Every Trick in the Book, Illusion Realm

The little guy had never shown up. At first, they had only thought it was a problem.

"Could it be that things had already changed from the very beginning?"

"What I mean is, everyone only knows this part of the situation right now. It's not as though we know nothing at all."

At the time, Jiang Zhen and He Qianniao had thought it was merely an isolated issue, caused by their own inadequate preparation.

"Of course we'll go over there and help. Why are you all agonizing over this yourselves? Are you expecting them to come help handle it instead? This is downright bizarre."

They reached the edge of the Illusion Realm. Even after exhausting every trick they had, they still could not open it.

"So where exactly did this go wrong? Things had clearly looked fine here at first. Could it be that we'd been doing something wrong from the start?"

"I don't know, but judging from what happened this time, it really is absurd."

"Then could it be that what we considered before was more suitable than all that came later? If it really won't work, then forget it. We definitely won't be able to come up with any other plan anyway."

"What you're saying makes sense, but I honestly don't really understand. After all, what each of them considered was already more useful than the later options."

"What do you mean by that? You think everyone should do things your way?"

The disciples who had come over had only been speaking casually at the time.

"But Senior Disciple Brother, we've already done our best to deal with it. If you're still going to say these things now, what exactly do you want them to do before you'll be satisfied?"

"Fine, then I have nothing more to say.