A Person Worth Befriending

With that in mind, Sikong Jing asked again, "Brother Chou, you seem to have trusted me all along?"

From letting him sort through his true qi, to swallowing the antidote without even blinking, to now asking him for help...

Had Chou Zhan never suspected that he might have ulterior motives?

After all, at every step, Sikong Jing could have killed him at any moment. Even while treating his poison, Chou Zhan had not known who he was.

"I was already doomed to die. I had no other choice but to gamble."

Chou Zhan answered in a low voice, faint helplessness beneath his coldness. Then he said, "For a healer, I could only gamble on Gongyang Ying of the Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce. Now, I can only gamble on Brother Sikong, who bears a grudge against the three great academies."

Sikong Jing fell silent at those words. Chou Zhan could not trust any healer or expert within War Martial City.

So he could only gamble on Gongyang Ying of the Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce, who had no negative rumors surrounding her. Only within the Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce could his personal safety be guaranteed; otherwise, he might be assassinated at any time by those who had dispatched the Moon Swallowing Beast.

He had no way of knowing whether pursuers were on his trail.

Nor could he know whether War Martial City's healers had already been ordered to kill him.

He had been deeply poisoned before. He truly had no other choice.

And now, he was gambling on Sikong Jing, an enemy of the three great academies—gambling that the two of them could help each other.

Thinking of this, Sikong Jing sighed inwardly.

Though solitary, Chou Zhan was an exceptionally intelligent and courageous man, and immensely steadfast as well.