Public Opinion Gains Momentum
About an hour later, Jiang Yue stood at the highest point in the valley, gazing at the gruesome battlefield below. He felt a deep sense of satisfaction.
Over the past hour, they had used the terrain to their advantage and sprung several traps, luring in all four of the first Treasure Tree Clan experts to arrive and successfully killing them.
It was no wonder the four experts had fallen for it. The Replication Skill had let Jiang Yue impersonate Elder Yin Qiao, while Grand Scholar Tong Ye and Scholar Yun Geng had acted as moles to mislead them. The four Treasure Tree Clan experts had been caught completely off guard.
Even when the fake Elder Yin Qiao—Jiang Yue in disguise—ambushed them, they still couldn't understand why the Treasure Tree Clan's ancestor would attack them. Hadn't they rushed to help because the clan's oldest and most senior elder had called for help?
If some other Treasure Tree Clan expert had sent out a distress call, these high-ranking experts might not have bothered to come, or at least wouldn't have hurried over with such urgency.
In the end, hadn't they come for the sake of you, the Treasure Tree Clan's ancestor? And now you old bastard had ambushed them? What kind of game was this? They had died without ever figuring out why. They had never imagined that the Treasure Tree Clan's ancestor they saw was no longer the real one.
Grand Scholar Tong Ye and Scholar Yun Geng were completely numb by now. Ever since they had decided to lie low, they had known that their fate was no longer in their own hands.
Now they were simply going farther and farther down that road.
Whatever happened, they had no choice left. And after watching so many