The Great Huan Faction, along with the many Descended Immortal Gods, Loose Immortal experts, and others, watched an entire night of "face-changing theater" in silence, their feelings peculiar. Gradually, they guessed the Shu King Liu Bei's intentions and the course of events!
The situation was obvious. Thanks to the Wei Emperor Cao Cao's repeated, deliberate reminders, the Shu King Liu Bei had failed to escape. Liu Bei had then guessed Cao Cao's scheme and naturally refused to let him have an easy time or allow the Great Wei State to get its wish. Revenge and dragging someone down with him were very much on his mind. Of course, he was also doing everything he could to secure an advantage for the Shu State. At the very least, he had to even out the gains and losses of this battle so that the Great Huan Celestial Dynasty would not make the Shu State its primary target!
In truth, the Wei and Shu States had been scheming against each other from the very beginning. Killing the Wu State's Sun Clan and Great Huan's representatives had only been a secondary objective. Their chief aim had been to plot against each other and buy time for their own side. Seizing the opportunity to eliminate the Great Huan Celestial Lord Xiao Ying in one stroke or weaken the Great Huan Celestial Dynasty had been their second objective!
Unfortunately, events had gone against their wishes. They had underestimated the Great Huan Celestial Lord Xiao Ying. They had never expected the Great Huan Celestial Dynasty to deploy its army around Jianye Royal City without anyone noticing, nor had they imagined that Xiao Ying had seen through everything long ago and dug a pit, waiting for them to jump in. Otherwise, Jianye Royal City lay a considerable distance