Chapter 239: For the Big Picture

"Su Mo?"

"Coming to visit so late, just to actively exchange with me?"

"Must be an assassin!"

"Don't see him!!"

Ning Zhuo got the report from the Foundation Establishment guard and shook his head immediately: "Drive him away."

Ning Zhuo's attitude was very straightforward and very firm.

The Foundation Establishment guard showed hesitation: "Young Master Ning Zhuo, if you do this, I'm afraid..."

"Afraid of what?"

The Foundation Establishment guard continued: "I'm afraid it will be detrimental to your reputation."

"This Su Mo claims to be a bottom-level cultivator, if you don't even respond to such a challenger, if it spreads out, what will the outside world think of you, Young Master?"

Ning Zhuo sneered: "What you said, how could I not know?"

"The other party probably heard the rumors and came to spy on me on purpose."

"He must have others behind him!"

"It's possible this isn't spying, but assassination."

"Reputation is important, but my little life is more important."

"I climbed up from the bottom, you see, others dislike the black market business for dirtying their hands, I won't! I am very pragmatic."

Saying this, Ning Zhuo added: "However, what you reminded me of is not unreasonable."

"Like this, you invite Su Mo to the courtyard and treat him with good wine and food."

"You tell him like this, say that the wind has been tight recently, the situation is strange, and someone is slandering and spreading rumors about me. I have recorded this challenge and exchange, and will continue to compete when I have time."

"Recently, I will stay behind closed doors and won't easily make a move. The signs are not right, the signs are not right."

"It is very likely that someone will come to assassinate me!"

"Do you think I'm stupid?"

"Hehehe, I won't easily give the assassin a chance."

"Hmm..."

"Tomorrow, I will move back to the clan land to live."

Ning Zhuo let out a cold laugh.

"Subordinate understands, I will do it now." The Foundation Establishment guard retreated.

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Ning Zhuo explained, persuading him.

However, these words of Ning Zhuo were not mainly for him to hear, but for someone else.

Zhu Xuanji and Ning Jiufan heard Ning Zhuo's plan and frowned slightly.

They wanted Ning Zhuo to act as bait to induce the City Lord's Mansion to assassinate, so that they would make a mistake. But Ning Zhuo himself also realized that the situation was not right and already wanted to retreat.

"This won't do!" Zhu Xuanji thought.

Ning Jiufan frowned: "Moving into the clan land to live, won't he be assassinated? Naive!"

He didn't want to see Ning Zhuo act like this.

Although Ning Zhuo moving into the clan land was indeed safer for him than here. But if the City Lord's Mansion really wanted to assassinate, the mere clan land couldn't stop the assassin.

Ning Zhuo moving to the clan land would instead increase casualties. After the assassination happened, other clansmen of the Ning family would likely suffer as well.

Zhu Xuanji simply transmitted to Ning Jiufan: "Brother Ning, please arrange it. Ning Zhuo is a disciple of your Ning family."

It was not very convenient for Zhu Xuanji to come forward for this kind of thing.

Ning Jiufan coming to persuade was the most justified.

Thus, Ning Jiufan transmitted to Ning Zhuo.

"Ancestor, Ancestor!" Ning Zhuo heard this and was overjoyed, calling out hurriedly, "Ancestor, you have come to save me! I will never forget your life-saving kindness."

Ning Jiufan told Ning Zhuo not to be afraid, that he had already arrived nearby, lurked down, and was protecting Ning Zhuo. And let Ning Zhuo bravely meet the challenge!

"Even if this Su Mo is an assassin, I will guarantee your life safety." Ning Jiufan said so.

Ning Zhuo shrank his head: "Ancestor, I, I don't want to."

He touched his big head and suddenly revealed a look of realization.

"Wait, could it be..."

"Ancestor, could it be that you spread the rumors, saying I got the Demonic Path True Scripture?"

"You are protecting me in secret and letting me meet the challenge, isn't this obviously using me as bait?"

"Who are you trying to deal with?"

Ning Jiufan coughed: "You don't need to ask about who."

If he really told Ning Zhuo that they were dealing with the City Lord's Mansion this time, wouldn't he be afraid that Ning Zhuo would be scared paralyzed?

So, Ning Jiufan didn't respond directly but brushed it off.

Ning Zhuo was certainly not stupid.

"I won't do it, I won't do it!!"

"This job is too dangerous, one carelessness and my little life will be gone, Ancestor."

"My little arms and legs can't bear it."

Seeing Ning Zhuo so uncooperative, Ning Jiufan couldn't help but snort coldly.

Where did this cold snort not only fail to scare Ning Zhuo, but instead stimulated his "rebelliousness".

"Ancestor, you can't do this, Ancestor!"

"Although I am a branch line, I am also a person, and I also have the surname Ning."

"You can't treat me differently, Ancestor."

"If you do this, it's too chilling, Ancestor."

Ning Jiufan was said this, and suddenly felt that he had suddenly become a biased family head, very muddled.

Ning Jiufan said coldly: "You kid, stop shouting. I tell you, even if the main line patriarch stood in your current position, he would have to do this."

"This is the big picture."

"You stand in this position, the situation is urging you. You have to take care of the big picture, child."

Ning Zhuo stiffened his neck: "No, I won't do it!"

"Ancestor, don't force me anymore."

"Where is there an ancestor forcing a junior to die?"

"If you force me again, I will kneel in the ancestral hall, I will hold your father's, your grandfather's spirit tablets and cry!"

"I will go to complain! I will move to live in the ancestral hall, eating, drinking, and defecating all there."

Ning Jiufan:?!

For a time, he was stunned.

To tell the truth, he had never seen such a family junior!

This was too disrespectful.

He was about to take action to teach Ning Zhuo a lesson, but was stopped by Zhu Xuanji.

Zhu Xuanji said: "Right now, we still need this child to cooperate with us."

"The big picture is important, stabilizing him for the time being is the best strategy."

Ning Jiufan frowned immediately.

Zhu Xuanji added: "Ning Zhuo is a junior of your family, don't you understand him?"

"I will remind you a little."

"He comes from a branch family and has been treated harshly since childhood. Although he attended the academy and received training, his mechanical arts have always been accumulating without ever standing out. This means he hasn't received much attention in the academy."

"It was the time period when the Lava Immortal Palace came out that his mechanical art attainment reached the level of thick accumulation and thin hair."

"It was also recently that he discovered he had talent."

"Such a teenager, unloved by uncles and aunts, grew up wildly for sixteen years, don't expect him to respect the elders and high-level of the Ning family from the bottom of his heart."

"Don't forget, he just pulled your clan's young patriarch down from his horse not long ago. Until now, your former young patriarch is still locked in the family private prison, right?"

Ning Jiufan's frown tightened: "Then according to Lord Zhu's meaning..."

Zhu Xuanji just smiled and didn't answer.

Ning Jiufan felt unhappy!

What?

He, a dignified Jin Dan of the Ning family, an ancestor of the Ning family, still has to accommodate a junior of the family?

Simply upside down!

But Zhu Xuanji was not wrong, everything must take care of the big picture.

What is the current big picture?

That is to induce the City Lord's Mansion to make a mistake and send someone to assassinate Ning Zhuo.

Only by grabbing the handle of the City Lord's Mansion can we prove and expose the City Lord's Mansion's crime of sending black shadow demonic cultivators to blow up the Immortal Palace and raise bandits to respect themselves!

Once the crime is confirmed, the South Bean Royal Family can take action openly and overturn the entire situation of the Fire Persimmon Immortal City.

By then, Zhu Xuanji doesn't need to do anything, just be guaranteed to become the Palace Master of the Immortal Palace.

Ning Jiufan couldn't help but fall into silence.

Right now, once Ning Zhuo quits and doesn't continue to pretend, it will be easy for Fei Si to discover flaws, have vigilance, and talk about assassination?

So, Zhu Xuanji was right, we must stabilize Ning Zhuo and persuade Ning Zhuo to cooperate with them.

Of course, the Jin Dan ancestors were not without means, such as some spells, which could control Ning Zhuo like a puppet.

But this approach was not good.

On one hand, they were all righteous paths and wanted style. A dignified senior, six in total, bullying a junior in the Qi Refining stage, this didn't make sense.

Especially since Ning Jiufan was the ancestor of the Ning family and should have protected the young clansmen, but instead colluded with five other Jin Dan to bully and control his own junior, this was too tasteless.

On the other hand, Ning Zhuo needed to maintain a normal state. Only if he was willing to cooperate could he deceive Fei Si to the greatest extent.

The means of forced control that the ancestors could use would easily leave clues or anomalies that were difficult to cover up, allowing Fei Si to discover them easily.

"Ancestor, Ancestor, are you there? Are you still there?" Ning Zhuo saw Ning Jiufan not responding to him for a long time and called out in a low voice.

"I am here." Ning Jiufan was laughed at by him, "You stinky kid, simply asking for a beating."

"I clearly tell you here, you can't escape, stay here for me, waiting for the assassination."

"With me here, you won't die!"

"The emperor doesn't send hungry soldiers, what do you want, say it. Let me see if I can reward you. I won't let you take risks in vain."

Ning Zhuo smiled bitterly and sat on the seat.

His face was very ugly: "Can't I really run? Ancestor."

Ning Jiufan's tone was deep: "No."

"Alright. Make your request quickly." Ning Jiufan became impatient, he was a dignified Jin Dan, Ning Zhuo was just a small Qi Refining, such an attitude was already extremely rare.

"Good." Ning Zhuo gritted his teeth, "Ancestor, I want to inherit the entire family, I want to be the patriarch!"

Ning Jiufan:...

"Ancestor? Ancestor?" Ning Zhuo called again.

Ning Jiufan was laughed at by him for the second time: "You are just a Qi Refining stage, your ambition is so big, you actually want to covet the position of patriarch?"

Ning Zhuo hurriedly said: "Ancestor, being a patriarch is so majestic, I just want it."

"Especially, now that our Ning family, the main line people look at our branch line unpleasantly all day, trying every means to suppress us from all aspects."

"Our branch line's days are very bitter."

"Otherwise, I wouldn't have brought a group of people to make a living in the black market, Ancestor."

Ning Jiufan heard this and fell into silence again.

He was not unaware of the situation of the Ning family, he was also informed, knowing that Ning Zhuo was right.

But it was difficult for Ning Jiufan to take action against the main line.

The main line was also the bloodline of the Ning family and the direct descendants of another Ning family ancestor. Ning Jiufan promised his friend that he would take care of his descendants.