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The unlucky fellow in the story whose Wine Worm had been taken away was inexperienced and young, knowing nothing at all. A bit of smooth talk was enough to make him give in to everything. He had been easy to manipulate.

But Meng Zhao was a shrewd old hand, deeply calculating, exceptionally intelligent, and ruthless and masterful in his methods. Taking the Eclosion Worm from his hands would be exceedingly difficult. Gu Sinan simply could not apply the wandering Daoist's methods from that story to Meng Zhao.

Setting everything else aside, the fact that this worm had been exchanged for three treasures, with Heaven Swallowing Dao Child's favor thrown in as well, and was something coveted by that demonic prodigy, already proved that it was no ordinary item. Meng Zhao would not readily hand it over to anyone else.

"That's true. Meng Zhao is far too clever. If you try to scheme against him, I'm afraid he'll scheme against you instead.

"But if you truly had some plan, wouldn't it have been better to say nothing? Why did you have to bring up the concept of the Human-Form Worm and make him value the Eclosion Worm even more? Wasn't that rather superfluous?"

Yun Fei still could not quite understand Gu Sinan's actions. Either he should say nothing and secretly plot for the worm, or he should lay everything openly on the table. That would be better than such petty, furtive maneuvering.

But Gu Sinan's thoughts clearly ran a level deeper than his. With a somewhat helpless sigh, he said,

"There are two reasons. First, I feared that Meng Zhao, young and hot-blooded as he is, might destroy it before figuring out the Eclosion Worm's origins. That would truly be a waste of Heaven's gifts. That was why I mentioned the