Xu Yi nodded. "Time is precious. The bleeding from your wounds may have stopped, but you both look so miserable that even I can't bear to watch. Hurry up and give me an explanation, and I'll give you both an answer in return."
The round-faced man in purple said, "I had only gotten halfway through what I was saying. The way to turn this situation around lies entirely in these three tokens."
"Ah, I get it!"
The square-faced man in purple suddenly let out a strange cry and pointed at the round-faced man. "Old Zhao, you want Senior to impersonate that bastard surnamed Wang!"
The round-faced man in purple smiled faintly. "Exactly. What, Old Cao? You think this plan won't work?"
At that moment, he felt a sincere surge of pride, greatly relieved that he had found a way out of this fatal predicament.
To be sure, his current situation was already extremely dangerous. Even if fortune smiled on him and he escaped the clutches of this green-robed bandit, how would he explain himself when he returned to the Donghua Immortal Sect?
For all that the bastard surnamed Wang was a piece of trash, he had still been the leader of this expedition. He had died for no reason, while the two of them had survived. There was no way the sect would accept that without an explanation.
And that worry only came into play after every other possibility had been exhausted. The immediate danger was the predicament they were in now.
Unless they offered this green-robed bandit an enormous reward, they could never persuade him. But if they offered him an enormous reward, it was all too easy to imagine him killing them to keep them quiet after he had gotten what he wanted.
His plan, however, would turn