While many secretly believed Li Qiye and the Celestial Dao Academy had colluded to wipe out the conspirators in one fell swoop, no one knew the truth. This battle was, in fact, personally directed by Li Qiye; the entire strategy of luring the enemy out only to trap and slaughter them was his design alone.
The Great Fissure at the Celestial Dao Academy was real. However, the news of its final, cataclysmic eruption—the academy's supposed doomsday—was not. It was nothing more than a ruse, intentionally spread by the academy to lure the conspirators into their trap.
The conspirators truly believed the Celestial Dao Academy could no longer hold on, that with the full eruption of the Great Fissure, the academy would be utterly destroyed. Unwittingly, they walked right into the trap.
