"As long as we can draw out the sect master of the Hehuan Sect and kill him, or pull off a plum tree withering in place of the peach, with you becoming the sect master of the Hehuan Sect...
"When the time comes, we'll attack the heart as the highest strategy. There won't be any need for so much trouble, nor any need to force people into submission."
Qin Jiuge had come here, now and today, for himself in the truest sense, and merely to make up for the deficits in his body. He had not come to subdue a power.
What he needed was only a comparatively suitable tool. As long as the tool was suitable enough, Qin Jiuge was naturally willing to pay some capital.
Wasn't there an old saying that put it well?
If you couldn't bear to part with the child, you couldn't trap the wolf.
Hearing Qin Jiuge's words, Xianggu was already frightened until sweat drenched her entire body at this very moment.
She wiped her forehead, and her hand came away full of dense sweat, showing just how badly the scene just now had frightened her.
To say she had not been scared witless was absolutely impossible.
And in Xianggu's eyes there was only the relief of one who had received a great pardon. At this moment, she did not dare blame Qin Jiuge in the slightest.
She did not have that qualification.
"Many thanks, Senior. Many thanks, Senior."
Xianggu could only thank him over and over again.
Qin Jiuge found it annoying, but he could understand it. When one's life was firmly controlled by another person and then subjected to a fatal threat, one's reaction should be more or less the same as Xianggu's before him.
Xianggu had merely done what any normal