No ordinary person would ever have imagined that, the moment his poisoning was exposed, Fang Qianyuan had activated his contingency, signaling Miao Huan, who had been accompanying him all along, to take action!
Earlier, fearing that Dongfang Zhi would detect an approaching aura on the island, Fang Qianyuan had not brought Miao Huan along, leaving her in the port's Market District instead.
But now that Dongfang Zhi was absent, she had a chance to prove her worth, so he summoned her over.
Especially with Fang Qianyuan deliberately stirring things up outside, making the surrounding auras even more chaotic, discovering Miao Huan became all the more impossible.
After all, the Zuo Family brothers had once relied on this very Magic Treasure to infiltrate the Azure Cloud Sect's Headquarters!
Even a major sect like the Azure Cloud Sect had been unable to stop this treasure, much less the Ten Thousand Poisons Valley.
Still, knowing that deadly poison might be hidden here, Fang Qianyuan would not lightly send Miao Huan into danger.
Her greater purpose was to remain concealed and coordinate with his next move.
"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"
"Enemies are attacking!"
By the time Fang Qianyuan appeared above the pavilion, chaos had already erupted all around.
Someone sounded the alarm bell. Amid its clanging, patrolling guards and experts on duty poured in from every direction.
The vast majority of them were at Human Rank.
A small faction had limited reserves and could not produce a dozen or more Earth Rank Experts at once to surround him. Yet their composed reactions, urgent without descending into disorder, clearly showed how well trained they were.
Most had been forcibly pushed to the Ninth Transformation or higher through lavish expenditure of resources. They also seemed to have carefully rehearsed battle formations, immediately assembling in groups of