"Scale-Armored People?"
Upon hearing the term, Insight Eye and Thick Armor exchanged a glance, both realizing that the situation had changed. Then Insight Eye led the others away from the village town; surrounded by so many people, it was inconvenient to act on many matters.
They moved swiftly. After a few breaths, they reached a grove outside the town. Insight Eye took control of the communication, while the person in thick armor beside him said in a low voice, "Now that the Earth-Vein Communication Method with the Eastern Sea has returned to normal, perhaps we can rule out the possibility that we are still trapped in an illusion, at least to some extent."
Insight Eye first nodded, then began contacting the Eastern Sea.
This time, the two of them had brought everyone here for negotiations, while Diao Yuan, the Great Mohist, and others remained behind in Sky City of the Eastern Sea, each with their duties clearly assigned. The one speaking across the distance now was Diao Yuan.
"How did those Scale-Armored People appear? How did they surround you? And what is the matter with Donghua's Daoist Sect Coalition?"
As the question was transmitted, a response came shortly afterward—
"We have no idea where these Scale-Armored People came from. At the time, we were resisting a charge by the Daoist Sect Coalition when they suddenly burst out of the water, descended from the sky, and gathered from all eight directions. They used the Yin-Yang Alternation Method, divine abilities that fused icy cold with blazing fire, to form an encirclement. In every gesture, they carried the momentum of wanting to slaughter all things beneath heaven! Whether they were our Heaven Will people or Donghua cultivators, they spared no one!"
"Indiscriminate attacks?" Insight Eye hesitated for a moment before voicing the doubt