No Need to Take It Seriously

"Something's not right. We came over here and made another circuit, but we've been here the whole time—we never left?"

At first, he had thought the issue was not that serious and that there was no need to take it to heart.

But now, he realized he had been wrong. The situation here was far more serious than before.

"How should I put it? Based on what everyone knew, I always thought it shouldn't have come to this. But after hearing you say that, I've realized something really does seem off!"

Qi Lei noticed the anomaly as well. The group began paying attention to their surroundings and quickened their pace forward.

Once they clearly saw what had happened here, they instinctively sprang back, trying to leave.

"See? What did I say? I told you something was seriously wrong. I just didn't think too much about it at the time."

But after arriving here, they discovered that the situation was far more severe than they had imagined.

"So the Demon Venerable had planned from the very beginning to lure us into the trap. That fellow truly is more sinister than we imagined. He had thought all this through beforehand and never intended to make any other response, right?"

They had always believed that, no matter how formidable the Demon Venerable was this time, he might not necessarily be able to escape their grasp.

But now, they realized that was completely wrong. If the Demon Venerable really was like this—

Then there was no way they could have remained entirely unaware. Something else must have been going on somewhere.

"You mean he had already had this idea before and was only deliberately acting that way?"

But if that was truly the case, then something was even more wrong now.

"Let's not worry