Li Hongzhao asked, "Senior Sister Dong, how long have the senior brothers and sisters been at Azure Lotus Sea?"
Dong Muyu said, "A month already. They should have been back by now."
Li Hongzhao asked, "How many demons are there at Azure Lotus Sea?"
"It's hard to say exactly how many demons Azure Lotus Sea has. There are four Great Demons, eighteen evil demons, and countless others. At least a hundred thousand, I'd say. The Elders led over a thousand Third Turn Venerables and above to wipe them out. That's enough."
"One thousand against a hundred thousand..." Li Hongzhao said in surprise. "A hundredfold difference. Can they really do it?"
"Heh heh, they're just a rabble." Dong Muyu curled her red lips and waved a hand dismissively. "Dealing with them will be as easy as turning over one's hand."
Li Hongzhao smiled. "If it were really that easy, why haven't they returned after so long?"
Dong Muyu frowned faintly. "They should have returned by now, by all rights."
Something stirred in Chu Zhiyuan's mind.
He vaguely sensed that something was amiss.
If things were truly as Dong Muyu said, then a thousand Heavenly Sword Sect disciples could match a hundred thousand evil demons, and the purge of Azure Lotus Sea should have ended long ago.
Yet they had not returned even now. Something must have changed.
As the newest disciple, he naturally had no standing to know what sort of change it was.
Li Hongzhao asked, "Senior Sister Dong, there won't be some unforeseen development, will there?"
"What development?"
"Could there be some plot or scheme?"
"No matter what plots or schemes they have, before such an overwhelming gap in strength, they can only be crushed." Dong Muyu waved her hand indifferently and smiled. "Let's just wait for the good