The truth was exactly as that elder had just said...
Changing the rules had been permitted by Ling Zhe. Because they suspected that someone from the Ten Thousand Demon Hall had infiltrated them, they were to join forces to capture the Shadow Moon Demon Rat first, then fight for the credit. Ling Zhe had not said that they were not to notify the Feather Alliance Hall.
He had told Ling Ou to spread the notification everywhere, but Ling Ou had deliberately withheld it from the Feather Alliance Hall.
The reason was simple...
When Sikong Jing obtained the Shadow Moon Demon Rat and had Zhan You crush the signal pearl, Ou Tu's life lamp had just shattered. Ling Ou's good mood vanished again, and she once more bore a grudge against the Feather Alliance Hall for killing four people from her Spirit Gull Lineage.
That was why the Feather Alliance Hall's upper ranks had remained completely in the dark, only learning the reason now.
At this moment, the higher-ups stared fixedly at all the dim, lightless life lamps...
"It can't be held. There's simply no way to hold it."
It was impossible to hold on to the Shadow Moon Demon Rat amid the Spirit Race and the various clans and halls.
"As long as they don't die." All Yu Diejin wanted now was for Sikong Jing and Yu Tang to survive.
However, the Su Family Head immediately struck at him. "How could avoiding death be so easy? We never should have fought for the Shadow Moon Demon Rat. That was an utterly overestimating ourselves, utterly unwise act."
Though the Su Family Head's words were harsh, most of the elders thought the same. How could they possibly have survived so easily?
They had already looked like they were on the verge of