Achieving Transcendence Through Corpse Burning
Chapter 1297

Caught Between Advance and Retreat

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"Do you have a better idea?" Qin He turned and asked.

Da Yajin immediately clutched his head again and wailed, "We're screwed! We've stumbled into huge trouble!"

"You picked it, idol!" Qin He crossed his arms over his chest, pondering countermeasures as well.

The corpse-burning ground affair was about to fall through, and the five spirit stones he had loaned out had yet to be recovered. He could not just swallow this loss.

There was no way they could get past Shen Gonglan.

He had informed Shen Gongjin to kill someone, yet Shen Gongjin had croaked. Da Yajin would undoubtedly be the first suspect.

To Shen Gonglan, Da Yajin was merely a slightly larger ant. Once suspicion fell upon him, evidence was unnecessary. Killing him outright would count as leniency; torturing him with every conceivable method and interrogating him under a hundred cruel punishments was the normal procedure.

That would be worse than death.

So, killing Shen Gonglan was the simplest and most direct solution, with the fewest future troubles.

That old bastard had stolen Da Yajin's credit for the robbery. He must have done it in secret and would not be stupid enough to blab about it everywhere.

Cut it off at the root with him, clean and neat.

The problem was that the old bastard would not be easy to deal with. They might well end up on the losing side.

A Divine Bridge Realm expert flew about in the sky while he ran along the ground. It was a natural, dimension-crushing disadvantage.

If he did not take out... Shen Gonglan, then silencing everyone was the only option.

Qin He looked at Da Yajin squatting on the ground, thinking that if he slaughtered Da Yajin, Liu Shan, and Ge Yanbing together, then returned to the city and slaughtered

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