The moment the Huan King spoke, the atmosphere abruptly froze. Everyone exchanged glances and fell silent.
Their earlier argument had, in truth, also been a subconscious attempt to find a way out of danger and shake off their anxiety.
The chaos at the passage entrance alone made it clear that retreating through it was impossible. By now, not only the passage itself but probably its far end was packed with people!
"Sir?!" Li Yuan habitually turned to Xiao He and asked anxiously.
Xiao He fell silent for a moment, then frowned and counted on his fingers, answering with something else entirely. "How strange! Before setting out with the Huan King, I cast a divination. This journey should have brought a fright but no real danger. Why have things turned out like this? When we left Sishui, I also calculated my lord's Fate Realm. Starlight shone over everything, an auspicious configuration for travel. We should never have fallen into such a deathtrap!"
"I can perform divinations and calculations too! But such methods are not true foreknowledge, nor are they particularly reliable. They merely use timing, terrain, human circumstances, and other factors to produce countless deductions, then analyze those possibilities to identify the most and least likely outcomes before reaching a decision! What I want to know now is how we should deal with the actual situation before us, not hear talk of vague, illusory divinations!"
Jian Shang's expression darkened as he answered in a low, distinctly displeased voice.
The Cosmic Star Tribulation had now successfully condensed into twelve powerful stars, forming tribulations of their own. One of those twelve stars contained the Eternal Antiquity Scripture, a supreme canon embodying the profound principles of the School of Diplomacy and specializing in deduction and prediction. Together with the special ability granted by his