Gutan Sect.
Under the utterly shocked gazes of Ren Ye, Lü Ji, and Daoist Chu, Brother Chun bowed and scraped as he accompanied Cao Yufei away. The thirteen captured Players from the Attacking Side, meanwhile, were escorted to the Divine Temple by Bell Society members, their eyes vacant and their expressions despairing.
"If I'm not mistaken, that middle-aged guy called Brother Chun is a traitor, right?" Lü Ji asked incredulously after recovering. "He switched sides halfway through?"
"We risked our lives and went through hell just to sneak three people in, while fourteen people back home got captured. Isn't this fucking... an old lady kicking the bucket-completely finished?" Daoist Chu transmitted darkly. "If that bastard Brother Chun is their inside man, they definitely know you escaped the Ancestral Land... Little Bad King, do we stay or get the hell out?"
Beside the Teleportation Array, Ren Ye stared blankly at Brother Chun, looking somewhat dazed. He seemed to be meditating, communicating with someone through Divine Sense.
"Have you gone fucking mute? Say something!" Daoist Chu urged.
Ren Ye slowly came back to himself and said urgently, "Leaving means giving up our last sliver of hope of turning this around. Wang Changfeng won't agree to another feint to get us inside. Don't panic. Wait a little longer... Come on, let's head back to our rooms with the others."
Lü Ji and Daoist Chu were both mentally resilient. Neither would contradict him or drag him down at a time like this, so they simply walked beside Ren Ye without betraying anything and headed toward the Disciple Hall.
Half an hour later.
Inside the Divine Temple's dungeon at Gutan Sect, Wu Dali, Ding Jun, and the other eleven Supernatural Ability Users knelt beside the God-Binding Pillars in the damp gloom, staring at the