Chapter 534: Go Help Xue'er

"Her mother has already found her a stepfather; can she not be schemed against?" Qian Daoliu said coldly in the sky.

Bibi Dong and Qin Jian looked at each other subconsciously, then both turned away.

This was truly an awkward thing to say...

"It's a pity that even with her planning, the Great Pontiff was still injured..."

Bibi Dong changed the subject, her red lips curling up: "Does the Great Pontiff still wish to fight? Are you not afraid of meeting your end here?"

"I meet my end here?"

Qian Daoliu stood with his hands behind his back, his expression calm and confident: "Are you not thinking a bit too optimistically?"

Bibi Dong stepped through the air a few times, walking to Qin Jian's side to face Qian Daoliu together: "If we could join forces to injure you once, we can injure you many more times."

"Join forces?"

Qian Daoliu said dismissively: "Why don't you ask him if he can still unleash the power he just used."

Bibi Dong's expression did not change, only her jade hand gripping the Scepter tightened inadvertently.

This speculation was not just held by Qian Daoliu; she had it herself as well...

"What? You think I have no power left to deal with you?" Qin Jian's expression remained unchanged.

"Your true strength is still that of a Soul Saint; such an outburst cannot be sustained and must have a price. I truly do not believe you can unleash it a third time," Qian Daoliu said indifferently.

"Regardless of whether he can still unleash that kind of power..."

Bibi Dong stepped forward twice, standing in front of Qin Jian: "As long as I am here, you cannot touch him!"

"Oh? Having already lost most of that power, where does your confidence to say such things come from?"

The Angel Spirit behind Qian Daoliu raised its sword again: "Do you think you can still block me now?"

The eight Spider Legs on Bibi Dong's body slowly spread out, her cold face like ice: "Whether I can block you or not, I will only know after trying."

In an instant, swords were drawn and bows were bent in the sky once more.

"Qian Daoliu..."

But Qin Jian suddenly spoke, his expression still calm: "Do you believe... if I am willing to pay the price, you will surely die?"

"I will surely die?"

Qian Daoliu pointed at himself, shaking his head with a laugh: "What a joke. Is it that Million-Year Spirit Beast Sacrifice passive field suppression again?"

He appeared to have everything under control: "Outside the maximum range of that field, all the Title Douluo of my Elder Hall are waiting there. As soon as you use it, they will all charge in together. Even if you suppress me for a short time, what of it?"

Sweat quietly seeped from Bibi Dong's palms.

She truly had not expected Qian Daoliu to utilize this opportunity, and to have a countermeasure for every one of Qin Jian's trump cards just after he had nearly exhausted his power.

One can only say... is he worthy of being her own child...

"No, no, no. I don't want to perish together with you. The killing I spoke of is not the Sacrifice..."

Qin Jian waved his hand.

"Hum..."

And just at this moment, a faint ripple suddenly came from the depths of the forest.

The momentum of this power was not great, but it made everyone's hair stand on end, including Bibi Dong and Qian Daoliu.

It was Na'er quietly exerting her true form's pressure...

It was merely pressure, with no actual effect.

"Did you feel that?"

Qin Jian looked at Qian Daoliu.

Qian Daoliu remained silent for a long time before saying: "This must also have limitations, otherwise I would already be dead."

"It does have limitations, true, but if you insist on making a move against me, then I cannot concern myself with that," Qin Jian said.

"Before I die, everyone present here will also surely die."

Qian Daoliu pointed at the Tianqing Niumang and Taitan Giant Ape below: "Including these few Soul Beasts."

The expressions of Yue Guan and the others from the Spirit Hall could not help but twist slightly.

The Great Pontiff of the Elder Hall was actually using their lives to threaten Qin Jian; had the Pope Palace and the Elder Hall completely torn off their masks?

"Are you threatening me?"

Qin Jian suddenly smiled: "It seems the Great Pontiff's goal is not to kill me."

Bibi Dong's expression also shifted: "Then please, Great Pontiff, speak plainly: why have you come?"

Qian Daoliu stood with his hands behind his back: "My goal is very simple..."

Then he pointed at Qin Jian and said indifferently: "I want him to go help Xue'er."

Once these words were spoken, Qin Jian's expression became as strange as it could possibly be.

Bibi Dong, however, exploded: "Don't even think about it!"

"Is this the goal you have been planning for so long?" Qin Jian could not help but ask.

Qian Daoliu looked at him and said indifferently: "It is Xue'er who wants you. If it were up to my own heart, naturally, I would kill you if I could."

"So now that you've discovered you can't kill me, you've changed the conditions?"

Qin Jian said: "It seems I have no need to be threatened by you now."

Qian Daoliu said unhurriedly: "Originally, Xue'er's scheme was not for me to kill you, but for me to lure you into using the Sacrifice suppression, and then the other Title Douluo of my Elder Hall would naturally capture you... However, it is the same now..."

He said indifferently: "As long as I hold back Bibi Dong, the other Title Douluo can still come to capture you, provided one Title Douluo is left to guard against your Sacrifice."

"You really are meticulous in every calculation..."

Qin Jian lost his sense of crisis and began to fold his arms: "May I ask who this Xue'er you speak of is?"

Qian Daoliu casually created a soundproof barrier, then said: "Xue'er is Xue Qinghe."

Qin Jian cooperated fully by showing a look of shock: "The Crown Prince of the Heaven Dou Empire is actually a member of the Spirit Hall?"

A look of heartache flashed through the depths of Qian Daoliu's eyes: "She has already been lurking in the Heaven Dou Empire for twenty years."

"Since that is the case, why do you still need my help?"

Qin Jian asked in confusion: "After twenty years, hasn't the current Heaven Dou Empire been infiltrated until it's like a sieve?"

"No, what Xue'er is worried about is not the Heaven Dou Empire, but the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect."

Qian Daoliu looked at him and said: "She has noticed some of Ning Fengzhi's actions; it seems he also has ideas regarding the Heaven Dou Empire, for instance, the fact that Ning Rongrong has now become a Foreign Surname Princess of the Heaven Dou Empire."

"Do you really think I would go against my own sect for the sake of Xue Qinghe?" Qin Jian said.

"Xue'er does not intend to ask you to do anything; you only need to serve as her advisor, and you must not reveal her identity to anyone."

Qian Daoliu stood with his hands behind his back and said calmly: "That will be enough."

Qin Jian pondered for a moment, a look of realization flashing through his eyes.

It seems Xue Qinghe intends to make Ning Fengzhi retreat in the face of difficulties, or perhaps create a crisis of trust between him and Qin Jian.

After all, according to Xue Qinghe's request, he cannot tell Ning Fengzhi about Xue Qinghe's identity, yet he must stay by Xue Qinghe's side as an advisor; doesn't that mean he is supporting Xue Qinghe?

In this way, Ning Fengzhi will either stand on Qin Jian's side, or he will have a disagreement with Qin Jian.

How should one describe this plan...

It really strikes directly at the human heart; it seems Xue Qinghe simply does not believe that after he, Qin Jian, joined the Spirit Hall, he could still have complete trust with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect Sect Master Ning Fengzhi.

Sigh, this child has narrowed her own path...

As long as Ning Rongrong is there, it is impossible for him and Ning Fengzhi to walk two different paths.

Even if one thinks from a realistic perspective, Ning Fengzhi only has one daughter, Ning Rongrong, and Ning Rongrong has clearly set her heart entirely on him, Qin Jian, so what else is there for Ning Fengzhi to consider?

No matter how different their ideas might be, they will surely unify their opinions in the end; they will never play their own separate games, let alone face a situation of estrangement and discord...

(End of this chapter)