"Playing dumb?"
"Or did he really not sense the Southern Sea Dragon Palace envoy's presence?"
The moment those two possibilities surfaced in her mind, Liu Yiyi ruled out the second.
The Southern Sea Dragon Palace envoy had already come to the Tianyan Sect Mountain Gate. Given the terrifying strength Sect Master Luo had shown before, there was no way he had failed to sense any trace of the envoy's presence.
But saying Sect Master Luo was playing dumb made no sense either.
With a Southern Sea Dragon Palace envoy at their door, pretending ignorance to muddle through was plainly unrealistic.
Besides, the Tianyan Sect was one of the Nine Sons of the Endless Sea.
Surely, with the Southern Sea Dragon Palace at its doorstep, the Tianyan Sect would not raise the Light Barrier of its Defensive Array and choose to hide inside like a turtle drawing its head into its shell...
"Uh..."
Liu Yiyi's thoughts raced. As something suddenly occurred to her, her expression grew complicated.
As she saw it, when the Southern Sea Dragon Palace Seventh Prince's Manor had mobilized in full force to besiege the Tianyan Sect Mountain Gate last time, the Tianyan Sect cultivators had huddled inside, relying on the Defensive Array's Light Barrier for protection.
Only after she and the two Dao Seeds, Pan Zhengxiong and Pan Linfeng, had arrived to help did the Tianyan Sect cultivators dare emerge from the Light Barrier and fight the Southern Sea Dragon Palace to the death.
Could Sect Master Luo be planning to do the same thing this time—hole up in the sect and drag things out as long as possible while waiting for that unknown expert to come to their aid?
Liu Yiyi was not the only one left speechless by Luo Yi's earlier words.
Pan Zhengxiong, the