Shi Hui had initially chosen to drag the Sea Demon King Xiangliu into this bubble Small Universe according to the Divination Group's prearranged plan, using a legend to counter a legend and preventing excessively powerful combat from destabilizing the Black Prison Battlefield.
But clearly—
While the demons attacked Black Prison and the wizards carried out their own plans, the Sea Demon King had plans of its own—and those plans were not entirely aligned with the demons under its command. This had completely exceeded the wizards' expectations.
It was like a Bull-headed Man standing in an arena, swinging its totem club at the great gray wolf before it while its eyes looked elsewhere, then turning its head and driving its sharp horns in another direction.
This choice was deeply divided.
Neither wizard.
Nor demon.
For instance, the Sea Demon King had not clashed head-on with Vice Principal Shi Hui as the wizards had predicted. Countless possibilities extrapolated by the Divination Group from their character models had concluded that if Xiangliu appeared on the Black Prison Battlefield and was intercepted by another legend, an unavoidable battle would certainly erupt between them.
Yet now, this nine-headed serpent would rather sacrifice one of its heads and part of its body, using a labyrinth domain to widen the distance between itself and Shi Hui, than face her directly. Something was very wrong.
For another, the Sea Demon King had paid a price far beyond the wizards' imagination for this battle—it had sacrificed one of its own heads.
The prisoners of the Black Prison World were important, and the Mystic Yellow Fruit was important as well. But to the selfish and cunning Sea Demon King, a legendary peak, neither those ant-like subordinates nor the Mystic Yellow Fruit, which did little for legends, was worth trading a