Xuan Wei's purpose in concealing things was simple: she wanted to use this method to draw Lu Wushuang's attention to another issue. That way, few would care about the little movements along the southeastern border. As the saying went, "The fastest way to solve a problem is to shift the contradiction elsewhere."
As expected, Lu Wushuang took the bait. Or rather, given his personality, it would have been hard for him not to, unless he had lived all these years for nothing. Yet this open scheme also brought Xuan Wei an unexpected delight. Aside from diverting Lu Wushuang's gaze, it had stirred the countless living beings into a frenzy with talk of war.
After her initial daze, Xuan Wei not only stopped the rumors from spreading further, but instead fanned the flames from behind the scenes. That was how those "true pieces of news" supposedly circulated by disciples within the three factions had come about. In the end, Xuan Wei's goal of muddying the waters had been achieved completely—indeed, with even better results than expected...
Now that the defensive lines and formations around the Immortal Vein were nearly half constructed, they only needed to hold on a little longer. The Ninth-grade Immortal Vein would then be firmly in their grasp, and the future foremost city of Qingming Hetong Heaven would belong to them, to be developed jointly by the three factions.
Yet no matter how carefully the three had guarded against everything, they had never expected their own useless teammate to take advantage of Old Dragon of the Three Pure Heavens concealing things. Believing he could act without being discovered, he had gone straight for your tiger's whiskers...
They could not possibly fail to understand the gravity of the matter. If the two sides went to war now, setting aside