"What problem?"
"Yuan Yi's people aren't listening to him much anymore. Even when the Forbidden Ground gives orders, they refuse to obey."
Hearing that answer, Long Ji said in surprise, "You're still in contact with the Forbidden Ground?"
"Of course we are. The only ones with no connection to the Forbidden Ground are you few."
Long Ji and Bie Chen: "..."
So we're the only ones who genuinely hid away from the world, while you lot have been plotting in the shadows all along.
"When were they turned?"
"I don't know!"
Liu Yidao took a swig of fine wine and said, "No one knows when the people under us were turned."
"All I know is that when the second stage of the plan began, the purge targeting the Forbidden Ground began as well."
"Yuan Yi lost around sixty percent of his people. Forty percent of mine were purged."
"My second master suffered even worse losses. More than eighty percent of his Hidden Pieces were exposed and purged."
"And that number is still rising. When they will stop depends on what they want."
Watching Liu Yidao drink without pause, Long Ji thought for a moment before saying, "You're just going to endure something like this?"
"It's not a matter of enduring it or not. What I should be worrying about now is how to protect myself."
"Master gathered people like us together. First, he wanted us to do things for him. Second, he was protecting us."
"Without Master's protection, we would have been on the liquidation list long ago."
"Do you know why I've stayed here instead of leaving?"
"Because there's a purge going on outside. I'm afraid Xu Qianzhui and the others might get ruthless and kill me."
As soon as those words fell, Long Ji and Bie Chen both