Will This Boy Reach the Summit of the Central Plains?

Yao Lao, who had been watching from the side, suddenly asked, "Nalan Ye has a good relationship with Burning Flame Valley?"

Xiao Yan froze for a moment. "More or less. Tang Zhen's daughter, Tang Huo'er, is Nalan Ye's sworn sister—they performed the rites of brotherhood. Though the ceremony was rather rushed, and Tang Zhen did not seem to take it too seriously."

"Then joining forces with Burning Flame Valley was probably his idea too?"

After asking, Yao Lao saw Xiao Yan nod and was rendered speechless. So that was indeed the case. He had felt that teaming up with Burning Flame Valley did not seem like Xiao Yan's style. If this disciple of his had come to save him, the most likely scenario would have been for him to charge in alone, roaring all the way...

At most, he would have acted alongside Gu Ling.

Dragging in a Burning Flame Valley that had nothing to do with this matter to save him—that was much more like my style.

Yao Lao had spent many years in the Gamma Empire and had only been captured by the Hall of Souls during the Nalan Empire era. Thus, he had witnessed my methods of forming alliances and playing the various powers against one another, of turning clouds into rain with a flip of my hand.

"Ah, I once thought this was merely a minor path, unfit for the grand stage. Only today do I understand the power of the Art of Diplomacy!"

Yao Lao sighed toward the heavens. Imprisoned within the West Underworld Earth Hall, he had been utterly helpless, yet the moment I acted, I had rescued him with ease. How could he not admire me? How could he still dare to underestimate me?

One Hall, One Tower, Two Sects, Three Valleys, Four