Dark Scheme

Situ Yao probed, "You've been so vague about this. You dismissed everyone and called me here alone—you didn't bring me here just to shoot the breeze, did you?"

Niu Youdao said, "Of course not. I wanted to discuss the next stage of the plan with Sect Master Situ and hear your wise counsel."

Situ Yao hurriedly waved his hands. "Don't discuss it with me. I really have no grasp of the way you do things, and I have no brilliant insights to offer. I think you already have a plan in mind, so I'd better listen to you. I'm all ears."

Niu Youdao said, "Since Sect Master Situ is being so modest, I won't stand on ceremony. My next step is to expose our whereabouts and have the forces of the various nations join hands to encircle and suppress us. What do you think?"

"What?" Situ Yao swiftly looked around. "Brother, that joke is a little too much. You can't go looking for trouble like that."

Niu Youdao said, "I'm not looking for trouble. I'm resolving it. I need to stop the various nations from searching for Spirit Seeds. What we've done to them, along with the vast number of Spirit Seeds we seized, is enough to lure them here."

Situ Yao could not keep up with his train of thought and was thoroughly baffled. "Why?"

Niu Youdao said, "The reason is simple. We've already seized the Spirit Seeds of four factions. Added to what these overseas people already had, the Spirit Seeds gathered in our hands should now exceed those of any nation. We already hold the advantage, so we cannot let the various nations continue collecting them. If the numbers in their hands keep growing, then once one faction swallows another whole, our numerical advantage in Spirit Seeds