"Oh, that's fine, there was a delay."
"Everything's resolved. Aside from a heap of Dianhuo Sect cult members sacrificed, and a pile of gray-black mud, no one else got hurt."
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The Demon King arrives on the front foot, and the next moment everyone's popping champagne?
Your narrative leap is way too massive.
"What?"
Amid a moment of silence, the Sect Master of Baicao Sect was the first to speak. She looked at Wang Siyu and asked worriedly, "Did you hear that right? Exactly how delayed is your talisman?"
"A day."
Wang Siyu said heavily, "The talisman Old Lin left me was from yesterday. I was sleeping too deeply and missed it. The one he just sent me was from a stick of incense ago."
¿
Dragon Tiger Mountain actually appoints someone this unreliable as the Second Elder?
