A faint smile appeared on Boluo's face. He reached up and removed the Jade Token pressed against his forehead. Rather than probing it with his Divine Sense, he spoke with an air of understanding:
"You must mean that an Evil Cultivator named Xu Si has emerged, intending to refine an entire nation to achieve Blood Qi Tribulation Transcendence. Even Black Crow was drawn in and is preparing to join him... right?"
Zhong Su cast him a sidelong glance, his somewhat upturned, triangular eyes and brows giving him a vicious look:
"You certainly have your fingers in plenty of pies. You only just dealt with Bai Xuanling a little while ago, and already there's another show, with a clear target. Black Crow doesn't know about your meeting with Bai Xuanling, so he doesn't know anything is amiss. But you should understand."
"No one who cultivates Blood Qi could resist a temptation this great. The entire Evil Spirit Cult could be wiped out because of it."
Boluo straightened up, though his backside remained planted in the mud:
"Then let them be wiped out. It's only the Evil Spirit Cult. They could never escape Chu Xingchen's grasp anyway. It was only a matter of when Chu Xingchen wanted to deal with them, and how."
Zhong Su scoffed and stared at Boluo:
"We control more than half the Evil Spirit Cult. Even the deputy Cult Leader is one of ours. You're throwing it away with a word? Do you plan to handle all those dirty jobs yourself from now on?"
Boluo reached into the muddy pool beside him. After feeling around for a moment, he pulled a lotus seed covered in sludge from the mud:
"All we need is for the flower to bloom. All the mud that came before is nourishment. Could it