"If you must blame someone, blame yourself for accepting benefits from my Jia Lie family yet thinking you could just die like this and be done with it."
"After killing you, we'll pin the blame on the Xiao family. For the sake of his reputation, your teacher will have to help our Jia Lie family deal with the Xiao family."
Disguising his voice as Jia Lie Bi's, Xiao Ting injected a strand of foreign Battle Qi into Liu Xi while retracting his hand.
This way, Liu Xi—who was currently faking death with some method—would die from heart vein damage in a few days or when emotionally agitated.
When he relayed these words to his teacher, the other party would naturally bring people to trouble Jia Lie Bi, only to die with no evidence before reaching Wu Tan City.
After Liu Xi's teacher finished causing trouble for the Jia Lie family, he would secretly push for the destruction of the Jia Lie family. On the surface, it would have nothing to do with the Xiao family.
Finally, he would secretly eliminate Liu Xi's teacher as well, achieving complete eradication of the roots.
At the same time, he would prepare the Xiao family so they could take over the Jia Lie family's assets at the first opportunity.
In the future, Wu Tan City would only need one voice.
"Whoosh!"
After leaving this backup plan, Xiao Ting's figure leaped high into the air, jumped onto a large tree, and disappeared.
About a quarter of an hour later, Liu Xi suddenly opened his eyes and violently spat out a mouthful of fresh blood.
"Jia! Lie! Bi!" Liu Xi clutched his chest with one hand, his face full of rage. "Good, very good. You assassinated me and even tried to frame the Xiao family, using my teacher as a weapon."
"But you don't know my teacher's methods. I have a third-grade fake death pill. Just you wait."
Liu Xi shakily stood up, clutching his chest as he prepared to leave and return to find his teacher for revenge.
What he did not know was that two women were watching him from the air. One of them was already preparing to strike and kill him. "Xiao Ting is still too young. He didn't notice that this person isn't fully dead."
"I think Xiao Ting deliberately didn't kill him," Yun Yun spoke up.
"Still want to watch?" Medusa's hand paused in its motion.
The two of them had sensed Xiao Ting leaving Wu Tan City, so they followed to check.
By the time they arrived, Xiao Ting had just left, and they sensed that Liu Xi still had breath.
"Xiao Ting's soul realm is not weak," Yun Yun shared her judgment. "It's impossible for him not to have noticed that Liu Xi is still alive."
"He probably didn't even use soul force to check," Medusa felt Xiao Ting had been careless.
But the next moment, both she and Yun Yun received a notification that the Journal had been updated.
The content Xiao Ting wrote was precisely about his actions against Liu Xi and his secret plan.
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[I deliberately shot an acupoint that would make him appear to be in fake death. I didn't expect Liu Xi to have taken a fake death pill himself.]
[So…]
[This is called borrowing a knife to kill, acting with rightful justification, directing a scene where the snipe and clam fight while the fisherman benefits.]
[The people of this world are mostly not very smart. If Yun Yun and Medusa understood these principles, they would have long developed the Misty Cloud Sect and Snake-People Tribe out of their predicaments.]
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Yun Yun and Medusa: "…"
You're showing off your plan, fine, but what's with stepping on us?
In fact, Xiao Ting had deliberately written this experience to create the illusion that he recorded every single detail in his Journal.
He truly had not known before that someone could see the Journal, but now that he did, there would definitely be clever women guessing whether he had already realized it, or thinking he might have known from the beginning that others could read the Journal's contents.
He had to plan ahead for everyone's sake.
…
"What do you say? If I kill Liu Xi now, how about ruining Xiao Ting's plan?" Medusa asked Yun Yun.
"Calm down. Aren't you about to ask him to help you break through soon?" Yun Yun comforted her.
"Fine. Since you're pleading for him." Medusa put away her longbow.
Yun Yun: "…"
I clearly didn't plead for Xiao Ting; I was giving you an out. Will you die if you stop being so stubborn?
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In the following days, the residents of Wu Tan City witnessed the Xiao family's dominance. The Jia Lie family was besieged on all fronts, and the Ao Ba Clan was also affected.
The Jia Lie family wanted to negotiate peace, but the Xiao family directly closed its doors and refused guests, showing no intention of talking.
After the Miteer Auction House publicly announced its cooperation with the Xiao family, the Jia Lie family was completely out of options.
In the end, they could only join forces with the Ao Ba Clan and ask the city lord to mediate, paying a huge price in the process and suffering severe damage.
Just when everyone thought the matter would temporarily come to an end, a third-grade alchemist named Teng Ma appeared, claiming to be Liu Xi's teacher and demanding justice for his disciple.
It turned out that on that day, Liu Xi had desperately rushed back to the nearest major city to Wu Tan City—Black Sky City—told of his experiences in Wu Tan City, and soon after vomited blood and died.
To Teng Ma, this was a slap to his own face, so he came to Wu Tan City demanding an explanation.
Jia Lie Bi naturally refused to admit anything, and the two sides eventually clashed.
Teng Ma was only at the peak of Dou Master, but as a third-grade alchemist, it was no problem for him to recruit several Dou Grandmaster to help.
During the process, Jia Lie Bi was accidentally heavily injured and ultimately died from his wounds.
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"Tsk tsk tsk, what do you call this?" After listening to Qing Lin's vivid retelling, Xiao Ting shook his head and sighed. "This is called 'heaven collects those who are cheap and wicked.' The Jia Lie family wouldn't behave and insisted on targeting my Xiao family. They played themselves into ruin."
The women present: "…"
Ah yes, yes, you are that "heaven."
"Why aren't you saying anything?" Xiao Ting asked with a suspicious look. "Do you not agree?"
"Brother Xiao Ting is right." As his number one fan, Xun Er was the first to agree, her eyes full of Xiao Ting.
"Those who do many injustices will inevitably bring about their own demise," the Little Fairy Doctor elegantly sipped her tea.
"The Jia Lie family brought this upon themselves," Qing Lin snorted lightly. "They deserve this outcome."
"This Queen actually thinks there might be someone scheming behind the scenes," Medusa lazily leaned against a stone pillar and sneered. "Otherwise, how could there be so many coincidences? The Jia Lie family's luck is really too poor."
The women: ?
Only Queen Medusa had a different opinion.
"I don't think so," Yun Yun stood beside Medusa and shared her view. "How can there be so many coincidences in this world? If someone truly was manipulating everything behind the scenes and planned this matter so flawlessly, how resourceful would that person have to be?"
The women: !?
There was another expert.
So this was the real Yun Yun—indirectly praising Xiao Ting.
"Sect Leader Yun Yun is right." Xiao Ting gave a thumbs-up in strong approval. Praising himself was definitely fine.
Medusa's beautiful eyebrows instantly furrowed. So the clown was her?
"You're just a maid. Who allowed you to speak?" Medusa scolded.
Yun Yun tightened her grip on the tray in her hands and silently told herself that everything was for the plane's blessing.
"Queen, status does not affect the right to speak," Xiao Ting backed Yun Yun up. "Sect Leader Yun Yun is the leader of a sect. Her perspective is definitely more comprehensive."
"This Queen is still the queen of a tribe."
"The Snake-People Tribe is different from the human race. Like magical beast clans, they purely believe in bloodline and strength and don't use their brains much."
"What?" Queen Medusa narrowed her long, narrow eyes. "You're saying this Queen has no brains."
"I'm saying that Queen is so powerful that in the face of absolute strength, there's no need to use your brain," Xiao Ting calmly responded.
"That's actually true." Medusa snorted coldly and crossed her arms. "This Queen has the strength to suppress all dissent."
With that, she turned to look at Yun Yun and said indifferently, "This is an example. No matter whether one has brains or not, if your strength is insufficient, you can only be a maid."
"Queen Medusa, don't go too far." Yun Yun spoke half-jokingly and half-seriously in anger. "Do you think this sect leader has no way to perish together with you?"
"Try it." Medusa raised an eyebrow.
"Alright, alright, both of you calm down." Xiao Ting immediately stepped in to mediate.
"This Queen will give you face." Medusa snorted coldly with a straight face, then changed the subject. "Xiao Ting, this Queen is preparing to try breaking through to Dou Ancestor. Use your Heavenly Flame to help me."
"What?" Xiao Ting showed a suspicious expression. "You can already attempt to advance?"
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