While the headquarters of the Fire Dragon Palace was under attack, the Three Grand Elders and their party were descending toward a mountain. They had already reached the border of the Qingyang Kingdom, with the Liang Kingdom on the other side. Cultivators traveling from the Liang Kingdom to the Qingyang Kingdom almost invariably had to pass through these mountains.
"Grand Elder!" the Third Elder called, looking somewhat hesitant.
"What is it?" the Grand Elder replied blandly...
"I keep feeling there's a flaw in our plan. Do you think this will really work?" The Third Elder glanced at the Second Elder, who had turned to look at him, then gritted his teeth and spoke anyway.
"Do you think I haven't realized that?" Surprisingly, the Grand Elder nodded as he answered with a question. He paused, glanced at the Second Elder, and smiled. "I imagine you feel the same way, Second Elder?"
"That's right!" Unexpectedly, the Second Elder, who had always been the other two's bitter rival, spoke quite amiably. He paused and looked around at the others before continuing. "Although Dragon Martial Uncle proposed it, I still think something about it is amiss. Normally, there would certainly be no problem, but at a critical time like this, he's sending us Three Grand Elders and all of you elders to wipe out the Heavenly Dao Sect's branch cultivators, drawing out large numbers of their high-level cultivators so we can annihilate them together and repay them in their own coin. Meanwhile, Dragon Martial Uncle will track down that other group of cultivators alone and destroy them. If the plan succeeds, our two sides will be evenly matched again! But!" His expression grew grave. "What if something goes wrong? What if we lure out the Heavenly Dao Sect's cultivators but can't defeat them? Or