"No!"
Though An Jing had great confidence in his idea, Chenyinzi dismissed it without a second thought. "What nonsense are you talking about?"
"Why not, Grandmaster? I think this idea of mine is very effective!"
An Jing was extremely confident in his plan. "If I pretended to become a mole, neither side would surely be able to refuse me. That way..."
[Who would believe that?]
Even Ming Guangchen was speechless. An Jing's intellect could indeed be trusted, but usually only in battle and strategic decision-making. At times like this, what he displayed was simply world-shocking wisdom—never mind whether it was wisdom or not, the question was whether it was shocking enough. [Indeed, if you truly wished to defect, neither side would refuse you. Even the Taiming Sect, which is currently single-mindedly bent on wiping you out, would immediately send a Heavenly Monarch to bring you back.]
[But here's the problem, An Jing. Do you think you'd be sincerely defecting? Do you think others can't see what you're up to? Don't treat everyone else like fools!]
An Jing said, "I think I would be!"
Ming Guangchen replied, [Everyone else thinks you wouldn't.]
"Then we won't deceive the Taiming Sect."
An Jing remained quite optimistic. "I think Da Chen and the Tianyi Demonic Sect would be very willing to be deceived by me. Especially since I have holdings in Da Chen—I could say that I don't think the sect's prospects look too good, and that I want to return to Da Chen for a while to weather the storm. Da Chen would definitely send people to escort me back, wouldn't they? Then wouldn't we be able to figure things out?"
"Da Chen isn't the issue at all. Your master's relationship with Da Chen was unclear from the very beginning, and we never