The arrival of Qi Shouming and the others filled the Emei Sect disciples with delight and left Ancestor Haha somewhat shocked.
As Ancestor Haha saw it, the Emei Sect had first sent Elder Yue Yun leading a host of disciples to spearhead the attack, then followed up with six elders, including all Three Immortals of the Eastern Sea. They clearly meant to kill him!
He therefore drove the Twelve Capitals Divine Fiends furiously, creating more enormous flame dragons that wheeled through the sky and shattered the Grand Purity Divine Light Qi Shouming had sent to draw the disciples out. Then he reversed yin and yang, shifted the Five Elements, and twisted space, carrying the Emei disciples farther and farther from Qi Shouming and his companions.
"I hear Sect Leader Qi has always been gentle and refined, yet today you have come here as an uninvited guest. You truly carry on the tradition of Longbrow Ren Shou!"
Ancestor Haha dragged the Emei disciples toward the rear of Savage Mountain, intending to hold them hostage, while speaking to Qi Shouming and the others across the distance to probe their strength and intentions.
Master Baiyun, the elder on duty, had sensed something wrong when Shi Feiyang led the Emei disciples off to attack Hundred Barbarians Mountain. Yue Yun should not have been so impulsive.
At first, however, she had not thought much of it, merely feeling unsettled. She repeatedly performed divinations. Initially, the Hexagrams were a tangled mess, but they gradually became clear, revealing that after defeating Lie Baduo, the disciples would go somewhere else and fall into a perilous situation—a "tiger trapped in a deep pit." Her unease only grew.
After turning it over in her mind, she felt something was very wrong. In the end, she called Qi Shouming out of