"We must find a way to get rid of Yang Zongfu!"
"As long as he lives, he'll remain a grave threat!"
"He's exceptionally skilled, and lately he's had more and more trusted aides around him. I think poison is our only option if we want to kill him!"
"He's very close to the Wanderers. If we can find someone to mingle with them and get close to him, we can poison him!"
At that moment, inside the Grand General's Residence on Wangwu Mountain, Wang Yuan's trusted aides were discussing plans to kill Yang Zongfu. Liu Lu had come into the mountains under the alias Yang Zongfu, and these men had no idea who he really was.
The men under Wang Yuan had limited experience and could not come up with any ingenious schemes.
The best method they could think of was merely poisoning him.
Wang Yuan listened to them with a stern face, but something kept feeling wrong.
This fellow Yang had risen far too quickly. His trusted aides had all come up the mountain later, yet they had submitted directly to him, and no one else could win them over. Moreover, every time he went down the mountain, his influence grew, and he carried out his business with remarkable success.
None of this seemed like something an ordinary Wanderer could accomplish.
He also knew Guo Ze extremely well. Ever since this fellow Yang had submitted to Guo Ze, Guo Ze had suddenly become difficult to approach, and even difficult to deceive. It did not seem as though Yang Zongfu was assisting Guo Ze, but rather that Guo Ze was assisting Yang Zongfu.
Whenever he went to see Guo Ze and told him his ideas, Guo Ze would say he needed to think them over before giving him an answer.