"What?"
"Someone intercepted the execution squad. Are they trying to raid the execution ground?"
"They've actually started fighting! Who would dare be so bold?"
"Are they really going to postpone it? Good grief, they've already proclaimed to the world that the execution would take place at noon sharp. How can they go back on their word?"
Some were stunned, some surprised, and naturally, there were those who had expected it all along, or even gloated over it.
Having earned merit in Yan Zhou's capture, Fang Yue had been specially invited to witness the ceremony despite being only a Human Rank Spirit Tamer. When she heard the news, she could not help rising to her feet, visibly shocked. "Who would be so bold as to try to rescue him?"
She had never imagined that such an unexpected turn would occur.
Li Yan had also been invited and, like Fang Yue, sat behind a writing desk toward the rear. She looked thoughtful. "They really made their move?"
The worst-case scenario had indeed come to pass.
But she soon regained her composure.
If no one intervened and simply allowed Yan Zhou to be brought here and publicly executed according to the law, that would truly have given people cause to suspect that the towering powers of the Demon Alliance and the great Unorthodox Path sects had changed their nature, becoming gentle, kind, respectful, restrained, and yielding, no longer opposing the Righteous Path.
Although everyone had now joined the Cloud Summit Alliance and cooperated in good faith for their shared aspiration of immortality and imperishability, questions of precedence, authority, and interests still had to be settled.
Fang Qianyuan had certainly instigated this conflict, but some among them might well have harbored similar intentions.
They had probably been waiting a long time for this opportunity