As the saying goes, trying to steal a chicken only to end up losing the rice used as bait. Qin Tai was currently in that exact predicament. He originally intended to bamboozle Bai Yang and the others, yet somehow he had unwittingly been led astray. From his perspective, while the goal of tricking Bai Yang's group seemed to have been achieved, he had suffered a net loss in the process. This left him feeling utterly disgusted, as if he had swallowed a dead child.
Still, the gifts he handed out didn't pose much of a problem for him. They were merely eighth-grade items that didn't match his own strength—insipid to consume and a pity to discard. Taking them out now to cloud the minds of Bai Yang and the others wasn't a bad idea either.
He figured that such a tiny loss was negligible. The items he gave away had been acquired in the outer domains anyway, so he didn't feel any heartache over them. Conversely, once he pacified Bai Yang and the others and ultimately induced them to follow his lead wholeheartedly, the benefits would eventually be recouped.
No one runs a losing business. He had his eyes on the "potential" possessed by Bai Yang and the group. As long as he played them well, the rewards would be massive.
While Qin Tai was distributing welcome gifts to Bai Xiao Jing and the others, Jiang Nan covertly transmitted his voice to Bai Yang.
"Brother Bai, I've heard of this Qin Tai. He's from the same era as my grandfather and the others. Back on Tianyuan Star, there used to be a Great Jin Dynasty, and its ruler seemed to be named Qin Tai. During a war between two nations, the Great Jin Dynasty was destroyed, and ruler Qin Tai