When the Xiao Clan's war machine began to turn, a grim, murderous air rose throughout Heaven Beyond.
Heaven Beyond, the Ninth Layer of Heavenly Strategy Manor.
Only Huang Jiuji and Xiao Tian Ce remained in the room, seated opposite each other. Turning a teacup in his hand, Xiao Tian Ce smiled. "Elder Huang, don't worry. They're nothing but a pack of capering clowns. They won't stir up any waves."
"Heh, with you here, Clan Leader, those people truly are no more than capering clowns. I'm not worried. With the Xiao Clan's current strength, even if we faced all the other Emperor Clans at once, there would be nothing to fear.
"But wouldn't releasing the news so abruptly stir the grass and startle the snake?" Huang Jiuji asked with a smile.
He was referring to the scheme to sow discord that the Xiao Clan had settled on earlier. Xiao Tian Ce naturally understood.
"Rather than stirring the grass to startle the snake, I'd call it striking the mountain to frighten the tiger.
"If we didn't still owe the Gu Clan a favor, they would actually be the best target.
"As for the Stone Clan and the Spirit Clan, they're nothing but dry bones in a tomb. Even if they didn't betray us, I'd move against them in a few years.
"Now that they've betrayed us first, they've saved me the trouble of plotting against them," Xiao Tian Ce said with some disdain.
Huang Jiuji froze for a moment at those words. He had vaguely guessed why Xiao Tian Ce wanted to do this, but he had no evidence. Since Xiao Tian Ce had not said it outright either, he did not want to bring it up rashly.
After a brief moment of thought, Huang Jiuji nodded with a smile. "Whatever happens,