"What plan?" Xiao Chen asked.
"If I reveal my identity, Hei Shitian and the others will never dare come. But if it thinks I am merely a Great Emperor, then..."
The Snake Ancestor roughly explained the plan, and Xiao Chen nodded repeatedly.
Not long after.
Outside the gates of Black Cloud City.
Within an ancient forest.
"Brother, can I ask you something?" A kind-looking young man stopped an honest-looking middle-aged man who had just left the city and said with a smile.
"What do you want? I don't know you. Let go of me!"
The honest middle-aged man was extremely alert. He immediately tried to shove the young man away, only to find that although the other party did not look particularly tall or muscular, his body was incredibly solid. The man could not budge him at all, and shock appeared on his face.
"Hehe, brother, don't be nervous. I'm not a bad person. Take this silver!"
The kind young man smiled as he pulled a white cloth pouch from his robes and stuffed it into the middle-aged man's hand.
The man accepted the pouch half-believingly, then opened it and saw two large, gleaming silver ingots inside.
Judging by the weight, there had to be at least twenty taels.
The man's eyes instantly lit up. His attitude softened considerably as he carefully tucked the cloth pouch into his robes. "What do you want to ask? Go ahead!"
"Did a great battle take place here not long ago?"
"That's right. Luckily, there was a Great Emperor in the city. Otherwise, we would surely have all perished here!"
"A... Great Emperor? Uncle, are you sure? Was it a Quasi-Emperor or a Great Emperor?" The Black Dragon Clan youth's pupils contracted, and even his voice trembled.
There was only one word of difference