The Beggar Gang had arranged separate lodgings for Xin Shang and the others, but Lin Bai had scared the Evil Sect leaders out of their wits. After leaving the Beggar Gang, they stuck together like shadows, doing everything as a group.
Lin Bai could not find an opening at all.
Actually.
It was not impossible to use the players to lure the tiger away from its mountain. But that would look too deliberate. These fellows were already bundles of nerves; at the slightest rustle of wind or grass, the Righteous Alliance he had painstakingly assembled would probably fall apart.
"This is going too far. We're all allies already. Can't we have a little trust in one another?" Lin Bai grumbled in frustration.
"..." Daoxu was speechless. Trust! Don't you know what the hell you're planning to do?
Daojing and Daokong felt their faces burn. They could not understand how Lin Bai could say something like that with such righteous conviction. Did he truly have no idea what shame was?
Daojing urged awkwardly, "Sect leader, why don't we let it go? There's no need to rush. Things have finally settled down. Who knows how many eyes are watching our Righteousness Sect? We shouldn't let any more branches sprout from this mess."
Daokong chimed in, "Why not calm down and cultivate Words Become Law?"
Lin Bai was far too good at stirring up trouble, and these Taoists were growing afraid. Unlike the people of the Five Evil Sects, everyone in the Returning Dragon Temple had been battered beyond recognition by Lin Bai and was practically bound to him. They, too, feared that he would wreck everything, dust off his backside, and leave them to clean up the mess.
Reviewing the missions in his mind, Lin Bai found a way forward in an