Liu Daoming, leader of the Mountain Heng group, had watched Li Fan from his arrival to deploying all sorts of bizarre Too Mysterious Classics techniques and summoning various demons and spirits to snatch kills, all with impassive faces as if the sky falling wouldn't startle them, until now when Li Fan unveiled their "enormous conspiracy of Mountain Heng," only then did they all look at him in astonishment and surprise, halting the incantations and arrangements they had been working on for a moment.
But Li Fan felt something was off about their expressions. Theoretically, when the villain's conspiracy is exposed, they should either be confident or fly into a rage, right? How come they are all looking shocked? It's like they haven't read the script!
Liu Daoming himself was also stunned by Li Fan's rapid verbal assault and it took him a good while to respond, "An ambush on Emei... this, our sect has no such intention... This speculation, it's too... inconceivable... inconceivable..."