Chapter 167

"Master said that if you consider too little before doing something, it's easy to leak everywhere, but if you consider too much, you fall into the predicament of being indecisive. There is no plan that considers every corner thoroughly. Even if you spend a lot of time doing it, the matter might have become something else by then," the young lady took a deep breath and exhaled. "Just like this."

"Good," Seeing Pei Ye nodded. "So, we now have a Seventh Life in the dark, and an Eighth Life even more in the dark. So what kind of prey are you looking forward to?"

"We naturally hope to lure that Eighth Life, but in reality, if they only see the first layer, the one who comes will be a Seventh Life. If they see the second layer, the ones who come might be two or three Seventh Lives."

"That's already quite ambitious."

"If you set a big bait, you naturally want to catch a big fish," Li Piaoqing smiled.

Seeing Pei Ye glanced at her—the bigger the fish, the more dangerous the bait naturally is.

"What if that master comes?"

"He won't, because my master cannot join this ambush, so the Seven Serpents Cave Master cannot participate in the predation either."

Seeing Pei Ye nodded slowly. It seems that the two masters are checking and balancing each other.

He combed through this plan again. Although there were many twists and turns in front, the key to the end was that the Seven Serpents Cave could count the three Seventh Lives of Cuiyu clearly, knowing that no matter how it was designed, there would not be another expert suddenly, so they would choose to release enough power to bite off the bait and hook.

But they wouldn't think that the Eighth Life of the Bai Zhu Pavilion would participate.

After all, the news that 'Qing Zi Huang' had lost one was still being kept secret, and the Bai Zhu Pavilion really had no sufficient reason to take the field.

The alliance between the Bai Zhu Pavilion and Cuiyu also stemmed from mutual leverage—one side took the initiative to reveal the secret that the pillar had broken, and the other side boldly used the other's Eighth Life as the last card.

As long as one side had this courage, this alliance would not have been reached so quickly.

For Seeing Pei Ye, the Bai Zhu Pavilion was naturally a strange force. The only basis for trust was that 'Zhang Siche' seemed to be a knight against the Candle World Sect. But since Li Piaoqing and the Cuiyu Sect believed in this help, Seeing Pei Ye believed in their judgment.

"Then, when does this plan start?" Seeing Pei Ye thought and finally asked the most important question.

"Three days later, on the night of the Luzhou Poetry Gathering, everyone will go to participate, and I will stay here," Li Piaoqing said, then looked at Seeing Pei Ye. "You really don't need to worry about this. We will arrange things well. And, one more of you doesn't make much difference."

"Alright, I'll come then," Seeing Pei Ye seemed not to have heard the second half of the sentence and nodded earnestly.

Actually, he really didn't think much about this matter in his heart now. The young lady's plan was indeed heavy enough. If it could succeed, it would inevitably be a heavy blow to the Seven Serpents, but it didn't poke Seeing Pei Ye's heart, not refreshing enough.

After all, this plan had more to do with Cuiyu than with 'Seeing Pei Ye'. Seeing Pei Ye was not a Cuiyu disciple, nor had he seen the Seventh Lives of the Seven Serpents Cave. He was certainly willing to see the burden on his friend's shoulders lighten and the smiles on their faces increase, and he was also willing to see Bowang have more sincere young people who were dedicated to the sword, and fewer arrogant and provocative villains.

But this kind of satisfaction arising from the outside and the refreshment arising from the inside were different after all.

So he was thinking about some more refreshing things.

"Alright, I told you everything, and you started pretending not to hear again," the young lady sighed. "I told you everything one by one, just because I didn't want you to act recklessly and have any danger—I've felt since I was a child that it's the stupidest thing for friends to make stupid mistakes because of mutual suspicion."

"No," Seeing Pei Ye came back to his senses, a bit embarrassed. "I'm listening. I mean, this time I help you bite the Seven Serpents, and later you help me kill that old man, isn't that mutual help?"

"." The young lady tilted her head helplessly.

"Besides, this old man and the Seven Serpents... seem to have some vague relationship too," Seeing Pei Ye stood up with a smile and confirmed again, "Three days later at night, right?"

After getting the young lady's nod, he went out the door.

The taciturn tall man was leaning against the outer wall of the door. Seeing Pei Ye was startled when he saw him, nodded to each other, and left the west courtyard.

"Actually," after the young man had been gone for a long time, the man's steady voice sounded in the quiet air, "it doesn't matter if you let him come."

Li Piaoqing was startled, then smiled and shook her head.

The man nodded and didn't speak again. The clothes on his body were a bit ill-fitting, but it didn't damage his steady and hard temperament, just like the ancient pine in the courtyard that didn't know how many years it had been.

——

Three days.

Seeing Pei Ye put one hand into the sword box, touching the familiar warm and smooth surface, and picked up a branch with the other hand, writing the three words 'Qijiao Shang Huaitong' crookedly on the ground.

The young man looked at this name. The man's cloak like black clouds appeared in front of his eyes again, but now it no longer looked like the wings of an eagle, but had become a vulture.

Then Seeing Pei Ye thought of the beautiful woman in front of him today and frowned.

Qi Zhaohua, don't follow in Zhang Junyu's footsteps...

This matter must be reminded to the woman.

His gaze returned to the three words in front of him, and Seeing Pei Ye knocked on the sword body.

Actually, this was the first time the young man tried to actively 'plot' something, and he thought about it extremely seriously.

Just as Li Piaoqing said, after forming a grudge with the Cuiyu Sect, there would definitely be no lack of experts around Qijiao Shang Huaitong, and as long as there was one Seventh Life, it would be very difficult for him to succeed.

And if Cuiyu sets bait in the city, will the experts around Qijiao Shang Huaitong go?

If that expert dies there, will Qijiao Shang Huaitong be briefly unprotected?

This was the first gap Seeing Pei Ye thought of that could be used to make a move, and he recorded it strictly in his heart.

If following this plan, to kill this person, it should be after Cuiyu succeeds.

Grabbing this timing is even more important, so kill Qijiao Shang Huaitong first, and then plot against the old man who escaped.

Plotting against the Seven Serpents with Li Piaoqing, plotting against Qijiao Shang Huaitong with Zhang Junxue, plotting against the criminal with Yang Yan.

Seeing Pei Ye couldn't help but smile—what a coincidence, everyone seems to be missing that bit of help.

And he just happened to be their friend.

The feeling of being able to do something is much better than being powerless.

Suddenly his thinking paused, he pulled his hand out of the sword box and raised it to look at it.

Inside the lower abdomen, the small grass was turning into thorn wood.

Differentiation, extension, growth, the simple four meridians became eight. Looking at it, it had become a small handful, and it was no longer possible to see the number clearly.

Third Life.

Seeing Pei Ye clenched his fist. At this realm, true Qi could already provide him with a considerable amount of help. But he still had to reach the Fourth Life for the power brought by true Qi to exceed the young man's natural root bone.

Sigh, I'm in a bad state today, my head is dizzy, only this chapter, the remaining two thousand will be posted today.

(End of chapter)