Chapter 883: Schemes
Meng Zhi nodded slightly.
It was not that he approved of the Yu family's character.
Their supposed refusal to seize things by trickery or force was only because that treasure had already become something in their pocket.
There was simply no need to risk being ridiculed by cultivators across the world, or to sell out the Yu family's reputation built over countless years, just to seize a treasure that could only be considered a long-term foundation for strengthening their juniors.
Cultivators had long lives in which to wait. Under the scouring of the river of time, every truth would slowly be buried.
With such a method of boiling a frog in warm water, one day, everyone in the world would come to believe that the Soul Banner had always belonged to the Yu family.
Rather than to the Rogue Cultivator who had once married a daughter of the Yu family.
The current Soul Banner was not yet worth the Yu family paying an exorbitant price to obtain, nor would they provide him with all the opportunities and resources he needed to become a Saint.
Meng Zhi understood this perfectly well.
If he wanted to survive, he first had to possess cultivation strong enough to defeat his master, Tu Shan Jun.
Second, he absolutely could not reveal that the supreme-grade Dao soldier Soul Banner could advance at will. Once he let that slip to the Yu family cultivators, he would only die faster.
Even using some Heavenly Dao oath, demonic heart oath, or great terror as a guarantee... would not preserve his life.
For this reason, Meng Zhi had pondered for a long time.
He had considered whether he could borrow the Yu family's strength to sever his master Tu Shan Jun's path to immortality.
Perhaps if he