Their plan failed because Wang Yao's continuous southward journey severely disrupted the operation of the magic array, the fact that the demon lords were all at the Mahayana realm and had strong resistance to the magic array's transformation, and the timely intervention of the Heavenly Court.
Otherwise, when Yang Shen and Hu Mei reveal their true colors, the fate of the demon lords will probably be no better than that of the shadow puppets.
This makes perfect sense. The reason why Wang Yao's otherworldly reinforcements did not encounter any major blockades along the way is because Yang Shen and Hu Mei simply did not want to block them!
Even if the otherworldly reinforcements take over the Decapitation Demon City, so what? As long as Hu Mei and the others turn the Demon Lords into Saruman's shadow puppets, the otherworldly reinforcements will likely face annihilation if they don't obediently return to where they came from.
However, there is still one question that cannot be explained: what about the million-strong army in the hands of the Decapitation Demon Lord that was inexplicably "affected" by the Battle of Thousand Sails Port? If this army had not suffered any losses, Wang Yao's reinforcements would not have been able to go south at all, and Hu Mei and the others would have been spared a troublesome matter.
Unless the Decapitation Demon Lord wasn't a shadow puppet, and Hu Mei and her group were simply weakening the Demon Realm by taking advantage of the situation at Thousand Sails Harbor, they also managed to destroy the Decapitation Demon Domain.
But if the Decapitation Demon Lord wasn't a shadow puppet, why did Hu Mei and the others let him return to the Decapitation Demon City at the crucial moment of the magic array's operation? Doesn't this seem like letting a tiger return to the mountain? Did they think that with five Demon Lords at their disposal, they no longer needed to worry about the Decapitation Demon Lord, who had already suffered heavy losses?
Regardless, the Decapitation Demon Lord is highly suspicious, and Wang Yao's question is intended to focus the attention on the Decapitation Demon Lord and find out whether the Decapitation Demon Lord is indeed the Shadow Puppet.
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