"She was outside, like a towering tree, while we were within, like a swarm of wood-boring worms. The great tree could easily crush the worms, yet if the worms gnawed away at its insides together, they could also make it suddenly snap and rot away!"
The more Li Qingyun spoke, the clearer and brighter this thought became, as though it were about to leap impatiently above the water's surface.
Divine fire flickered in Wan Nu Heaven's eyes as he urged, "Say it plainly. What do you intend to do?"
"Very simple!" Li Qingyun chuckled twice, slightly concealing a trace of embarrassment. "I wish to become relatives by marriage with your nine clans—to take daughters of the nine clans as concubines. That way, I can strengthen my Dao and more easily gnaw away at the power through which she influences Nine Sons Heaven!"
His words truly caught even Wan Nu Heaven off guard!
He had previously told Cheng Tangyin that he did not wish to take concubines, yet after opening that loophole with Wan Zhiruo, he now "opened his lion's jaws" and arrogantly demanded to marry the noble daughters of all nine clans!
Not co-wives, but concubines!
"That is your only request?" Wan Nu Heaven gave Li Qingyun a deep look.
To him, though the request was strange, it possessed no "power" at all and was not worth mentioning. Could this really hollow out the Heavenly Mother's sacred Dao?
After pondering briefly, Wan Nu Heaven agreed. "This matter is easy—merely a few women! But you can only disrupt the Heavenly Mother for half a month. Once she resumes her investment, Nine Sons Heaven will surely be turned upside down, with countless dead and wounded. Even the nine of us may be harvested early and devoured and annihilated by her!"
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