Chapter 260: All Set

"This… won't it be too dangerous?"

Hearing Fang Can wanted to act as bait, Ji Donglai hesitated.

"If you don't enter the tiger's den, how can you catch its cubs? It's all necessary sacrifice—they won't kill me," Fang Can said calmly.

"They won't kill you, sure, but it's still dangerous," Li Huowang rubbed his chin. "You've got to be extra careful about Jitou Si."

Fang Can:???

Seeing the boy's confused expression, the others remembered he was only eighteen.

For all his confident talk earlier, his street experience was extremely shallow; his mind still subconsciously lingered in the phase of heterosexual intercourse and didn't realize same-sex threats could be even more treacherous.

"Look, you're a natural furnace vessel, right? Those people want you to use."

"And that Reversed Gate seems to specialize in Kuai—its male martial artists vastly outnumber the females."

"Don't you think they might get impatient and test the furnace vessel's effects right after capturing you?"

"And they certainly can't go grab some ordinary Miss to experiment on, can they? So the end result is either you fuck men or men fuck you."

As Li Huowang spoke, he noticed Fang Can's face relax into a grin: "You mean that? Then no problem."

He'd thought what? He'd never overlooked something like this—he'd made martial artists perform ultimate humiliations on Yuan Dang, so naturally he'd guarded against such male-on-male tactics.

"You're right, this could hurt me more than death itself, but I've already divined a hex—it's completely safe."

"You can divine that?"

Their faces showed shock—his fortune ability was being turned into precognition.

Of course. The hex told me this journey holds no worries, no life-threatening danger, no need to fear Shi Hu devouring Liu Lian's horror—as long as I hold fast to my heart.

"So rest easy," Fang Can assured, thumping his chest.

As he spoke, the peach blossom fortune above his head grew even more vigorous.

"Fine. Since you've made up your mind, let's follow the plan."

Ji Donglai nodded, ultimately choosing to trust Fang Can's fortune would protect his chastity.

"Next, I'll have this fellow bind you and take you into the Reversed Gate," Yi Neng Wang said.

"Alright. While we have time, I'll first instruct my followers and women—after I'm gone, you'll need to hide them for me," Fang Can said.

"Rest assured, we'll handle this," Ji Donglai nodded.

"And… the Dayan imperial family must not die out. Quickly hold a new imperial selection—keep them as nominal puppet emperors," Fang Can instructed.

With time now available, everything that needed saying had to be said, lest these fools cause trouble later.

"Why?" Ji Donglai frowned, puzzled why he cared about the imperial family.

Having followed Xiao Liu for so long, Fang Can knew more secret martial arts lore than Ji Donglai, who could only gather intelligence among low-transformation martial artists.

So now he said seriously: "A hundred years ago, Dayan survived its rampage through the martial world only because of techniques left by the founding Dayan Divine Lord—otherwise, there's no way they could have angered the martial world so severely and still lived."

Fang Can said calmly: "We still lack the strength to challenge fifth-transformation martial artists, so we must still hold back a little, to avoid stirring up more trouble."

"And Li Huowang, among these third-transformation ones… can you spare the old general and Prince Qing?"

Fang Can whispered: "They once helped me. Prince Qing is even the father of one of my closest friends. Though we've had a falling out now, can you spare their lives?"

Hearing this, Li Huowang snorted: "Fang Can, you're too soft. You'll regret this."

Unmoved by the tone, Fang Can sighed: "Enough. Can we stop playing your 'regret me, shadow' gag now?"

"Gag understood: 10 points. Not playing along: 2 points. Discard highest, discard lowest. Your score: 0 points," Li Huowang evaluated coldly.

After speaking, he nodded: "Fine. Since you said so, I'll spare them. The rest of the Ascension Path martial artists will serve as my Impure Earth Reincarnation tools."

Saying this, Li Huowang chuckled.

"Actually, I've already arranged the rest of the martial artists," Fang Can said calmly to Li Huowang, explaining his next plan—making Li Huowang's eyes slowly widen.

"OK, your idea's good, but it feels wasteful—these materials are too precious," Li Huowang hesitated.

"No choice. Our firepower is still too weak. Since we're burning the boats, we might as well use them all at once—there'll be plenty more martial artists from other nations later. We can grab them by the handful."

After carefully thinking through and arranging everything, Fang Can finally nodded lightly, feeling he'd said all he needed to.

"Now disperse. I'll spend half an hour arranging my affairs, then let this fellow take me to the Reversed Gate."

Fang Can pointed at the second-transformation man, who was already bowing respectfully with a sycophantic grin.

"Alright, then see you in three days," Ji Donglai said, somewhat worried.

"Farewell. I'll go find the families of those martial artists—who dared defy me? I'll castrate their nine clans!" F Superman snarled.

Watching the man shoot skyward, Fang Can thought he'd likely get nothing.

After all, most of these martial artists had already voluntarily severed their roots—you can't destroy something that doesn't exist.

Silently swallowing his thoughts, Fang Can also shot skyward toward his mansion.

The distance of several kilometers took only seconds. When he landed again, the martial artists around him, who had been anxious moments before, instinctively gathered close.

"Ah Can, are you alright?" Ye Qingshi's fingers, like everyone else's, were tense with worry.

"Of course I'm fine. We've already subdued all of Jingcheng."

Hearing Fang Can's words, those present showed no real joy.

Because second- and third-transformation martial artists were just small fry—the real threat was the fourth-transformation ones, who would make escape nearly impossible.

After all, fourth-transformation was nearly divine in their eyes; even Ascension Path martial artists were unreachable to them, yet Fang Can was only first-transformation…

Facing their hesitation, Fang Can smiled gently, taking Ye Qingshi's soft hand, then looked at the others:

"Now, contact all of Jingcheng's followers and obey my family's orders—find a place to settle. I have a major task ahead."

"May I ask, Divine One, what is this great task?" Ye Yonglie asked respectfully.

Fang Can smiled faintly, his voice carrying a hint of deadly intent: "Kill a dozen or so fourth-transformation martial artists!"

(End of Chapter)