Karma Master stared deeply at Lu Yin. "Fine. If you really do that, I, Saint Shang, guarantee that you'll stand as my equal in the next era."
Lu Yin gestured for him to proceed.
Karma Master left.
Did he mean to draw out Life but not Time? No. What was likely to come was Time joining forces with Life, or Death Lord joining forces with Life. Either way, two Masters were bound to show up.
Would Karma Master still be able to go to Time Ancient City then? With three Masters working together, he wouldn't think he could hold off two of them.
And once Death Lord arrived, Xiang Siyu would see that he was still alive.
None of the five Masters had died, so the Chaotic Era couldn't begin. What would she do then?
That was exactly what Lu Yin was aiming for.
He was staging a feint, an empty-city stratagem.
Using himself as bait, he would draw out Xiang Siyu and the other Masters. They would think he was setting a trap, when in reality he was just giving them a way to see one another. There was no trap. There was nothing at all. Only then could all five Masters learn that not one of them had died.
Only then could Xiang Siyu be made to act.
Otherwise, if she stayed hidden, who could find her?
Next up: Time.
He began marking the Time Framework points.
Time Ancient City had received word long ago, back when Lu Yin first marked the Luck Framework points.
But Time Master and the others had done nothing, because the points he marked belonged to the Luck Framework. It was obvious that Lu Yin was trying to draw out Luck Master, and they wanted to find him too.
So they let Lu