Gu Ming pondered for a moment, then snapped:
"Deal with her, my ass!"
"You spent ten years helping me just so I would deal with her?"
"No, no! I know asking you to deal with a little girl would be using a great talent for a petty task. There is a greater target ahead that requires your intervention. I swear on my life that if you help me succeed, I will give you anything you want."
Duke Yan hastily explained.
"Oh? How great a task?" Gu Ming raised an eyebrow and asked coolly.
"Help me take their lives. Not a single one can be spared." Duke Yan's gaze turned vicious. The day he had waited for had finally come.
"Whose lives?"
Gu Ming pressed.
"East..."
"Duke!"
Steward Qian's call interrupted Duke Yan's hatred-clouded thoughts.
Duke Yan came to his senses and looked warily around him.
Daoist Huiyue and several attendants were all present.
He composed himself and said to Gu Ming, "Guardian, do you need a body to possess? I will find one for you, and we can discuss our grand plans at leisure!"
Gu Ming waved a hand. "No need. I already have a mortal body to inhabit. Summoning me here tonight was downright presumptuous!"
Sister Wan had almost agreed to take him on as her underling.
Who could have known that this blind fool Duke Yan would summon him using the dark arts recorded in an ancient text?
Unbelievable.
"I did not know. Where are you residing? I will send someone to bring you here." Duke Yan felt slightly stifled.
But he quickly worked it out.
Of course. Guardian Gu Ming was no longer in the Abandoned Infant Pagoda, so he must have been inhabiting a mortal body all this time.
"I'm at the home of that two-and-a-half-year-old