Chapter 948 - 355: Wei Banmeng’s Tough Stance, Six Great Powers Flip the Table! (3)

He intensified his tone, pinpointing the core issue.

"As agreed initially, we are responsible for perimeter blockade and interception, while Captain Fang is tasked with leading the final attack. We have held the line for half a month now, suffering heavy casualties, and the Celestial Punishment Association has been significantly drained and constrained. At this moment, it’s the best time to launch a full-scale attack, Captain Fang... what exactly is he waiting for?"

The question was reasonable and directly addressed the key point.

All eyes once again focused on Wei Banmeng.

Wei Banmeng set down her teacup, the bottom making a crisp clinking sound on the table.

She lifted her gaze, meeting the representative of Thousand Machines Tower and all the eyes behind him filled with questioning and anger with a calm look.

Her red lips parted slightly, her voice still as cold as icy springs:

"He will make his move when it’s time."

Boom...

This statement was like a spark thrown into a pot of oil.

It completely detonated the extreme fury suppressed within the private room.

"Bastard!"

"Too much bullying!"

"Arrogant!"

"They’re treating us like fools!"

Kuang Huo, Blood Rose’s woman, the robed guests from the Tingchao Pavilion, and others could no longer hold back, all slamming the table and rising to their feet.

Even the representative of Thousand Machines Tower, who had tried to maintain a facade of calm, had his face turn utterly gloomy, his gaze icy cold.

Wei Banmeng’s light remark was not an answer, but a naked contempt and perfunctory evasion.

This was not communication at all.

This was using power to forcefully suppress their dissatisfaction.

Old Ghost’s heart sank instantly to the bottom, his whole body felt cold.

It’s over.

Now they’ve completely torn faces.

"Good! Good! Good!"

The robed guest from Tingchao Pavilion was so enraged, he laughed and uttered three ’good’s in a row.

He surveyed Wei Banmeng and the five others, then scanned the pale-faced Old Ghost, a sinister smirk tugging at the corners of his mouth.

"Since the Cyan Dragon Gang is so confident, so vast in divine power, that they don’t even take Celestial Punishment into account, it seems that wiping out Celestial Punishment would be a mere flick of the fingers."

He suddenly flicked his sleeve, producing a crisp snap.

"In that case, it seems we aren’t needed as bothersome allies!"

"Farewell!"

With his last word, he turned to leave swiftly.

"Indeed! I’m not serving this anymore!"

"Whoever wants to deal with this mess can deal with it!"

Kuang Huo, Blood Rose’s woman, members of the Faceless Brotherhood, monks from Xuankong Temple, even the representative from Thousand Machines Tower, all with darkened faces, rose one after another, preparing to follow suit and leave.

Cooperation? Trust?

In the face of such naked disdain and manipulation from the other party, it had become an enormous joke.

Old Ghost closed his eyes in despair.

Yet...

Just as the six were about to step out of the private room.

A voice calm to the point of having no ripples.

Resounded without warning within the private room.

Like a whisper in everyone’s ear, clearly overshadowing all rebukes and footsteps.

"Good timing, since you don’t want to help, I have a matter to discuss with you all."

The source of the voice was right by the large, round bar table.

The six leaders abruptly stopped, whipping their heads around.

Their pupils instantly contracted to the extreme.

At the place near the main seat by the table.

At some unknown time, an additional person appeared.

He wore a plain grey hooded battle suit, his figure not particularly robust, even somewhat slender.

At this moment, he sat there as if he was alone.

Holding a pair of chopsticks, he leisurely picked a piece of enticingly colored braised rib from the plate before him and put it into his mouth.

His actions were so natural as if he had been eating there all along.

His head slightly lowered, he chewed slowly and deliberately.

The overly youthful profile was cold and hard, his eyes covered with starlight lowered, focusing on the food before him.

No imposing aura emanated from him.

Serene as a mere commoner mistakenly entering this place.

But it was this serenity, the bizarre manner in which he appeared under the eyeline of these seven top-tier Tier Three magnates, unnoticed and undetected, that in the instant they saw his face.

Made everyone in the private room feel a chill rush from the soles of their feet to the Celestial Spirit at the top of their heads.

The form of the Thunder Pattern Mask had vanished.

But that face...

Who else could it be apart from that name?!

"Fang... Captain Fang?!"

The woman from Blood Rose was the first to react, exclaiming in shock.

Her voice was filled with incredulous amazement.

A seductive face instantly broke into a dazzling smile with enough charm to captivate souls, attempting to cover up her earlier embarrassment and rage.

Fang Qingyu did not lift his head, nor did he look at her.

He chewed on the rib in his mouth, gently spitting a small bone onto the bone plate.

Only then did he set down the chopsticks, pick up the snow-white napkin beside him, and leisurely wiped his lips.

After doing all this, he slightly raised his eyes, the depths of his eyes were as vast as the cosmic star river, serenely scanning over the six magnates frozen at the doorway with various expressions.

He uttered just two short words:

"Sit down."

Buzz——

Just at the moment Fang Qingyu’s words fell.

The entire private room seemed to faintly tremble.

The six magnates horrifiedly discovered that the ground on which they stood had bizarrely transformed into a virtual image of a silvery river flowing with sparkling starlight.

An irresistible force, vast as the starry sea, gently yet immensely arose out of nothing.

Like an invisible giant hand, precisely enveloping each one of them.

The next moment!

Light and shadow swirled, vision instantaneously blurred then cleared.

The six only felt their bodies lighten then sink.

By the time they recovered their senses.

They were horrified to find themselves sitting back in the very chairs they had risen from earlier!

In exactly the same positions.

As if they had never stood up, never walked towards the door.

Like time flowing backward.

"Hiss——!"

The sound of gasping in shock echoed throughout the deathly silent private room.