"Senior Liu, what about the Tortoise Shell Inscription held by the Eighteen Families Firms?" Huang Xiao asked.
The Tortoise Shell Inscription was also crucial and indispensable.
"Speaking of that, we did miscalculate somewhat back then." Liu Tengfan shook his head with a wry chuckle.
Huang Xiao looked puzzled. "I don't understand."
"The matter of the Eighteen Families Firms," Liu Tengfan said. "Chen Xiangrong is actually a member of the Ten Thousand Demons Hall."
"What?" Hearing this, Huang Xiao could not help widening his eyes and crying out in surprise.
The Eighteen Families Firms held a rather special status. There was already an unwritten rule in the Jianghu that the Great Powers were not to set their sights on them.
To think that Chen Xiangrong belonged to the Ten Thousand Demons Hall, and had even become the leader of the Trading Company Alliance-it was simply inconceivable.
"The Demon Hall put the Ten Thousand Demons Hall in charge of this matter. Planning began many years ago," Liu Tengfan said. "At the time, only the Supreme Elder, Commander Shi, and the then Inner Hall Grand Elder knew about it. I only learned of it after succeeding to the position of Inner Hall Grand Elder."
"Then why do you call it a miscalculation, Senior? Surely this means our Demon Hall succeeded?" Huang Xiao asked in puzzlement.
The Tortoise Shell Inscription Stele was now in the hands of their Demon Hall.
"At the time, we wanted to bring the Tortoise Shell Inscription under the Demon Hall's control to prevent Imperial Remnant Manor from going too far. With the Tortoise Shell Inscription, we could also threaten them. We didn't yet know that you would actually obtain the Longevity Jade Slips from the Longevity Death Formation. So we thought our Demon Hall needed to control at least