Secret Arrangements

Western Territory!

Lian Buyu listened to several cultivators' reports with a dark expression. Strange things had been happening one after another over the past two days.

First, Chang Geng and the others had repeatedly provoked them. Then there was the Southern Border, which had stayed far too quiet.

This strange contrast between movement and stillness was enough to give anyone pause.

"We still haven't detected any activity from the Southern Border."

The cultivators' answers were all more or less the same. That was what gave Lian Buyu the biggest headache.

No movement was the biggest movement of all!

That was an old trick of Yanluo Hall's. They'd used it countless times, and had even toyed with the Heavenly Dao Sect until it was running in circles.

Could the other side be copying their playbook and making a fool of him?

Before long, Chang Geng once again crossed over from the Southern Border, bringing Maitreya and the other three with him. Their immense auras surged into view once more.

A provocation!

Another provocation!

"Are all the people of the Heavenly Dao Sect dead? Why send a bunch of elders out to fight us?"

Lian Buyu had gone from brimming with fighting spirit at first, to gradually losing heart, and now to sheer impatience.

In just two days, they'd fought nearly four times!

If they truly wanted a proper fight, Lian Buyu was willing to see it through to the end.

But Chang Geng and the others had started playing dirty. Every time things got serious, they turned and left, leaving Lian Buyu caught in the middle, unable to fight or let it go. It was maddening.

After it happened so many times, Lian Buyu finally began to grow wary.

Why did this seem so much like the way they'd kept the