Demon Heaven Trading Company headquarters.
Sima's cave abode.
Yuan Zhou came to visit.
In the cave abode's main hall.
The two sat facing each other. Sima Xiangheng asked, "Fellow Daoist Yuan, what brings you here?"
"Lord Rakshasa has given orders. There's no need to keep hiding our heads and showing our tails like this.
"Find a way to make the Three Houses go to war in earnest."
"Well..."
Sima Xiangheng hesitated.
Some of the attempts to frame the Xu Household had been their doing.
Unfortunately, none had worked.
Moreover, their repeated use of demonic cultivators to strike had
made the Mysterious Moon Sect increasingly hostile.
The Xu Household had not been dragged in. Instead, the Demon Heaven Trading Company and the Mysterious Moon Sect were gradually showing signs of going to war.
"The Xu Household acts meticulously, without letting a single drop leak through. You've seen the results of our previous efforts yourself, Fellow Daoist Yuan.
"There's little hope of dragging them in this way."
"Then we'll try something else," Yuan Zhou said. "Contact the Golden Sun Merchant Guild and stir up the people within Demon Heaven.
"Get them to wage open war against the Mysterious Moon Sect."
"Stirring them up is easy. Plenty of people are unhappy with the Mysterious Moon Sect, after all. But actually starting a war requires a spark."
"That's simple. Kill someone important from the Mysterious Moon Sect."
"Who?"
"Zhang Xuanzhi."
"He certainly carries enough weight, but killing him won't be easy. Very few at the Golden Core Stage are stronger than him.
"They might wound him, but they can't kill him.
"Unless a Nascent Soul cultivator acts personally."
"Which is why I'll do it," Yuan Zhou said with a faint smile.
"Have you thought this through, Fellow Daoist Yuan? You'd have nine chances of