"Fellow Daoist Hengming, Ji can personally guarantee..." Ji Mo patted his chest and was about to speak.
"Shh~" Hengming hurriedly motioned for silence. "This poor Daoist said Fellow Daoist Ji was frank and outspoken, and it seems I was not wrong! How could Fellow Daoist casually make such a guarantee? Leaving aside everything else, how did Qin Jian infiltrate Xuntian City and assassinate Fellow Daoist Tu Hong? Without an insider of some sort, could he have gotten in?"
"This..." Ji Mo was somewhat tongue-tied. He truly did not know as much about Tu Hong's affair as Jin Gang and the others.
"And Fellow Daoist Ji, do not say you do not know about Xuntian Tea House in Xuntian City. Must this poor Daoist spell out what goes on inside?" A glint of severity flashed through Hengming's eyes. "Since someone is selling battle merits, would no one sell news from our Council Hall?"
"This..." Ji Mo was rendered utterly speechless.
"Hehe, Fellow Daoist Ji, such matters are neither here nor there and do not affect the overall situation!" Hengming said with another smile. "Our duty now is to attack and kill sword cultivators—to slaughter as many of them as possible! In the battle at Sword Tomb, we shall accomplish everything in a single stroke. Even if some things have been concealed, would the City Lord... care?"
"Sigh..." Ji Mo sighed, lowered his head slightly, and asked no further questions.
Seeing this, Hengming smiled faintly. He glanced around at the crowd, waited a moment, then declared loudly, "Fellow Daoists, once the sword cultivators step into Sword Tomb, they will have entered our ambush. We need not rush to pursue them. We need only wait until they enter the great formation, then activate it from all four directions and kill them!"
"Th-this is