Guessing Right, Going to the Far North

"So even if I hadn't come over in the beginning, you would still have told someone about this place and tried to recruit powerful people, right?

If I guessed correctly, your original plan was to recruit those powerful people, then tell them about this place. They would come help, and once they obtained benefits, they would cooperate with you as well.

If I came, then you would first mine this Ice Vein with me, and afterward take this Ten Thousand Year Mystic Ice Marrow to recruit those powerful people?

So whether or not I had a plan, you would still more or less recruit those powerful people. But who are they? Let me guess—they wouldn't happen to be powerful Soul Beasts, would they?

After all, I've never heard of anyone living in the Far North. Only Soul Beasts live there, so the people you want to recruit must be powerful Soul Beasts, right?"

What Jing Hongchen said indeed made perfect sense. There were hardly any human powerhouses in the Far North. That place was not fit for human habitation at all, so there would naturally be no human powerhouses there, nor would any human powerhouses choose to live in seclusion there.

So he had guessed correctly. Xiao Changge was going to recruit the Ice and Snow Emperors among the Three Heavenly Kings of the Far North.

The original plan was more or less what Jing Hongchen had described.

"You'll know once we get there. It isn't convenient to talk about it yet. Anyway, you'll find out then. What we need to do now is quickly gather the supplies, leave, and head for the Far North. If you want to leave, that's up to you."

"Big brother, come on. Do you think I'm that kind of person? You promised me benefits—would