Kill the Enemy with the Enemy's Blade

"Yes!" Bi Xuanji said. "The Heavenly Spirit Elders are currently imprisoned in the imperial prison, but you surely know that being thrown into the imperial prison does not mean it is over. In Current Majesty's past dealings, most people thrown into the imperial prison were eventually released—Qin Fangweng, for instance, and Ding Jiye..."

There was a faint note of mockery in her voice.

Lin Su smiled. "Of all the examples you could have chosen, you had to name Qin Fangweng and Ding Jiye... Did either of them ultimately escape the imperial prison?"

Bi Xuanji's eyes suddenly lit up. She had named Qin Fangweng and Ding Jiye because both had been locked in the imperial prison and later released by imperial decree, making them highly persuasive proof that the imperial prison did not mean the end. But Lin Su's counterquestion was also true. Both men had been killed by him at the gates of the imperial prison. He had also used ironclad facts to tell her that the imperial prison meant the end.

Lin Su's meaning was therefore clear: he intended to strike at the Heavenly Spirit Elders!

Bi Xuanji asked directly, "You intend to make a move?"

"Not me!"

Bi Xuanji was confused again. "Not you... what do you mean?"

"What I mean is... those two must die! Their hands are stained with the blood of our Dark Fragrance! But I will not be the one to do it. Someone else will!"

"There is a very interesting Saintess who thinks herself very clever, yet she is forever doomed to be a chess piece. She is always plotting to kill me. I ought to let her see just how treacherous this world can be!"

Lin Su set down his teacup and rose to his feet...

Bi Xuanji's heart was a tangled