The game and its pieces

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In a tall pavilion several hundred meters from King Wuhuan's residence, dozens of black-robed figures gathered, closely watching the battle inside the estate.

"My lord! Something isn't right. King Wuhuan may be powerful, but he shouldn't be a match for six elders, especially when they're using the Sixfold Demon-Baleful Strange Formation!"

After observing for a long while, Xian Xingyuan, silver hair peeking from his black robe, voiced his doubts to the person beside him.

"That isn't King Wuhuan! Only a Loose Immortal could withstand the six elders' combined assault. King Wuhuan has no army beside him now, so he cannot draw on its power. He couldn't possibly possess a Loose Immortal's strength on his own!"

Li Yin, the priest of withering and flourishing, answered gravely, his brows deeply furrowed with worry.

"That isn't King Wuhuan?! Impossible! Cave Master Wu might make a mistake, but how could Elder Zhi Hong have blundered so badly?!"

Shocked, Xian Xingyuan blurted out his disbelief.

Their tribe had deployed a third of its strength for this operation, all Innate Realm experts, to assassinate King Wuhuan and seize the Record of a Hundred Battles. If they had the wrong target, the price would be enormous. Their tribe had already suffered severe losses in recent years. Losing this group of experts as well would have dire consequences!

"King Wuhuan is definitely inside the estate. There is no question of that. We simply don't know how he switched places with someone and led Elders Mo Yuan, Eagle Vulture, and the others to the wrong man! Such is heaven's