Chapter 447: Chapter 364: Fourth Tribulation Divine Weapon, Emperor Slaughter! (Please Subscribe)_3 Chapter 447: Chapter 364: Fourth Tribulation Divine Weapon, Emperor Slaughter! (Please Subscribe)_3 “Cruel? Lady, when you were scheming against us, did you consider it cruel? Oh, the lives of Hidden Soldier Valley disciples matter, but ours do not?”
“Do you really think Chen Yuan is unaware of the purpose behind bringing these people here?”
“Why would Green Envoy say such a thing?”
Lady Xu’s face subtly changed.
“Some things are better left unsaid, Lady. It’s better if you understand that yourself,” Chen Yuan said indifferently.
“Give me a few days, if they all perish today, it will inevitably raise suspicions.” Lady Xu’s face showed struggle, but she made a decision quickly.
“Lady can make the decisions; additionally, the compensation for the families of these people can be higher.” When being generous with others’ resources, Chen Yuan was never stingy.
“Good, I understand,” she said.
Lady Xu nodded her head.
Chen Yuan gazed at her, his eyes flickering, considering whether to solve both her and her son together. To tell the truth, they were actually quite useful.
Especially for the force he had established under his command, it was crucial. But if he didn’t kill them, he didn’t have a good way to control them, which made him somewhat conflicted.
Lady Xu caught the implicit look in his eyes and tensed up, saying in a deep voice:
“Green Envoy Chen, I assure you, I will not divulge this matter to anyone.”
“Why should I believe you?”
Lady Xu looked at him, seeming to have made up her mind, and said:
“In Jianghu, there’s something known as the God Control Gu. Have you heard of it, Green Envoy?”
“I have heard of it.”
Previously, while perusing the geographical records of Great Jin, Chen Yuan had come across some information about gu worms. Such things, along with Corpse Refinement, are considered unorthodox and not of the Righteous Path.
But the unorthodox practices sometimes have other clever uses; the God Control Gu, unique to the Miao Region, can dominate life and death. As long as the master gu is in hand,
one can easily control the subordinate gu…
In Jiao State, plenty of evil demons established their forces with it.
“I have it with me. When the time comes, you can control the master gu. My son and I will ingest the subordinate gu, and our lives will be in the hands of Green Envoy.
Could that put your mind at ease?”
It was difficult to make such a choice since it meant putting her whole life in someone else’s hands. But she genuinely did not want to see Hidden Soldier Valley disappear because of this.
Of course, another reason brought her to this decision.
That was Chen Yuan’s mysterious method of suppressing Evil Blade and his profound background and extraordinary talent.
Lady Xu was not foolish. Having nurtured Ouyang Zhi to adulthood as a woman and even pushing him to become the Valley Master of Hidden Soldier Valley and rise to the top fifty of the Hidden Dragon List—how could she be a fool?
Besides having no other option, she was also betting that Chen Yuan could become a top figure in Jianghu in the future.
If that were the case, Hidden Soldier Valley submitting to him might also be a good choice. With his protection, Ouyang Zhi could continue the ancestral legacy and bring glory to the Ouyang clan.
Chen Yuan watched Lady Xu with a smile that was not quite a smile.
The mother still had some value, but the son… that was tough to say.
“Zhi is the Valley Master of Hidden Soldier Valley. He’s extremely gifted in Artifact Refining and his cultivation talent is also not bad. If you can win him over, Green Envoy, you would gain a tremendous support.”
“Can you persuade him?”
It’s well known that many martial artists would rather break than bend, preferring death over servitude.
“I can persuade him, as long as Green Envoy agrees,” said Lady Xu, taking a deep breath.
“Fine, as long as you can persuade him to ingest the subordinate gu, Chen Yuan will spare his life.” He was someone who valued benefits highly and did not indulge in pointless killing.
Sometimes, killing is only a means to a greater end.
Currently, subjugating Hidden Soldier Valley would be more advantageous to him.
Remember, he had his base in Tangshan Prefecture, and he was badly in need of various types of weapons from Hidden Soldier Valley. If he could subdue them, he would have an excellent source for Refining Soldiers.
As the two were speaking, a figure approached from afar, flying through the air and arriving close to Chen Yuan.
And this person was Han Yu.
“Brother Chen, this is…”
Startled, Han Yu gazed at the scene of Crossing Tribulation in the sky; despite his broad experience, he had never witnessed such an event.
“This is a long story, I will explain to Han brother another day,” Chen Yuan replied.
Han Yu nodded, though he was very puzzled, since Chen Yuan was unwilling to elaborate, he naturally could not continue to ask.
“What about the other fellow daoists?”
In the vicinity of this small mountain, aside from Han Yu, Chen Yuan only detected three bodies that had perished due to backlash from the evil weapons, and two others vanished without a trace.
If it were not for the fact that he had to keep an eye on that evil blade, he would have surely pursued them.
“These two had some old enmity with Han, and they have already passed on,” Han Yu explained.
Chen Yuan’s eyebrows lifted; this was the first time he heard Han Yu mention this.
“The grudges that were formed earlier. In part, my coming to Hidden Soldier Valley to attend the Divine Weapon Gathering was indeed directed against them,” Han Yu said.
Hearing this, Chen Yuan did not further inquire. Every person has their secrets, and asking too much would be inappropriate.