Plotting the Artificer Command

The harvest had been great, and there would be even greater gains to come. Lin Qi smugly led his people back to Warm Jade Pavilion, while eagerly anticipating what compensation the families of those noble young masters would offer him. "Assassinating" an imperial prince in the street—such a charge could be grave or trivial, depending on whether Lin Qi, the victim, chose to pursue it. Just think: would they really have the nerve to offer too little in hush money to a dignified prince of the Blood Qin Empire?

Thus, Lin Qi was in an excellent mood. He did not return to the Sand Family residence either. After all, publicly, he merely had a bit of friendship with Sha Xinyue. A prince of the Blood Qin Empire could hardly stay lodged in another prince's residence all day long, could he?

Lin Qi had already decided to undertake major construction, building an entirely new princely estate atop the ruins of the former Warm Fragrance Pavilion. In the future, this estate would become the main foothold of Lin Qi's "direct clansmen" within the Blood Qin Empire. Through the Sand Family's intelligence network, Lin Qi had already relayed the news here to the Tiger Clan's main family.

In roughly seven or eight months, a pack of Tiger Clan direct descendants, fierce as wolves and tigers, would stride openly into Twin Sun Red Dragon City. More Tiger Clan personnel would head to the fiefs of the three provinces under Lin Qi's name, gradually taking them over.

Lin Qi was beginning to pity Ying Zheng. The fellow had merely wanted some hostages in hand, but did that count as inviting wolves into the house? What he had brought in was not a pack of wolves, but a pack of violent, powerful, wild and unruly tigers!