Jin Xinyue found it hard to believe. "Is that so?"
"Of course!"
After finishing the preliminary analysis of the information, Li Yao was finally able to focus on the communication with his disciple. "Don't you feel that, after sneaking into Heavenly Path City, we have received a lot of important intelligence despite the failure of our persuasion plan. Isn't it a fruitful trip?"
"I'm not smart enough," Jin Xinyue said. "I only vaguely felt that you seemed to have been overwhelmed by my father in terms of aura. It was like — it was like —"
"It was like being hung up and beaten up by your father, right?" Li Yao asked.
"I dare not!" Jin Xinyue exclaimed.
Li Yao waved his arms in excitement and snapped his fingers. "It's only right that you were hung up and beaten up by your father!
"After we introduced ourselves, your father must've studied my background carefully. But all the files about me in the Blood Demon Sector ended on Boneyard ten years ago!
"At that time, I was just a Building Foundation Stage Cultivator in my twenties. I was too young, naïve, and simple.
"It means that your father did not know what I look like right now, nor did he know how much I've changed in the past ten years!
"What I needed to do was to reinforce and solidify his impression with all the naïve theories, bragging fantasies, and armchair plans so that he would think that I was just an idiot who was lucky enough to have a lot of fortuitous encounters. Then, he would think that he was the savior of the world and that he was beating me, savaging me, and toying with me!
"A great man such as your father must've been invulnerable in normal times. Perhaps only when he was in such a state of mind could he reveal his flaws!"
Jin Xinyue's mouth opened wider and wider. "Therefore, you talked so much to my father just to make him lower his guard. So that he would reveal his secrets?
"But I felt that he was quite calm until the last second. He didn't reveal any of his secrets at all!
"What critical information did you get exactly, Master?"
Li Yao smiled and extended his index finger, "First of all. We have confirmed that the Red Tide Plan hasn't started yet. There is still time for us to stop it! "
"If we find that your father and all the demon emperors are not in the headquarters of the Pantheon of Demons when we arrive at Heavenly Path City, we will be screwed!"
"Because that means. They've already been teleported to the Tian Yuan Realm to begin the final battle, and all we can do is stare blankly, right? "
Jin Xinyue thought for a moment and shook her head. "That's not right. Didn't my father say that the war had already broken out?"
"That was just a feint!"
Li Yao went on. "You and I are both clear that the core of the Red Tide Plan is nothing more than a diversion. The whole plan can be divided into two phases. The first phase is a feint attack on the northern front. The cannon fodder troops disguised as the main force will launch an attack from the north side of the Xing Yao Federation through the traditional route of the Great Desolate Giant Blade Pass in the Dark Desolate Domain!
"As for the purpose of the feint attack … The purpose of the feint attack is to pin down all the elites of the Federation in the Giant Blade Pass and even lure them into the Grand Desolate Plateau to chase after the enemy, just like the 'Giant Crab Plan' that the Federation carried out last time. Most of the Crystal Suit Legions will be involved in the pursuit and annihilation of the 'cannon fodder troops', which will leave the rear of the Federation extremely empty!
"Then, the real main force of the Blood Demon Sector will suddenly appear in the heartland in the southeast of the Federation. It will deal a critical blow to the Federation!
"Feint to the east and attack to the west. There is a time difference between 'sound movement' and 'attack to the west'. The time difference will be used to lure the main force of the Federation as far away as possible. It's a simple logic, isn't it? "
Jin Xinyue thought quickly and immediately understood. "You do have a point, Master. The feint attack has just broken out, which means that there is still some time before the real attack.
"However, how can you be sure that the main force of the Blood Demon Sector hasn't been teleported to the Tian Yuan Realm in advance, Master? Chances are that they are lurking in the counterattack base of the Far East Demon Kingdom below the East Ocean of the Xing Yao Federation right now! "
Li Yao shook his head and said, "The odds of that are very slim.
"I don't know how many elites your father has gathered to implement the Red Tide Plan, but to cause serious damage to the heartland of the Federation, even if they are all one-in-ten thousand elites, it will take at least hundreds of thousands of them, won't it? Hundreds of thousands of experts, as well as all kinds of powerful demon beasts, skeleton tanks, and devilish warships. How many resources will they consume and how much demonic energy will they release every day?
"Such an enormous troop has been hiding below the eastern coastline of the Federation for half a month without being discovered? That would be a gross underestimation of the reconnaissance ability of the Xing Yao Federation!
"The Red Tide Plan is best kept confidential. Your father wouldn't have done such a stupid thing.
"Therefore, right now, the elites of the Coalition Army of Demons must be gathering somewhere in the Blood Demon Sector, conserving their strength and waiting to be teleported!
"Of course, it is just my speculation, which is not supported by any evidence. But what if your father is as straightforward and stupid as that?
"Therefore, our infiltration was actually a minor test, too."
"A test?" Jin Xinyue asked.
"Exactly!"
Li Yao explained. "Don't you find it strange? You introduced the defense system of Heavenly Path City to me in detail over the past few days. But judging from the defense forces that we encountered today, it's true that the defense in the air is impeccable, but isn't there something missing on the ground?"
Jin Xinyue was dazed for a moment. "That does seem to be the case. The sky was surrounded by the Mirage Falcons, the Ghost Face Silver Mosquitoes, and the Ghost Jellyfish. The demon emperors and the devilish warships arrived very quickly, too, but the troops on the ground were much fewer. We escaped without any trouble!"
"You said that the troops deployed near Heavenly Path City included the 'Eight Desolate Poison Dragons' legion of the Claw Clan, the 'Furious Waves Thunderous Beasts' legion of the Horn Clan, the 'Sky Tyrant Bulls' legion of the Insect Clan, and so on," Li Yao said. "But today, we didn't run into any of them. The troops on the ground that we encountered were all miscellaneous troops."
Jin Xinyue thought quickly and immediately understood what was going on. "The elite troops of the demon race that were deployed in Heavenly Path City, which equaled to the 'garrison of the capital city' of the Xing Yao Federation, have set off in advance for the final assembly point!
"Of the troops left in Heavenly Path City, the Ghost Face Silver Mosquitoes and the Ghost Jellyfish are one-off consumables and do not need to be brought with them. The Mirage Falcons, the devilish warships, and the demon emperors are all very fast and can reach the assembly point at any time!"
Li Yao smiled. "Look. You've read a lot of information, too.
"But that's just part of it.
"Although the elite troops have all left, there are still so many demon emperors and devilish warships in Heavenly Path City. Even your father is staying in Heavenly Path City.
"Such a national war is purely a last-ditch effort. Your father and so many demon emperors will certainly command and fight in the frontline in person, because their life or death will depend on the war. They have to do their best. It's impossible for them to have any backup plans.
"Your father and 'Ape Fiend' Yuan Riyue are still in Heavenly Path City, which confirms my speculation. The main force of the Coalition Army of Demons hasn't been teleported to the Tian Yuan Realm yet. They are still gathering somewhere in the Blood Demon Sector, waiting for the arrival of their commander before they start the large-scale teleportation!
"Look. Isn't the information critical enough?"
Jin Xinyue blinked her big, watery eyes and was dazed for a long time.
She was quite quick-witted in her daily life, but she felt that her brain was much slower in front of her master. Thinking for a long time, she hesitated and said, "Even if we know the information, so what? Can we still stop the 'Red Tide Plan'? "
Li Yao smiled cunningly. "About that, we'll have to count on the most critical piece of information that I got from your father!
"That is, what exactly is the Red Tide Plan? What is the real Red Tide Plan?"
Jin Xinyue was so surprised that she almost jumped to her feet. "Isn't the Red Tide Plan a diversion so that the main force of the Coalition Army of Demons will be teleported to the Tian Yuan Realm through the secret wormhole that the Far East Demon Kingdom developed in the past, while the main force of the Coalition Army of Demons will cover the main attack in the south and march into the heartland of the Federation, right?"
Li Yao narrowed his eyes, with brilliance beaming out of his eyes. "Do you really think that the Red Tide Plan is so simple?"
Jin Xinyue was completely dizzy. "Is — is it really simple? Is it not the truth, and everything is a disguise, and there is another real Red Tide Plan? "
Li Yao sighed and said, "Assuming that this is the truth of the Red Tide Plan, how did you learn it?"
Jin Xinyue frowned and said, "The Red Tide Plan is my father's decades of hard work. I am his daughter, and I discovered it by accident!"
"Like you said, your father is a heartless machine and an out-and-out great man," Li Yao said casually. "How much do you think he cares about his family?
"Besides, you killed your stepmother, his most beloved wife. You did a lot of things that harmed the interests of the Gold Crow Kingdom. You were even secretly plotting to kill him!
"He knew all those things!
"But he did not kill his family for justice. He even let his guard down and let you learn the truth of the Red Tide Plan! Don't you find it weird and suspicious? "
Jin Xinyue's forehead was covered in cold sweat. Her head seemed to be cut by two sharp scalpels. She couldn't help but shudder and mumble, "You're right, Master. Come to think of it, it is indeed weird. With my father's personality and wisdom, how could he have let his disobedient, ambitious daughter know the most critical plan?"
"It's not just you."
Li Yao said calmly. "In fact, in recent years, in order to persuade the tribes to implement the Red Tide Plan together, your father inevitably revealed part of the plan to the experts. Therefore, the Red Tide Plan is not a big secret among the leadership of the Blood Demon Sector at all!
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