Jiang Yunchuan had been watching Gu Yuanqing all along. When he caught that faint smile, his brow creased almost imperceptibly.
He kept feeling that there was something strange he had failed to notice.
Everything about this man's behavior defied reason.
Faced with the arrival of so many Heavenly Gods from the Divine Court and the Guixu Alliance, he seemed not only unconcerned by the gravity of the situation, but positively glad to see it.
His heart tightened slightly. Could there be a trap here?
Or was this a scheme to lure the tiger away from its mountain?
The Divine Court and the Guixu Alliance were enemies. Even with the God King Venerable gone, the Divine Court still surpassed the Guixu Alliance in strength.
Yet there were many vital locations in the Fa Yuan Realm to defend. The Tianfang Domain had originally been an insignificant minor domain, but Gu Yuanqing's affair had drawn three of the Divine Court's Heavenly Gods here. That meant defenses elsewhere would be somewhat depleted. At the very least, this affair had tied down almost all of the Divine Court's top-level mobile forces.
It was not as though the Divine Court had never considered this possibility. In their struggles, the Guixu Alliance and the Divine Court employed every means imaginable. Aside from direct combat, luring the tiger from its mountain, surrounding a position to strike its reinforcements, sacrificing the plum for the peach, and feinting east to strike west were all routine tactics.
But this was the Way of Creation. Even the Primordial Creation Heaven Wheel had awakened because his true body was undergoing its tribulation. Surely that could not be faked.
Nor did they believe that, if he truly belonged to the Guixu Alliance, they would be willing to risk a Creation True God.
That was