"Ma'am, has something gone wrong at the Sea-Calming Tower?"
Xu Taiping asked bluntly.
"The Sea-Calming Tower... has a... traitor... the Great General is trapped... the Western Sea Devil Master, the Shark Emperor, personally led an army of Shark Demons to besiege the Sea-Calming Tower."
"But... but the Sea-Calming Tower is protected by a Grand Formation personally laid by the Confucian Sage... they cannot breach it... nor is the Shark Emperor a match for the Great General... their true purpose in besieging the Sea-Calming Tower... is merely to buy time to break through Tianhai Pass..."
The woman answered with great difficulty.
"But even if they break through Tianhai Pass, as long as nothing happens to the Sea-Calming Tower, its forces can still come to our aid sooner or later and wipe out these Demonic Beasts, can't they?"
This time, it was A Zhu's turn to look bewildered.
The reason she had been so worried was that she had thought the Sea-Calming Tower had already fallen. Now that she had heard it was unharmed and merely under attack, she felt that even if the Demonic Beasts came, they only needed to abandon the town and flee for a while.
Tianhai Town encountered this sort of thing every few years, and its residents had long since grown accustomed to it.
"This time is different... this time... that traitor... not only wounded the Great General... but also told the Western Sea Devil Master... the location of the Great General's Life-bound Item."
The woman continued to answer with difficulty.
At this, Xu Taiping immediately frowned.
He recalled the scene in the Water Prison in Golden Toad Valley, where several members of the Red Armor Cavalry had preferred to throw themselves into the flames and die rather than reveal anything about the Great General's Life-bound Item.