Looking into her eyes, Li Qianli understood in an instant, and a bitter yet mad smile tugged at his lips.
So that was it!
He had intended to use the Golden Silkworm Gu Poison as bait, drawing the two great beasts, Taiping and Wu Sansi, into a struggle while he sat securely on the fishing platform. Never had he imagined that one day he would become the sword in her hand, helping her eliminate her political enemies...
She had calculated his determination to kill Wu Sansi-and, more importantly, that faced with this once-in-a-thousand-years opportunity, he would swallow any risk or consequence, however bitter!
The divine weapon lost during Emperor Gaozong's reign was actually in her hands. How old had she been back then?
It seemed Emperor Gaozong had foreseen this and passed the armor-breaking method to her beforehand... She might not have known Wu Sansi was wearing the Cloud-Bearing Armor, but this sword could break through any trump card Wu Meiniang had left the Wu Clan!
"What masterful scheming. What masterful scheming!"
The flicker of anger Li Qianli felt at being used was instantly drowned beneath a fiercer killing intent and the determination to smash his cauldrons and sink his boats.
Veins bulged on the hand gripping his sword hilt.
There was no time to hesitate!
Li Qianli immediately pulled out the Cloud-Splitting Sword and locked his killing intent onto Wu Sansi.
"Master Xiao, cover me!"
Recovering from his fright, Wu Sansi shouted sharply and drove his Imperial Pole World-Reordering Art to its utmost limit. Pale golden earth energy coiled around his body like a raging dragon, its radiance mingling with the earthen-yellow mountain silhouette of the Mountain-Bearing Armor. Even knowing he faced a divine sword, he refused to believe that his decades of Fifth Realm cultivation, combined with peerless