"What was the situation on Accumulated Thunder Mountain before you left?" After hearing her out, Shen Luo turned to ask the woman in the red dress.
"The Demon Clan had already surrounded it with their fiends, but they hadn't attacked yet. I imagine they were waiting for word that my father had left the mountain," the woman in red said after a moment's thought.
"So you planned to lure the fox away from his mountain, trap the Fox King in the Golden Net Formation, then deal with the isolated Ten-Thousand-Year Fox King once the dust had settled on Accumulated Thunder Mountain. What a clever scheme," Shen Luo said with a laugh.
"Luckily, the Fox King didn't fall for it..." Wangqiu said with an awkward smile.
"Wangqiu, you fence-sitting rat! You're courting death!" Quan Xi roared at the sight.
"I was forced into it before, a bright pearl cast into darkness. Now that Senior Shen has rescued me, I'll draw a clear line between myself and you demons from this day forward. We shall never coexist!" Wangqiu declared with righteous indignation.
Shen Luo listened with amusement, deeply impressed by Wangqiu's shamelessness. With just a few words, he had successfully transformed himself from a perpetrator into a victim forced to submit. He truly... knew no shame.
"Enough nonsense. Who's leading this siege of Accumulated Thunder Mountain?" Shen Luo asked.
"A Cloud-Treading Beast who succumbed to demonic corruption. He's leading tens of thousands of demons. Besides this wild dog, he has a Purple Pheasant Spirit and an Earth Dragon Spirit under him," Wangqiu answered hastily.
"The Cloud-Treading Beast... what's his cultivation level, and what makes him formidable?" Shen Luo asked with a frown.
Wangqiu was about to speak when Quan Xi suddenly bellowed beside him, "Die!"
The next instant, a restriction mark appeared