The Ghost Lord of Jin You gave a cold hum, though he did not refute it. The Nine-Eyed Devil Owl had originally been a helper he hired, yet the creature had struck a deal with Lu Xiaotian without a sound or stir. Although up to that point the Nine-Eyed Devil Owl had not done anything detrimental to his interests and had helped out considerably along the way, that was under the condition that no conflict had arisen. Once a conflict broke out, the slightest lapse in attention would make the Nine-Eyed Devil Owl's betrayal almost fatal.
This time on the trip to the Boundary Sky Stone, the Ghost Lord of Jin You had considered his preparations foolproof. Although there had been risks along the way, things were generally within a controllable range. Even though the matter had not resulted in irredeemable consequences, for the Ghost Lord of Jin You, or rather for any Mahayana cultivator, it was hard to accept how something originally within one's control could undergo such a massive reversal.
Faced with the Four-Eyed Golden Crow fanning the flames and stirring up trouble on the side, the Ghost Lord of Jin You neither felt angry nor had any intention of falling out over it at the moment. Naturally, he dared even less to court trouble with this severed arm of Lu Xiaotian. Right now he was practically a solitary ghost, and even if he felt some displeasure, he could only bottle it up.
"I still have matters to attend to and will not stay here long. Pill King Lu, Fellow Daoist Wuming, Brother Jinhao, Fellow Daoist Mu, take care." The Nine-Eyed Devil Owl was entangled with Lu Xiaotian and could no longer be relied upon. If the Ghost Lord of Jin You remained here alone, he would face