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Chapter 1289 - Chapter 1289 Chapter 581 The Plan that Shook Xihe

Chapter 1289: Chapter 581: The Plan that Shook Xihe Chapter 1289: Chapter 581: The Plan that Shook Xihe “`

Since a different person was to negotiate, there was no need to sit idly any longer. Ji Fu stood up, intending to move to the inner hall. But before entering, he seemed to remember something and stopped his steps. Turning back, he advised Tang Luo, “With such talent, you should focus more on the martial path. Such schemes and strategies will only exhaust your energy and cloud your Dao Heart. On the road to becoming a king, every second counts; don’t fall behind.”

In any case, these words were indeed heartfelt, but in Tang Luo’s view, power without mental balance is just a weapon without its own will, and those in power who only valued schemes and were weak against the wind were too easily manipulated. Therefore, in his eyes, those who venerate either martial power or cunning alone are both flawed paths.

Ultimately, it was just a difference in philosophy, with no clear superiority. Tang Luo could still feel the good intentions behind Ji Fu’s persuasion.

So, he did not resist, nodding with a smile, “Thank you for the reminder, Brother Ji. I will keep it in mind.”

“Hmm,” Ji Fu nodded in satisfaction, seeing Tang Luo take his advice graciously, and then turned to walk into the inner chamber.

After a while, the housekeeper came out and respectfully informed Tang Luo that the leader of the Slaughter Immortal Army, Ji Xuanyuan, was waiting in the side hall.

It seemed that this must be the person Ji Fu had arranged for him to discuss with.

Standing up to follow the housekeeper into the side hall, Ji Xuanyuan, who sat majestically, did not stand up to greet him but instead looked down with an inexplicably contemptuous expression.

“Young man, you don’t know the immensity of heaven and earth, always mistaking potential for real strength. I thought the Longxi’s Pride who managed to coerce the Saint Child into an alliance was different from the rest. Now it appears that hubris is the common ailment of all prodigies!”

After making this comment disdainfully, the heroic man casually pointed to a seat below, scornfully saying, “Take a seat wherever you like, and while you’re at it, talk about that dream of destroying the core of Hanging Sky City and disrupting Cao Jinyu’s path to becoming the Saint King!”

Ignoring Ji Xuanyuan’s sarcasm, Tang Luo casually chose a chair to sit down, then closed his eyes to rest, as if there was no one at all upon the dais.

Ji Xuanyuan, watching Tang Luo completely disregard him, spoke coldly again, “If not for the Saint Child’s sake, I wouldn’t have the time to waste on you. And yet, you still put on such airs, truly laughable!”

Tang Luo, with his eyes closed, let out a scoff as if he had heard something amusing, which made Ji Xuanyuan, who wanted to intimidate him, even more annoyed.

Already averse to the idea of allying with the Tang Clan and now encountering the Lingxiao Sect’s cutbacks on the precious medicinal herbs for the Slaughter Immortal Army, he held some resentment towards Tang Luo.

He had intended to teach Tang Luo a lesson for asking help from the Ji Clan, but Tang Luo’s calm and composed demeanor made him feel unexpectedly at a loss.

If Tang Luo left in anger, he could just spin a tale that Tang Luo was merely bluffing, aware that his lies would be exposed and thus chose to use the Escape Technique to flee.

But now, with Tang Luo just sitting there in the side hall, showing no intention to communicate, when the fellow clan members later noticed something was amiss and Ji Fu inquired about the progress, the blame would fall on Ji Xuanyuan himself.

This kid, too sly for his own good!

Ji Xuanyuan, irritated to the point of gnashing his teeth, took a deep breath and said gravely, “Tang Tianjiao, if you have any feasible plans, just speak up. This pretense of ignoring everything is a waste of time and benefits no one.”

“Oh, finally, Commander Ji has arrived,” Tang Luo said.

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Tang Luo opened his eyes and smiled towards the hall, as if he had just noticed the presence of the Great Commander of the Slaughter Immortal Army, “Just now, there was barking in the hall and yet no sight of the commander, so I closed my eyes to rest. Can we have a talk now?”

“Please enlighten me, Pride of Heaven!”

Ji Xuanyuan said stiffly, his face as cold as frost.

“I have come to discuss with the Ji Family the plan regarding the fall of Hanging Sky City.”

Tang Luo took out the plan he had already prepared from his chest and gently passed it with a soft force into the hands of Ji Xuanyuan sitting above in the hall, then began to explain, “The plan for the fall of Hanging Sky City is divided into two parts, the first is called ‘throwing a brick to attract jade, luring the tiger away from the mountain’; the second part is ‘taking a secret path to attack the vital points!’ For now, we mainly discuss the first part, and in this operation concerning the fall of Hanging Sky City, the most crucial aspect is to coax Cao Jinyu to lead the Royal Patrol army on a campaign, leaving Hanging Sky City… unguarded…”

“Absurd.”

Listening to Tang Luo’s words that seemed child’s play, Ji Xuanyuan couldn’t help interrupting, “Although the Royal Patrol is an intelligence organization, it is structured as an armed force. The Wind, Forest, Fire, and Mountain Divisions are all constructed based on holy land militant standards, and there’s method in their dispatch or return to defend, leaving no room for vulnerability. Furthermore, the Dutian Sky Mirror is Cao Jinyu’s Dao sanctuary, and this Great Commander of the Royal Patrol hardly ever leaves his post, not since the last campaign against the Longyuan Blood Tower.”

“But Longyuan is in Zhongzhou, and given the Heavenly Patrol Divine Vessel and Cao Jinyu’s Escape Technique, he could muster aid within two hours at full force. Even then, Hanging Sky City is left with enough forces on guard; merely Cao Jinyu’s own bonded Royal Beast would make the city as secure as a bastion of gold, not to mention those retired elites from the four divisions and their deep-rooted power!”

“Therefore, we must cast a brick large enough to lure out Cao Jinyu, the jade, along with the Royal Patrol’s finest on a distant campaign, and then design everything in reverse!”

Tang Luo seemed unconcerned with Ji Xuanyuan’s incredulous tone and continued to supplement the plan, “The very purpose of the establishment of the Dutian Heavenly King Patrol is to locate the remnants of the Han Clan. What if, by chance, he were to discover a hidden and consolidated Minor Spiritual Realm housing the prime target of the Royal Patrol? Would the Great Commander not mobilize the elite forces to embark on an expedition with the swiftness of thunder that leaves no time to cover one’s ears!?”

“What are you planning to do!?”

Ji Xuanyuan, like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, bristled, smashing the chair beneath him in agitation, “Are you trying to prematurely provoke a war between the Three Realms Holy Land and our clan!?”

“What’s there to be so excited about, the Three Realms Holy Land are your enemies to begin with. Besides, a deliberately designed prelude to what could become an inferno of war–look more carefully at my annotations.”

Pointing with his index finger at the last section of the first page of the plan, Tang Luo continued, “Trading a consolidated Minor Spiritual Realm for the fall of Hanging Sky City and severing Cao Jinyu’s route to sainthood–is it worth it or not, that’s for you to decide.”

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Ji Xuanyuan felt the few sheets of paper in his hand as heavy as a thousand catties, the madness of the young man before him exceeding the imagination of the well-versed Great Commander of the Slaughter Immortal Army.

Beimang was already a land of chaos, but compared to Tang Luo, those deemed as demons seemed but small sorcerers before a great wizard.

Behind the ‘throwing a brick to attract jade’ and ‘luring the snake out of its hole’ lay a confrontation of strength comparable to that of top-tier sects, involving the use of a Spiritual Realm as the battlefield and at least a number of King Realm fighters to the death.

How fierce the battle would be, just the thought was enough to make one’s blood boil, yet this was merely a brick thrown out for the true plan!

Flipping directly past the first page of the plan, Ji Xuanyuan shed his previous disdain, eager to see just what significant plan this young man had crafted, daring to treat so many powerful beings as mere pawns at his disposal.