"Join forces with Xiao Moji!"
"Lead sixty villagers in a surprise attack on the Mountain Bandits' camp!"
"Buy time for Three Paths Village to lay traps, and pit a single village against the entire Green Sand Gang..."
In a side room of Fengdu Prefecture in the Yellow Springs Ruins, Ping'an stared at the phantom image before him, murmuring in a slightly trembling voice.
Hearing this, Ninth Madam knitted her brows tightly.
"You think your eldest brother is taking a terrible risk too, don't you?"
To her surprise, Ping'an answered with excitement written all over his face.
"No! I only think it's a shame! A shame I couldn't be there to fight shoulder to shoulder with Eldest Brother!"
Ninth Madam pressed a hand to her forehead and shook her head.
"Asking you that was pointless."
Ghost King Qin Ming suddenly said with a grave expression:
"Judging by the current situation, if the intelligence Three Paths Village obtained is accurate, the Green Sand Gang's Mountain Bandits will massacre the village a full day earlier than before."
"That also means the information we currently have will be of no use from here on. Xu Taiping and the others can only adapt as things unfold."
Ninth Madam sighed.
"They already had the water lily. All they needed to do was survive the day of the massacre and they could return, but now everything is uncertain."
As she spoke, she turned toward Heavenly Lord Xuanbei and Daoist Fengzhu and asked with a smile:
"What are your thoughts at this moment?"
That water lily concerned whether the two could regain their places among the half-immortals. Its importance went without saying.
Yet to Ninth Madam's surprise, Heavenly Lord Xuanbei was utterly composed.
He stared intently at the image before him and said calmly:
"With such resolve in