Cooperation? Refusal!

The Black Scale Guard had been searching for Aurenli's whereabouts all along, but since the battle at Di'an, she had vanished from the face of the earth.

But if Aurenli had been spirited away by a sect Saint amid the chaos, then all the incongruities could be explained.

Xu Yuan had no idea whether Aurenli had reached a deeper cooperation with the sect faction, nor did he have the leisure to dwell on such matters now.

If the spatial ring had been exposed, then the sect faction must have prepared countermeasures.

It might even have been a trap they had deliberately laid, baiting him, Xu Yuan, into calling his uncle over so they could encircle and kill him.

That uncle of his was powerful, but the White Emperor was powerful too.

In Cangyuan, this man had been a world BOSS on par with his old man, to say nothing of the Heavenly Oversight Pavilion Master and that hunched old man holding the line.

No.

In that split second of lightning and flint, Xu Yuan suddenly realized that he seemed to have fallen into a mental blind spot—

If the other side stood united, then his uncle would indeed be walking into the jaws of death. But it seemed that not everyone present wanted his uncle dead here.

Especially the White Emperor, lord of the Ancient Abyss.

Xu Yuan did not know why the White Emperor had cooperated with the sects to attack the city, but from the White Emperor's standpoint, for the Ancient Abyss's millennia-long plan to invade Great Yan, he absolutely would not want the Prime Minister's Mansion's forces to be weakened too severely before Great Yan's civil war began.

If they were weakened too much and Xu Yinhe was forced to compromise, preventing this battle from erupting, then