At the time, quite a few people were still hoping that Lei Chiyan would fail to complete his mission and be automatically dismissed. Their main focus remained on how to rescue Duan Mingyu.
Now, the focus had shifted completely. It had turned to how they could contend with Lei Chiyan.
Duan Haiping fixed his gaze on the cloaked man. "You've heard what everyone thinks. This time, Lei is going to Fubo Mountain to hunt evil spirits, but that's only part of it. I'm afraid his main target is you. If he doesn't die, how can you ever be safe? Old Demon Kongxu, if you don't give it everything you've got at a moment like this, when will you?"
By this point, the cloaked man's identity was clear. He was Xu Yi.
After receiving Xia Sibo's warning, he had hurried back at once. He had slipped into Xia Sibo's study and met with him in secret, quickly grasping the situation and identifying the key point: the source of all the trouble was Banshan Garden.
Facing the combined efforts of these people to hunt him down, he wasn't too worried. But the matter had to be dealt with.
He had analyzed it carefully. The real reason these people had come after him wasn't that he had damaged their interests. It was that he wasn't powerful enough—or, rather, that they still didn't understand how formidable he was.
In other words, if someone of Long Wenzhang's standing had disrupted the official appointment ceremony, these people's reaction would never have been so intense.
In short, before he had risen to a sufficiently high position, he had done something that didn't match his status, provoking the wrath of the crowd.
Now Xu Yi had rushed over not to sweep the matter under the rug, but to