The Tang Sect members who had scattered toward the various city gates had not gone far before they discovered a group of people outside the city looking at them with mocking faces. Only then did they understand that Tang San had not been lying to them.
"Split up and run."
"Got it."
After several members exchanged glances, they quickly burst out at full strength and fled in different directions. The disciples of the Evil Extermination Sect had been waiting for this moment for a long time, so naturally, they could not just watch them slip away. They swiftly began encircling and suppressing the Tang Sect members.
Tang San had ordered the members to leave first largely because he wanted them to draw the Evil Extermination Sect's attention and create conditions for his own escape. Right now, he had no desire to clash with the powerful figures inside the Evil Extermination Sect.
Tosk City's south gate was the closest gate leading to the Saliker Duchy, and Tang San expected the ambush waiting for him there to be the largest, so he very astutely chose to leave through Tosk City's north gate instead.
But things did not develop as he had imagined. The Tang Sect Disciples had indeed lured away some members of the Evil Extermination Sect, but there was still someone waiting for him here.
With a grave expression, Tang San swept his gaze over the woman before him, whose lips and eyeliner were both an eerie black, then probed, "Looks like your target was me from the very beginning."
"Looks like you're not that stupid. Why not obediently surrender? It'll save big sister here some effort."
The one waiting here for Tang San was precisely A Zhu. In truth, Ning Bei had not arranged powerful fighters at every city gate