In a courtyard within Haiyu City, Shi Yuanmin sat before his desk, leisurely flipping through a book in his hands.
Suddenly, Shi Yuanmin's expression shifted slightly. He turned to look toward a corner of the study, where a figure had appeared.
"Sit!" Shi Yuanmin looked at the visitor and gestured with his right hand.
"It was fortunate that none of us rushed to act this time. We narrowly escaped a calamity," Tan Mingxiang said in a low voice.
Min Yanlu had not truly left Haiyu City. Instead, he had remained to watch everything unfold within the city. All those Joint Aperture Realm cultivators who had acted in Haiyu City back then had now perished, their bodies and souls scattered.
Before a Mountain Sea Realm expert, the strength of the Joint Aperture Realm was not worth mentioning, just as the Joint Aperture Realm viewed the Aperture Refining Realm.
"We sided with the sea monsters, but that did not mean we wanted the Thousand Feathers Alliance to truly suffer a major setback. If Haiyu City really fell, it would bring us no benefit whatsoever," Shi Yuanmin said, shaking his head.
Their goal had always been profit. Whichever side offered greater benefits, they would side with that side. And now, the things offered by the sea monsters were undoubtedly more alluring.
"What should we do next?" Tan Mingxiang asked quietly.
"Watch how things unfold. For the time being, do not make any rash moves," Shi Yuanmin said after some thought.
No one knew what Min Yanlu, this Mountain Sea Realm powerhouse, was truly thinking at the moment.
When fending off external enemies and settling internal troubles, where did the priority lie now? Was it resisting the outsiders, or decisively resolving the internal problems first? No one knew what Min Yanlu intended.
To be