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Sima Pan told Su Xin to hand over the Heavenly Dao Stone and go to the Zheng Sword Alliance to apologize to Di Yunfei, startling the other Divine Palace Realm martial artists who had come with him.
They remembered that Di Yunfei had merely told Sima Pan to find Su Xin. As long as Su Xin did not make any excessive demands, he was to let Su Xin exchange the Heavenly Dao Stone for something of equal value.
Yet now Sima Pan was saying this. What exactly was he trying to do?
Sima Pan's intentions were actually very simple. He merely wanted to secure a bright future for himself and become Di Yunfei's true confidant.
All Di Yunfei wanted was to obtain the Heavenly Dao Stone as quickly as possible so he could give it to the eldest young lady of the Lu Family as a gift.
But Sima Pan wanted to perform even better and win the position of Di Yunfei's foremost confidant.
Simply carrying out Di Yunfei's orders was not enough for Sima Pan.
He had heard that Su Xin and his young master had once borne a considerable grudge against each other. If he could make Su Xin hand over the Heavenly Dao Stone and bring him back to the Zheng Sword Alliance to plead guilty before Di Yunfei, his merit would be immense. Who would still be qualified to compete with him for that position afterward?
Su Xin did not know what Sima Pan was thinking at the moment. If he did, he would surely laugh at Di Yunfei for being a poor judge of character.
The people most likely to ruin things in this world were not fools, but those