Xu Taiping murmured upon hearing this:
"Three people?"
Xiahou You speculated:
"All three should be comparable to Luo Hong in cultivation and fighting strength. Otherwise, there would be no need to station so many Blightbones nearby to guard them."
Xu Taiping nodded lightly.
"That's possible."
If he remembered correctly, the person who had called out to Supreme Venerable Xuanwei beside the Cinnabar Cave Well earlier had told him to hurry to the fifth layer of the Yaochi Sacred Land to complete the sacrifice.
Thus, there should not have been too many powerful cultivators stationed on this Six-Purity Jade Platform.
Just then, Qu Chao Ci's voice came from the Jade Slip again:
"Daoist Taiping, quite a few powerful Blightbones are also roaming the Dark Nether Water Mansion where we are."
"The power of the Deceiving the World and Stealing Fame divine intent is growing weaker and weaker. Our auras will likely be discovered soon."
"So I just thought it over. Rather than let them discover us, we might as well head to the entrance inside the Dark Nether Water Mansion that leads to the Void Essence Jade Platform before the Deceiving the World and Stealing Fame divine intent dissipates."
"Though with our fighting strength, we can't possibly force that entrance open."
"But once our auras are exposed and Luo Hong and the others discover us at the entrance, they'll certainly think we're preparing to sneak up to the Void Essence Jade Platform, and muster all their fighting forces to pursue us!"
Xiahou You nodded at this.
"If I were Luo Hong, even knowing we couldn't open the passage that quickly, I would certainly pursue us with everything I had."
Xu Taiping nodded.
There was indeed an eighty or ninety percent chance that Luo Hong would take the bait in Qu Chao