"Fellow Daoist Bai, Senior Mysterious Thunder True Lord, what brings you here?"
Although Gongyang Zhi was surprised, he had expected this; it had merely come a little sooner.
The corners of his mouth lifted slightly. To the two outside the grand formation, it looked more like mockery.
"Why didn't you send word ahead of time so our Dark Puppet Sect could prepare a welcome?"
Bai Sha's face darkened. "Gongyang Zhi, what is going on with this grand formation?
"How could your Dark Puppet Sect possibly set up a fourth-tier formation?"
There was not a single Fourth-Rank Formation Master in all of Cangshan Prefecture.
Both the Celestial River Sword Sect and the Cangshan Sect had invited Fourth-Rank Formation Masters from outside the Northwest to establish theirs.
Now that all pretense had been torn away, Bai Sha no longer bothered with courtesy.
"What do you think, Fellow Daoist Bai?"
"The Xu Household!"
That was the only possibility Bai Sha could think of. After all, the Xu Household had close ties to the Mysterious Moon Sect.
Having the Mysterious Moon Ancestor set it up would certainly have been a tale from the Arabian Nights.
But that did not stop them from making connections with other Fourth-Rank Formation Masters.
"They really are generous. A connection with a Fourth-Rank Formation Master is priceless, yet they spent it on your Dark Puppet Sect."
No wonder the Dark Puppet Sect dared to openly switch sides.
Given such an opportunity, any peak Golden Core faction would choose the Xu Household.
Unless the Celestial River Sword Sect could offer the same price, or even better terms.
The Mysterious Thunder True Lord fixed his eyes on Gongyang Zhi, his voice betraying neither joy nor anger. "Very good."
He turned and departed in a streak of light.
Bai Sha paused briefly,