At this moment,
Liu Zhenshan felt nothing but unease.
If Shen Changchuan could keep his promise, remember this favor, and lend them a hand, then the troubles facing the Six Harmonies Sect would be solved as easily as a blade cutting through bamboo.
He would finally be able to cast off the burden on his shoulders and relax from then on.
But what if the other man was cold-hearted and faithless?
At the thought of that possibility,
Liu Zhenshan's heart rose into his throat.
"The commotion in the back mountain was so great that people both on and off the mountain must have seen it clearly!"
"Peng Zhiguang has always harbored ambitions of swallowing the four great sects whole. He must have planted spies within and around the Six Harmonies Sect to watch our every move."
"Once news of the sudden celestial changes in the back mountain and that overwhelmingly powerful aura reaches Chongyang Mountain, will it stir Peng Zhiguang's nerves? Will he think that our Six Harmonies Sect has secretly nurtured an Innate Grandmaster, prompting him to set his plans in motion ahead of time?"
This concern
was something he had only realized not long ago!
Liu Zhenshan had always understood why, over the past ten years, the Six Harmonies Sect had openly opposed Peng Zhiguang's scheme to merge the sects, yet had not suffered the fiercest suppression and machinations.
They had not ended up like the Cangwu Sect and Yuquan Sect, where the older generation in power had died or been injured in one "accident" after another, forcing the younger generation to take the helm. Their strength had been greatly damaged, and in the end, the two sects had changed their stance on the matter of the merger.
A great part of the reason
was that Peng Zhiguang