This time was no different.
Wen Xishu noticed that at the start, the mission's prompt was to find the "demon" behind the scenes.
But now, the description of An Rongzai had changed to the Demon King.
This meant that the Miracle Plan had failed; An Rongzai had suffered a setback. But interestingly enough, this powerful elder had once again achieved a miracle.
Such an opponent was extremely terrifying; such an opponent should not have appeared on the seventh layer.
In a sense, it was An Rongzai who spared each one of them.
This might be an expression of An Rongzai's character, his final act of mercy before he transcended humanity to become a god.
So everything made sense—An Rongzai ultimately let the two brothers go, accepted his failure, but as a grand figure, immediately began an even grander plan.
What that plan was, Wen Xishu did not know, but the difficulty of its implementation and the cost it required were definitely more extravagant than the Reverse Seven Plan.