"Cao Jinxing's injuries have healed..."
On Peach Blossom Island, Huang Baiyuan, head of the Huang Family, stared at the letter in his hand in disbelief. "How could he recover so quickly?!"
Only three or four days had passed. What could the Qin Family have excavated?
If there were no great treasures, they would abandon it without a second thought once an enemy arrived. Wouldn't telling the Fang Family now simply be handing it to them for nothing?
But if he said nothing now, with Cao Jinxing involved, there was no guarantee he wouldn't notice something. How was he supposed to get the timing right?
Huang Baiyuan's head ached. Neither the Ghost-Clothes Marquis nor Old Man Hidden Fish could think of a good solution, especially after reading the news above: Cao Jinxing had destroyed so many of the Gongshu Family Clan's deadly weapons right in front of the Fang Family. He had even wrecked the Black Iron Mechanical Beasts that the Fang Family could do nothing about!
With strength like that, even if they told the Fang Family, would they still attack the Qin Family as previously expected?
Huang Baiyuan paced anxiously.
Once the Qin Family gained power, they would inevitably squeeze out the Huang Family. This concerned the survival of the entire family.
Qin Zhaonan had entered seclusion, leaving the Qin Family vulnerable, yet now an even more troublesome Cao Jinxing had appeared...
Were they supposed to simply watch them salvage the sunken ship and claim all its treasures?
Then wouldn't all the wealth they had spent agreeing to the Qin Family's exorbitant demands to ransom Siyuan sooner have gone down the drain?
"There's no need to worry, Family Head."
Old Man Hidden Fish reassured him. "The Qin Family's salvage operation hasn't been going smoothly. That sunken ship is riddled