Fang Qianyuan quickly regained his composure, his expression gradually fading. "When did you discover it?"
Dongfang Zhi said, "Fang Qianyuan, did you truly think your infiltration plan was some brilliant stratagem? I am a Heaven Tier Spirit Tamer, after all. Even if I came from humble roots and my foundations fall far short of sect cultivators', I am not so easily fooled."
Fang Qianyuan said, "I admit you have a point. But this infiltration and disguise also had the support of the Eastern Sea's Righteous Path. I had no shortage of credentials to rely upon. Even if you used Heaven Tier methods to investigate everywhere, you would only have found that everything was unquestionably genuine. How could you have discovered me?"
"Don't tell me you knew who I was merely through the intuition of a Heaven-Tier Powerhouse. There must be something more to this."
Dongfang Zhi smiled calmly. "You need not know that. At this point, you should first consider how you are going to escape!"
Fang Qianyuan glanced around, then suddenly smiled. "Are these people what you are relying on? You have merely trapped me, not realizing that this suits my purposes perfectly. If I wipe out your entire elite force here, and even slay you, the Valley Master, on the spot, wouldn't that save me a great deal of effort?"
The people beside Dongfang Zhi sucked in sharp breaths at his words, losing even the urge to curse him in anger.
Just how tremendous did his confidence have to be for him to say such a thing while trapped, when he could not even be certain of his own safety?
The man before him was no nameless nobody, but the renowned Valley Master of Ten Thousand Poisons Valley, the Poison King of the Eastern Sea, the Heaven-Tier Powerhouse