Tiger Roar Shook the Heavens, Like an Earth Dragon Turning Over

Second Dog stared blankly ahead.

Firelight, figures, blades, heavy crossbows.

No...

What the hell was going on?

According to Fox Third Lady's plan, shouldn't they have silently infiltrated the eye of the Demon Suppression Grand Array by now, joined forces to destroy it, then sent a signal to draw the True Lord's army into the Inner Passes and slaughter this mighty fortress clean?

How had things suddenly turned out like this?

How could this woman, and the group behind her, be here?

It was as though... they had known all along that they would emerge from here.

At that moment, the effeminate young man stared fixedly at the girl seated in the chair, the color slowly draining from his face.

He instantly understood.

From those two utterly humiliating slaps at the city gate, to the clean severing of a hand later on, to this prison that appeared impregnable yet was actually completely unguarded...

This woman!

She had known from the very beginning that they were demons!

"We... were played."

"What?"

Second Dog had yet to react.

"She knew! She knew from the very beginning that we were demons!"

The effeminate man whipped around. "She deliberately let us in!"

The moment those words fell, the dozen or so demons behind him were all horrified.

Deliberately let them in?

What did that mean?

Catching turtles in a jar?

But...

But what gave her the right?

What made her think that once they entered the city, she had the ability to wipe out all dozen-plus of them?

They had to know that most of their dozen-plus demons had long stepped into the Bone-Chiming Realm, while the rest were at Perfected String-Hearing.

Though within Jade Gate Pass, affected by the Demon Suppression Grand Array, they could not exert even half their strength.

Yet if