Commonly said, it is darkest under the lamp.
The place where Sun Yixie hid could be said to be the most dangerous, yet simultaneously it was the safest.
The members of the Fire Lotus Sect thought that their precautions were adequate because they had surrounded the ritual platform layer upon layer before noon to prevent the approach of unrelated individuals.
But they didn't know, that long before dawn, Sun Yixie had already quietly crawled underneath this platform.
Then might you ask, didn't anyone check during the entire morning?
Well, weren't they busy "gathering contributions" in the morning? Everyone was out robbing others, so who was free for these tasks? By the time noon arrived and they were free, the ritual was about to start, and they needed to guard against the people coming from all directions.
Then some might ask, why was it Sun Yixie hiding here, and not Huang Donglai?
