"Night Emperor truly lives up to her name. She guessed my intentions at a glance. As long as we spread the Six Paths Divine Sword, those old remnants of the Sacred Dao Sect who sit securely atop the mountain will certainly come swarming. Granted, the old schemers who plotted against the Linye Kingdom back then have long since left their lives to fate, but which of these sects did not inherit the Sacred Dao Sect's legacy? Now that they are ambitious and have set their sights here, with the Six Paths Divine Sword and the treasures of the One Heaven Cycle added in, heh heh... it'll be enough to make them drool three feet." Mu Zhongping let out a sinister laugh, as if everyone did not already know he was plotting against them.
Yet he was going to scheme against others, and these remnants of the Sacred Dao Sect just happened to be targets certain to take the bait. It truly was an ironic affair.
"Why should we? We do the dirty work, and then won't these righteous sects come after us?" I asked with a frown.
"Boy Xia, you understand the principle that wealth and honor are found in danger. Why would I grant you such a tremendous favor? I could have given you nothing at all, couldn't I?" Mu Zhongping looked as though I had asked far too many questions.
I had been about to argue against this threat. After all, the treasures of the One Heaven Cycle should belong to Night Emperor Zi Qingyun of the Linye Kingdom, so how had they ended up belonging to him instead? But soon, a large group of Eighth Tribulation Ghost Immortals drifted in behind Mu Zhongping, at least twenty or thirty of them. That number alone was terrifying. With all