Stay?
Li Ping glanced at the old man blocking his way, a cold gleam flashing through his eyes.
This mysterious force had placed the auction at the boundary between the coastal waters and the open sea, then captured a Scarlet Flood Dragon hatchling to auction off, luring over the enraged fourth-tier Scarlet Flood Dragon.
Clearly, they had used the auction as a pretext to lower the fourth-tier Scarlet Flood Dragon's guard and lay a death trap for him.
When he recalled the intelligence he had gathered-that auctions like this had already been held more than a dozen times-Li Ping could not help shuddering.
That meant this trap had been in the making for over a thousand years!
As for why they wanted to set a death trap for the fourth-tier Scarlet Flood Dragon?
Li Ping had a bold conjecture: as a transformed Demon Cultivator of the Eastern Sea's Flood Dragon Clan, the fourth-tier Scarlet Flood Dragon held an exalted position among the Eastern Sea's Demon Race. These people hoped to use his death to shatter the Truce Pact between humanity and the Eastern Sea's Flood Dragon Clan, reigniting war between humanity and the Eastern Sea's Demon Race and thereby shaking the existing order.
Who would resent the Immortal Alliance's order?
Not the Confucian Sect. They were the staunchest defenders of the existing system.
Nor would the Righteous Path. They sought enlightenment and immortality, and the Immortal Alliance's system of governance had little effect on them.
That made the identity of those orchestrating this behind the scenes all but obvious!
The Demonic Path!
Only the Demonic Path had the strength to deploy seven Nascent Souls!
And they had the motive, too. Demonic Path cultivators naturally gravitated toward chaos. Once war broke out between humanity and the Eastern Sea's Demon Race, the