Concerns and Probing

"Let's gather some information first."

Hu Jiu Jiu hesitated for a moment before answering.

Her reasoning was simple.

First, they needed to understand the current situation.

For instance, whether Hu Qi Qi was alive and well.

And whether the Lin Family viewed Hu Qi Qi favorably or poorly.

The former would determine whether the Nine-tailed Fox Clan needed to go to war with the Lin Clan, while the latter would determine the price the Nine-tailed Fox Clan would have to pay to ransom her.

In other words—

If Hu Qi Qi was already dead, leaving aside whether she and Lu Yuan would even have grounds for negotiation with the Lin Clan, they probably could not even guarantee their own safety. The Lin Clan had developed to its current scale, so it naturally had plenty of respectable methods at its disposal—but that did not mean it lacked underhanded ones. She would not regard the Lin Clan as a foolish family without a single intelligent person. After all, if everyone in the Lin Family were fools, the family could never have developed safely to its current size. Since she knew full well that the Lin Family was not made up of good people, she could not assume they would play by the rules.

She was more than eighty percent certain of her prediction.

If Hu Qi Qi was already dead—

And they directly delivered a visiting card—

Then what awaited them would definitely not be Hu Qi Qi's corpse, handed over for them to bring home and bury. Instead, the Lin Family's experts would emerge in full force, ensuring that they died without even seeing Hu Qi Qi's face.

Do not rush to question it.

Because the cultivation world was just that dark.

It could be a place filled with light.

But