The situation had deteriorated beyond all hope of control. Brother Li didn't even have the courage to report it to his superiors. He only wanted to quietly cover it up by his own efforts.
"Stop putting on a mysterious act. Aren't you cultivators from the Southern Continent? Why pretend to be immortals?"
As he spoke, he swept his hand, and the Four-Colored Seal shot deeper into the cave.
He secretly congratulated himself for having prepared a backup plan. And now that backup plan had come in handy.
His original plan had been to first investigate the Immortal Envoys' circumstances. Who could have known that they'd be so uncouth, rudely seizing food and wine as soon as they arrived, then talking without the slightest restraint through voice transmission and exposing a wealth of information? It had sent the ambition in Xu Yi's heart growing like wildfire.
What he hadn't expected was that they'd been planning to kill him and silence him from the very beginning. He couldn't escape this calamity even if he wanted to.
This backup plan had been devised precisely to deal with a possible conflict.
At the time, Ning Wuque had been thrown into Purple Domain Space. Corpse Xu Yi, Gold Corpse Old Cao, and Xiong Bei Ming had left with Ning Wuque at the same time.
They hadn't gone far, but headed to the ambush site Xu Yi had chosen in advance: this ravine cave.
The basic plan was to use Ning Wuque as bait, relying primarily on Purple Domain Space's devouring ability.
As it turned out, the plan worked beautifully. Attaching Xu Yi's corpse energy to Ning Wuque had been a stroke of genius. The instant Ning Wuque was captured, the corpse energy activated the light gate. The moment he was seized was the moment the