"Have you thought it through? I asked the True Lord personally, you know. As long as you agree, the True Lord absolutely won't go back on their word."
Li Huixi's eyes curved into crescents as she pressed him for an answer.
Zhang Yuan's gaze was firm as he said bluntly, "I will have my revenge. But if the Eastern Bian Li Clan's True Lord is willing to bring Chen Xinqiao back, I can kill fewer people."
"Kill fewer people?" Li Huixi asked.
Zhang Yuan considered it, then said, "How about I only kill the line of Li Houcheng, the Eastern Bian Li Clan's patriarch?"
According to his original plan, if he was going to take revenge, he would cut down the weeds and tear out their roots.
Once he ascended to True Lord, he would use his True Lord status to unravel the threads of karma. Anyone with even the slightest karmic connection to the Eastern Bian Li Clan would be killed, without exception.
But if the Eastern Bian Li Clan was willing to trade a life for a life, he could concede a little. He would spare the clan's innocent members and kill only the line of Li Houcheng, who had plotted to dig out his immortal spirit root.
"Hmm... that's not something I can decide. Why don't you go to Sun-Moon Cliff and ask our Eastern Bian Li Clan's True Lord yourself? You might get a satisfactory answer." Li Huixi pretended to ponder for a moment before replying.
Zhang Yuan was somewhat speechless.
It was his own fault. Casual conversation with Li Huixi was fine, but when it came to settling things, could a newly attained Celestial Person of dubious character like her really make decisions on behalf of the Eastern Bian Li Clan's True Lord?
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