"Give me a brief rundown of your plan. You don't have to explain it too clearly, and I won't tell anyone else.
I just want to see whether you're worth siding with." Feng Qing'er was clearly beginning to waver.
"Most importantly, you need a trump card capable of keeping a Five-Star Dou Sheng in check. If you can't beat Huang Tian in terms of strength, even the best plan will be useless.
And don't count on my aunt, either. She wouldn't last three moves against him. Not just my aunt,
even if all the Dou Sheng Experts in the clan joined forces, dealing with them would only cost him a little extra time."
"I naturally have powerful people on my side, too. I'll just need to drive a wolf into swallowing a tiger and borrow someone else's blade to do the killing.
You should know the other race that stands above your Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, right? The Ancient Void Dragons."
Qin Yun directly named the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, the undisputed pinnacle of the entire Beast Realm.
"The Ancient Void Dragons?" Feng Qing'er sucked in a cold breath. That fear was etched into her bloodline. They were her race's only natural enemy.
"You have connections with them? Then why didn't you choose them instead of coming to bother us Heavenly Demon Phoenixes?" Feng Qing'er narrowed her eyes, a barely perceptible note of resentment in her voice.
"Uh, to be precise, I know them, but they don't know me. Either way, the name Ancient Void Dragon should carry enough weight, right?"
Qin Yun lightly tapped the rock beside him with a finger, silently weighing his plans.
"At their peak, even our clan leader would be fodder. But they're divided internally now, and even their strongest is only a Four-Star Dou Sheng.
Still, with help from the Dou Sheng Experts within our clan, we might have a chance if a dozen or so people surrounded the clan leader."
Feng Qing'er weighed it in her mind. If they really could secure the Ancient Void Dragons' help, perhaps it truly was possible.
But there was still another problem: why would they help her?
What price would they have to pay to invite one of their experts over?
Would the entire race have to submit to the Ancient Void Dragons and become prisoners?
Feng Qing'er voiced those concerns as well. Yet Qin Ming's answer was:
"I have a better option. This Ancient Void Dragon expert can only operate within a certain area. He can't leave its boundaries.
As long as we lure Huang Tian to the right location, things will become very simple." Qin Yun had long been confident about this. He had an exceptional enforcer in mind.
"Who?" Feng Qing'er couldn't wait to learn who this mysterious expert was.
"The Old Dragon Emperor."
"!!!"
"You mean the Ancient Void Dragons' previous Dragon Emperor, who was already a Nine-Star Dou Saint ten thousand years ago?" Feng Qing'er couldn't help letting her mouth fall slightly open.
He was a terrifying expert who had stood at the pinnacle of the Dou Qi Continent ten thousand years ago.
Back then, if he called himself second, no one dared claim first. Even the current leaders of the Ancient Eight Clans could only call themselves juniors before him.
With him taking action, never mind dealing with Huang Tian-they could even set their sights higher, on something like unifying the Dou Qi Continent.
"You know where he is?" Feng Qing'er asked again to confirm.
Qin Yun merely blinked, tacitly admitting it.
"Are you sure he'll help us, rather than slaughter the donkey once it's finished turning the millstone?"
Feng Qing'er couldn't believe that the Ancient Void Dragons' Old Dragon Emperor would willingly help his mortal enemies.
"That's a little complicated. It involves the next stage of my plan. If you're willing to hear me out, I can tell you now." Qin Yun asked for her opinion.
"What are the odds?"
"About seventy percent. If we can get Huang Tian into a certain area, the odds will rise to ninety percent."
"All right, you don't need to explain. I trust you. I'll help you with this, but only in a personal capacity.
I'll also put you in touch with my aunt, but whether you can persuade her will be up to you."
Feng Qing'er considered it seriously and ultimately decided to join him in this madness.
If they truly succeeded, it might mark a historic turning point for their entire race.
"All right, that's all I needed to hear." Qin Yun nodded. "But there's one thing I need to remind you of again.
No one else can know about what we discussed today. You can't breathe a word of it,
not even to the people closest to you. You understand what I'm saying, right? Do you know what to do next?"
"Mm, I think I understand a little." Feng Qing'er tilted her head.
"Do you really understand? Did you get what I just meant?"
Seeing her rather adorably clueless expression, Qin Yun checked again.
"Yes. Although we've spent some time together, for your safety and mine,
I can only try to make it quick for him." Feng Qing'er hesitated for a few seconds before finally making up her mind.
"Wait, wait, wait! What are you going to do? Make it quick for whom? Do you really understand what I mean?" Qin Yun felt as though he'd just heard something utterly outrageous.
"What? Weren't you hinting that I should get rid of Fei Tian? He's been following us around this whole time.
There's a very good chance he knows something. Isn't that what you meant just now?"
Feng Qing'er was thoroughly bewildered, and even wore an expression that said, I'm so damn clever.
"No, no! What the fuck did you take that to mean? I meant keep your lips sealed and don't go blabbing,
not kill anyone! Just keep it between the two of us." Qin Yun was utterly speechless. They had nearly caused a major disaster.
"Oh. Who told you not to explain it clearly? And now you're blaming me?" Feng Qing'er awkwardly stuck out her tongue.
She had agonized over it for so long before finally resolving to give Fei Tian a quick death, only for all that effort to go to waste.
Meanwhile, Fei Tian suddenly let out an enormous sneeze.
"What's going on? Is someone plotting against me? Damn it, it must be that little brat.
Hmph, I'll give him a few extra beatings the next time I test his cultivation. Otherwise, my Dao Heart won't be steady."
Poor Fei Tian had no idea that, just moments ago, his name had been flickering in and out of the King of Hell's Book of Life and Death, hopping back and forth across the line.
Qin Yun was indeed thinking about Fei Tian at that moment, but unlike Fei Tian, he had the man's private stash in mind.
I just saved his life. Taking a few things to reward myself wouldn't be too much, would it?
Several more days soon passed, and Qin Yun felt he had spent enough time at the Xiao Clan.
He had already built up plenty of goodwill. After spending these days together, Xiao Yan's favorability toward him had reached at least eighty.
Every affectionate cry of "Big Brother Qin" was warmer than the last, and Xiao Yan was even tempted to become sworn brothers with him.
As for Xiao Xun'er, there might have been a little tension between them at first. The way she looked at him during those first few days had been rather strange.
But after spending some time together, she discovered that he really did seem to be there to invest in Xiao Yan, without doing anything else out of line.
Their relationship therefore became less strained. Just a few days earlier, she had even taken the rare step of greeting him first.
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