"Speaking of which, Senior Brother bowed deeply to Kong Shao and You Xian. 'I ask you two elders to look after Brother Xu, for Little Qin's sake.'"
Xu Yi silently approved. To be the first among the Black Lotus Cult beneath its elders, Senior Brother was no ordinary man. Just look at how beautifully he'd put it.
He'd given up nothing, yet had already won both sides over.
Kong Shao and You Xian readily agreed.
The deal was now settled. Xu Yi ordered another dozen baskets of buns. This time, even Kong Shao, who'd been abstaining from food for days, got excited, grabbed some buns, and wolfed them down.
Senior Brother left first, but returned half an hour later. He'd gone to collect the one unusual talisman and two rare talismans promised by the presiding elder.
Now, one unusual talisman and six rare talismans had been gathered in Xu Yi's hands.
Xu Yi agreed on a time to act with the two men, then left.
They hadn't used any Heart Oaths or Blood Oaths to bind one another; they were relying entirely on verbal promises.
As the saying went, it wasn't that Kong Shao and the others trusted Xu Yi's word. They trusted his intelligence.
As long as Xu Yi hadn't gone mad, he wouldn't dare play tricks in this matter. If anything went wrong, he'd face not only Kong Shao and You Xian's frenzied retaliation, but the Black Lotus Cult's blazing wrath.
After parting from Senior Brother and the other two, Xu Yi returned to Cangyou Peak. Ignoring the trio who were bickering as they tried to cozy up to him, he went straight into his cave abode.
He took out the seven newly acquired rare talismans and three Teleportation Talismans. Like a man admiring his new bride, he