Zhao Ziyue was played for a fool.
The Ten Directions Great Venerable was played for a fool.
Every single interested party keeping a watchful eye on the Rune Combat Assembly was played for a fool.
Yu Ci was also played for a fool.
Sitting inside the lizard carriage, Yu Ci had no choice but to accept this reality. The Rune Combat Assembly was the Three Families Market's biggest operation during this period. Regardless of whether characters involved in the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion were implicated or not, everyone followed conventional thinking to treat this assembly as a node. Naturally, they also treated the slightly later Suixin Dharma Assembly as a node, assuming without a doubt that some major event would happen after that phase.
Yet few people expected Zhai Que'er to suddenly launch her move when over a month still remained.
At this time, Zhao Ziyue had not achieved his objective at the Suixin Dharma Assembly, and the Ten Directions Great Venerable had just transformed his demonic body and was still in a period of weakness. Most crucially of all, everyone's mindsets were not tuned to the same beat. Facing this sudden situation, flustered and improper responses were likely inevitable.
Leaving Zhai Que'er's private courtyard, the group parted ways to leave. The decision to leave the city was so sudden that Yu Ci did not even have time to say goodbye to Lu Qing. Fortunately, through Shadow Ghost's relay, he contacted Tie Lan and had Tie Lan inform Lu Qing, though after thinking about it, he did not specify their destination.
The person sitting with Yu Ci right now was Tushan. This steady-looking middle-aged man would be his partner—or rather, his superior—for the coming period of time.
Yu Ci's background and origins dictated that he could not possibly enter the