Seemingly a little unhappy, Ancestor Jin Xi lounged casually on a rattan chair, her exquisite figure fully displayed. A jar of wine appeared in her jade-like hand. She tilted it slightly, and the liquor flowed past her red lips, her chest rising and falling faintly as it gurgled down into her stomach.
At this moment, she was behaving very unladylike.
With only her maid Long Xuan here, she was not worried about damaging her image.
"Master, do you intend to use this person as a chess piece to make some arrangements in Qingshui Commandery and use the opportunity to open a breach in the Chu Kingdom?" Long Xuan's brows twitched, light flickering in her eyes as though she were contemplating the plans ahead.
Since coming from the Central Continent to the Chu Kingdom, her master's situation had not been good. Some Golden Core Elders of the Danyang Sect had been excluding and suppressing her.
Even certain cultivator families in Qingshui Commandery were half-hearted toward her, each harboring their own schemes.
Using Lu Xuanji as a chess piece and the Lu Clan as a breakthrough point could indeed open up the situation somewhat.
"A chess piece?"
Ancestor Jin Xi's tone was somewhat ethereal and profound. "He is not my chess piece. He is merely one of my hopes."
"Hope?"
Long Xuan frowned and thought carefully before saying, "He does not seem to possess anything extraordinary."
"Some things, even I do not know. In the future, he may become an unrivaled powerhouse, standing at the pinnacle of the world. Or he may remain ordinary and vanish into the common crowd."
Ancestor Jin Xi rose to her feet and looked into the distance, her back facing Long Xuan. "I am merely making an investment. Success would naturally be wonderful, but failure would not