Chapter Fourteen: The Sect Leader's Carriage
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While the two sides haggled, Wang Yufu repeatedly seemed to speak for Zheng Qing, but was actually helping Tang Changsheng.
Now the two exchanged a glance and burst out laughing. Each found the other agreeable enough, someone after his own heart.
"Since you know Cloudtail Mountain is dangerous, sir, you must know a fair amount about it. Would you enlighten me?" Tang Changsheng asked solemnly.
Wang Yufu answered without ceremony. "That place is extremely dangerous. Only after meeting you, my lord, did I become twenty percent confident."
"What were your chances before?" Tang Changsheng asked curiously.
"Ten percent. Because I was going!" Wang Yufu said without a trace of modesty.
Tang Changsheng smiled without speaking and stroked his chin. If someone worked out the odds after the fact, my chances of passing the Red Trial and infiltrating the Black Rock Mountains probably wouldn't have been more than ten percent...
But people shaped events through their actions. How could everything be calculated by probability?
As if he saw Tang Changsheng's skepticism, Wang Yufu said, "My lord, do you know the powers around Cloudtail Mountain?
"Cloudtail Mountain stands on newly formed land, also called the Desolate Land. Powerful demons occupied it from the start. And that's not even counting the hundreds of thousands of Desolate Folk still living there..."
The region around Cloudtail Mountain was much like the Southern Borderlands. Both had been reshaped when Wuman World merged into the Eastern Glory World, and like the Canglan Sea, both held many remnants of Wuman World.
To its north lived the so-called Hundred Barbarian Remnants, descendants of ancient peoples absorbed into this world. They came in countless strange forms, but all had lost their civilizations and become savage and ferocious.
Cloudtail Mountain lay amid all