Zong Shen had accumulated far too many trump cards.
Even if he faced the joint siege of eight demigod powerhouses ranging from lower to mid tier head-on, he was confident he could still retreat unscathed.
But when he could maneuver around them, there was no need to fight them to the death.
Watching the prince he had sworn to protect die before his very eyes had created no small grudge.
Although Zong Shen was arrogant, he was not arrogant enough to take on eight demigods head-on.
If he had been caught unprepared, eight demigods would have been enough to beat him half to death.
But killing him was impossible.
Quite a few of Zong Shen's life-saving trump cards were mechanism-based.
Such as [Absolute Defense Privilege], [Infinite Mirror Reflection], and so on.
He even had an utterly unreasonable trump card like 24-Hour Global Rollback.
Following the guidance, Zong Shen swiftly left the Red Gold Palace.
By then, the entire inner city had already descended into chaos.
Using the Chaos Droplet, he rapidly broke through layer after layer of light barriers.
Once he had left the domain jointly sealed off by the demigods, he immediately activated [Phantom God Flicker] and headed for the main palace where Ayub usually stayed most often.
Although Prince Ayub had always planned to place the Fate Component in a trap site
to lure Zong Shen into walking straight into it, time had been an issue, and his trap site had not yet been completed.
The Fate Component had not had time to be transferred either, and was still stored in the secret treasury of the main palace.
Prince Ayub normally carried it on his person.
In his view, staying by his side was far safer than any treasury.
Unfortunately, the lunar crisis had erupted, and upon receiving