Chapter 880
"I understand."
"Mutual benefit."
"Indeed."
"But I don't think this is a worthwhile deal."
"I'm giving too much and gaining too little."
Wiping his mouth, Meng Zhi slowly rose to his feet. He cupped his hands toward everyone and said, "If Senior has nothing else, I must return to consolidate my cultivation. I will not linger long in Senior's Daoist grounds."
Yu Baizhong looked at Meng Zhi and chuckled. "Young man, you have courage."
"However, Yu Haofeng has already groomed his daughter to replace you. If you die, they will not avenge you at all."
Feeling that terrifying divine sense lock onto him,
Meng Zhi's heart sank.
When words failed, they resorted to force. That truly was a cultivator's usual style.
Whether righteous or demonic, it made no difference.
"Besides, perhaps this was what they wanted to see from the start."
Yu Baizhong said blandly, "Nephew Meng, do you still not understand? Even your father-in-law made preparations long ago. You are utterly insignificant, and have even become a burden."
"If you wish to profit, if you wish to keep living,"
"Then you can only enter my sect."
"Because I do not wish to see Yu Hao Xuan gain complete control of the Soul Banner."
Yu Baizhong lifted his eyelids.
He looked down at Meng Zhi.
Meng Zhi laughed. "My father-in-law may not avenge me. No—not may. He absolutely will not. I understand him. A man as shrewd as he is, how could he waste time and effort on someone already dead? Perhaps he would immediately have my wife remarry."
Yu Baizhong continued looking at Meng Zhi.
He seemed not to have expected Meng Zhi to see things so clearly.
He was also waiting for Meng Zhi's next response.
"But... someone will."
"Who?"
"My master."
Meng Zhi sighed.
"If