Leave the grand array outside to me. I'd like to see which blind-eyed faction dares pull something like this! Do they take our sect for vegetarians?"
As he stepped forward, Du Hengheng's soft, feminine voice came. "Are we still not opening the Sect Protecting Grand Formation?"
"No rush! Let me tear down the array outside first!"
Ying Luo casually stopped the elders who were echoing one another and preparing to activate the Sect Protecting Grand Formation. "The enemy attack is unclear, yet you want to activate the sect's grand formation in blind panic the moment it begins? If word gets out, won't we become a laughingstock?"
In truth, every activation of the sect's grand formation required countless resources to sustain it. If the attacking force was merely putting on a show, then the cost would clearly not be worth it.
In Ying Luo's view, even if they had to activate it, there would still be plenty of time after he went outside and assessed the situation.
After all, there were only around ten of those