"Qian Kun really was a fool. He actually played himself to death with the Greenfly Coins!"
Seeing the Greenfly Coins reappear, Pei Qingguang, Jin Yuanbo, and the others seemed to breathe sighs of relief. Then they looked around at the empty surroundings and asked through voice transmission, "Fellow Daoist Li, could you show yourself? We have something to discuss."
So far, neither of them had shown any obvious hostility.
Li Ling quietly sensed the complex auras rising from them for a while, his Divine Ability illuminating their thoughts much like Mind-to-Mind Communication. Finally, he withdrew the protection of the Dust-Transcending Incense and revealed himself before everyone.
"What advice might you two have for me?"
Pei Qingguang said, "Qian Kun intended to defect to the Netherworld Sect and undermine the foundations of our Money Guild's neutrality. Now he has fallen...
"We do not wish to dwell on this matter. We would only ask you one thing: would you be willing to take charge of the Greenfly Coins and become our guild's new Treasure Envoy?"
Li Ling looked surprised. "Are you serious? You want me to take over as Treasure Envoy?"
Pei Qingguang showed no hint of joking as he confirmed, "Precisely. What do you think?"
Li Ling could not help looking at the two of them again, then fell into thought.
When a prime minister's mother died, guests crowded his doors. When the prime minister himself died, he might not receive such grand treatment.
This was not a matter of principle, but human nature.
Thus, beating the young and having their elders come after you was perfectly normal.
But beating the elders was an entirely different matter.
If Qian Kun had merely been a young genius sheltered beneath the General Association's wings, there would never have been any talk of "a