Path of the Five Immortals
Chapter 2316

Several Lines Strike at Once

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Lin Fengshan and Xu Li had survived until now thanks to the many factions within "Return Home," which had always kept one another in check.

He and Xu Li had each attached themselves to different factions, thinking that if anyone grew suspicious, those people would not dare move against both of them at once.

Otherwise, if the headquarters conducted a single indiscriminate Soul Search, nearly all the hidden agents who might be lurking here would be swept up in one net.

Even if "Return Home" failed to uncover anything, if quite a few people died in the same manner, others would still be able to guess what sort of identities they had.

But such a thing was not easy to happen. Although these internal factions within the trading firm could not contend against the master of the headquarters, they were also secretly fighting one another for power and profit.

At the same time, this was precisely the result the headquarters master wanted to see. Only when his subordinates checked and balanced one another could no force arise that might threaten him.

Thus, amid these open and covert struggles, which faction did not have secrets too shameful to see the light? Under such circumstances, so long as there was no evidence, they would absolutely not permit anyone to casually touch their own subordinates.

Not even if the headquarters master moved against members of other factions. Once one person was touched, a second could be touched as well, and soon it would certainly be their turn. They understood better than anyone the truth that when the rabbit died, the fox grieved, and when the lips were gone, the teeth grew cold.

This was precisely the confidence Lin Fengshan and Xu Li relied on. They respectively belonged to two different factions within the

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