They had come...
Or rather, they had finally come.
In the darkness, Li Changshou let out a sigh of relief.
It was not thieves stealing that one feared, but thieves keeping their eyes on you;
with these enemies refusing to show themselves, even Li Changshou had felt a measure of pressure.
Ever since Elder Wan Linjun had bestowed that ring upon him half a year ago, Li Changshou had begun the third phase of his war preparations.
Now, it was time to inspect the results...
If the other side wanted to launch a sneak attack, they would surely rapidly approach Du Xian Sect from aboveground or underground, then suddenly rise up and strike.
That gave Li Changshou plenty of room to maneuver.
This direction in which they had appeared, this route...
He had guessed correctly after all!
Though, for the sake of caution, Li Changshou had also stationed Earth-character Paper Daoists along the other five possible routes.
And the enemy was quite cooperative too—the route they had chosen for their sneak attack was precisely one of the three routes where he had concentrated his main arrangements.
The only thing Li Changshou found unsatisfactory was that the timing of their attack differed from his prediction by two or three months...
He had even once speculated that, after Elder Wan Linjun and he had jointly given the other side a taste of their own medicine, the mastermind behind the scenes might have abandoned their plan to destroy Du Xian Sect...
Yet...
Though the enemy was late, they had still arrived.
At this moment, the seven Heaven-character Paper Daoists remained "holding their troops in reserve," hidden beyond the mountain gate and quietly lying in wait.
Their role was still to encircle the enemy from behind once the outbreak of war began;
that tactical