He Ping and Qi Wugou spoke in secret for an entire night.
He told Qi Wugou quite a bit of important intelligence, including the Mud Sect's secrets and the revival of the Sibi Sect Master.
Both were momentous events that had shaken the cultivation world. Simply knowing of them was enough to make Qi Wugou more wary of the Mud Sect, rather than truly becoming a "puppet" under its control.
However, this Eastern Heaven Rebel King was originally an outstanding man among men, one of the future Eight Cultivators of Wind and Cloud. The Mud Sect indeed wanted to make use of him, but Qi Wugou, in turn, was also using the Mud Sect.
This distrust had planted the 'cause' from the very beginning. In the future, it would sprout, bloom, and bear fruit, nurturing this 'effect'.
This was a scheme to sow discord. He Ping fed Qi Wugou this intelligence precisely to plant a crack of "distrust" toward the Mud Sect in his heart ahead of time.
"I'm not afraid of matters in the Outer Sea. No matter how formidable Tantai Tanmie is, bringing an army of a million across the sea would be a massive mobilization, a grand campaign. So long as we rely on the Five Paths and Eight Wastelands for defense, the Great Offering Dynasty's so-called restoration and revival will be nothing but a joke."
The "Eastern Heaven Rebel King," Qi Wugou, was exceedingly confident. He Ping could vouch for this: among the Eight Cultivators of Wind and Cloud, Qi Wugou was hailed as the foremost commander. If it came to deploying troops and waging war, even Tantai Tanmie might not surpass him.
Of course, Tantai Tanmie was already a Manifest Divinity expert. In war, he might well resort to tricks beyond the battlefield. If Qi