"What should we do? At this point, we can only wait for the Nascent Soul seniors from every side to return, then think of another way," Sun Wenzhu said with a slight furrow in his brow and a bitter expression.
The smile on Zong Lu's face did not diminish in the slightest. "Think of another way? Fellow Daoist Sun, are you not planning to reveal your trump card?"
Sun Wenzhu looked up at him in surprise, a sharp glint shifting beneath his eyes. "Trump card? What trump card? If I had another trump card, why would I have let them escape?"
"Fellow Daoist Sun, that is where you are mistaken! Perhaps you can deceive others, but not me. Wasn't your true intention to let them leave in this direction?"
Zong Lu narrowed his triangular eyes, his gaze burning bright. His tone was utterly certain, as though he had Sun Wenzhu completely figured out.
Sun Wenzhu's expression remained unchanged, but his heartbeat unconsciously quickened. "Oh? I did not know what true intention I had."
Zong Lu said with a smile, "At a time like this, why bother playing the fool, Fellow Daoist Sun? That Su Shi'er is cunning and full of schemes, especially skilled in the Formation Dao."
"Your earlier arrangement of a formation within a formation looked ingenious. But could it truly escape Su Shi'er's notice? Or perhaps, from the very beginning... you never intended to conceal it from him."
"Instead... it would have been best if he failed to see through it, but if he did, you would force him down this one and only path, correct?"
Sun Wenzhu's heart sank without end, yet not the slightest hint showed on his face. "And then? What would be my purpose in doing so?"
"Right now, I and the people of