Chapter 184 - 181: Face
Su Wen left in a hurry, without giving any specific instructions.
Or rather...
It seemed he intentionally wanted Gu Jinlai to fall into the battlefield of Star State, lest he impulsively decided to eradicate him, a Divinity Transformation Cultivator with whom he had both grudges and favors, by deliberately leaving no message behind.
The intelligence department was leaderless, greatly affecting its operations.
So much so that when Gu Jinlai and his Demon God Guards had already crossed thousands of miles to join the battle at Star Curtain City, the State Lord Mansion had still not received the news of the disastrous defeat at Dragon Sparrow Manor, where two Primordial Spirit Monarchs and four Divinity Transformation Cultivators died in battle.
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Star Curtain City.
When an army moves, it often moves in a big way.
To ensure the success of the decapitation strike without giving early warning, Nie Shisan and others disappeared into thin air, forcing the State Lord Mansion, led by Zhang Wuliang, Wen Rulong, and Xie Shanhe — three Divinity Transformation Great Cultivators, commanding twenty-four Refining God Immortals, plus a hundred Hugging Pill Masters and over two hundred Gang Condensation, a total of more than four hundred people, to launch a surprise attack on Star Curtain City.
Despite Nie Shisan’s thorough control over the surroundings of Star Curtain City, deploying many dark agents, it was already too late when they realized that over four hundred experts from the State Lord Mansion were coming to kill them.