"To be precise, I was the one who sent Zhao Yi to assassinate Zhao Wenjing."
"What?"
"You sent him?"
Liu Lang and Chu Xiudao exchanged a glance, both somewhat surprised.
"Why?"
"Didn't you say earlier-"
"Oh, I understand."
"No wonder you were so certain Zhao Yi would come to kill him. You were the one who sent him."
"But that doesn't make sense. Why would he listen to you?"
"It's a long story-"
Chen Yi briefly recounted his meeting with Zhao Yi, then smiled. "I thought he would at least hesitate. I never expected him to act so decisively."
After listening, Liu Lang sighed in admiration. "Boss, only you could have pulled this off. Anyone else would never have fooled him."
Chu Xiudao wholeheartedly agreed and nodded. "Chen Kid, with your supreme cultivation base, anyone would assume you preferred to charge straight through everything."
"Who would have thought-"
He paused, then pointed at the study. "But I don't understand. Why did you want to kill him?"
"Zhao Wenjing only recently arrived in Shuzhou. Had he already offended the Xiao Family?"
Chen Yi murmured his assent. "The Jizhou Trading Company was behind him."
Chu Xiudao looked slightly puzzled. "The Jizhou Trading Company? What's that?"
Understanding dawned on Liu Lang, who explained, "Master, you've spent years wandering the martial world. It's only natural you wouldn't know."
"The Jizhou Trading Company is very secretive and immensely powerful. Even the Bright Moon Tower is under its control behind the scenes."
"The Bright Moon Tower?"
"The Jizhou Trading Company is behind the Bright Moon Tower?"
Chu Xiudao frowned slightly. "That does make things somewhat troublesome."
Hearing the gravity in his voice, Chen Yi couldn't help asking, "Senior, do you know some secrets about the Bright Moon Tower?"
Chu Xiudao nodded. "I do know a thing