Reversal after Reversal, a Great Change in [Heaven-in-a-Pot]; Bargaining with a Tiger, Taking Revenge along the Way (10K Words-Please Subscribe and Vote)

If he could add that Chaos Pearl to his spoils, it would be perfect----

Failing that, obtaining materials from the black tortoise's corpse would still be worthwhile.

So Lin Changheng mused to himself.

If anyone else learned of these thoughts, they would probably say, "A thief never leaves empty-handed."

But so what? Lin Chang had always followed his heart-both his true heart and his Dao heart! He paid no heed to what others thought.

Still, every idea and every plan, from conception to execution, had to rest on one fundamental premise.

Safety!

He did not demand absolute certainty, but a plan needed at least an eighty or ninety percent chance before Lin Changheng would put it on his desk as an option.

Once he selected one, Lin Changheng would make a few adjustments and add several contingencies and escape routes. Then it would essentially be ready to carry out.

Steady enough!

After racking his brains, Lin Changheng really did come up with a new idea that seemed feasible.

He immediately began working through it and refining it.

About an hour later.

True Person Xuanji, clad in purple robes, was actually sitting cross-legged and healing her injuries. Her eyes were tightly shut, but her divine sense kept spreading outward, paying particular attention to the passage leading here.

She had not gone to retrieve the Chaos Pearl.

It was not that she did not want to, but that----she feared another unforeseen turn.

Mainly, that black-clad cultivator was far too underhanded-underhanded beyond all bounds. Concealing himself without a sound, he had repeatedly launched sneaky attacks on the Thunder-Arts Golden Cultivator, leaving that insufferably arrogant fellow gravely wounded and beaten into submission, able only to scurry away like a rat.

Throughout the entire encounter, the black-clad cultivator had not attacked her, but he had