151: A cricket that lives openly and honestly!

"It's fine as long as they don't look for trouble with me. Expecting them to speak up for me is practically a pipe dream."

Chen Xian finished speaking.

He took out a Jade Slip and tapped it with his finger.

He threw it directly to Pei Ning.

"This is the truth about what happened to your father back then, as investigated by the Marquis of Jubei's Residence. Although it's only a few words, it's better than knowing nothing at all."

After emerging from the Lake Bottom Secret Realm...

Chen Xian really hadn't forgotten about how Pei Ning's father died.

After all, back then, his main thought was to recruit people. If the Emperor's trusted aide could be used for his own purposes...

Wouldn't that be a massive boost for him?

Precisely because he thought of this, Chen Xian had searched his father's study from back then. He hadn't expected to actually find a record of an internal disturbance.

The reason was simple: Pei Ning's father had led troops to suppress a rebellion, but upon his return, he was suspected by the Emperor and died in an 'accident'!

Pei Ning activated the Jade Slip and saw that segment of history.

Without needing more words, she already knew the truth of the matter.

She crushed the Jade Slip.

The two sat on the hillside, silent for a moment.

Chen Xian looked at her.

"What do you plan to do?"

Pei Ning clenched her fists tightly.

"I don't know!"

Kill her father's murderer with her own hands?

If it were anyone else, Pei Ning would have done so without a second thought.

After all, with her status and strength, it wasn't impossible.

But after she learned the identity of the true murderer...

She fell into silence.

There was no other reason.

Because the person who killed her biological father was the same person who had given her everything she had.

"If it were you, what would you do?"

Chen Xian yawned.

"I'd slaughter that son of a bitch. I don't know what your temperament is like, but if this happened to me, I wouldn't be able to endure it."

He spoke very casually.

But his stance was very clear.

The grudge of a father's murder is irreconcilable.

This was something that could never be allowed to simply vanish into thin air.

Pei Ning gave Chen Xian a meaningful look.

"If I were to give you a way out, would you kill the Emperor?"

Chen Xian shrugged.

"Don't put me on a pedestal."

"I just want to survive his hand; I never thought I could kill him."

"A Quasi-Saint who has lived for over a hundred years—you think he's someone you can just kill whenever you want?"

Pei Ning narrowed her eyes.

"Then what do you plan to do next?"

"It's simple: kill you all, then slay a King-rank Demon Beast. I'll just deal with the Emperor after I come out."

If Chen Xian had said this yesterday...

Pei Ning might have thought he was joking, but after seeing Chen Xian take on three opponents today without losing ground...

She felt that this man's words were true.

"We won't fight you anymore."

"Consider it my way of repaying this favor!"

After Pei Ning finished speaking, she said to the Embroidered Uniform Guards behind her, "Let's go!"

The ten Embroidered Uniform Guards looked at Pei Ning in a daze.

"Where are we going?"

"The mission failed. I will return and accept my punishment personally!"

Hearing this, the expressions of the ten guards changed drastically.

"No, Commander Pei, if the mission fails, we likely won't survive."

Pei Ning said coldly, "Then you can try to kill him. Whoever thinks they can kill him, feel free to step forward."

The ten Embroidered Uniform Guards looked at each other.

A day ago, they still thought Chen Xian was just a second generation ancestor.

But now...

In their eyes, this man's mystery and power made them afraid to act.

Chen Xian stood up with a smile.

"Alright, alright, talking about fighting and killing is so boring."

"I have only one thing to say!"

"You'll die if you go back anyway, so why not join me? I can let you live well. How about it?"

His words made Gu Qingcheng's and Zheng Yi's heads buzz.

Wait, brother...

You're trying to incite these Embroidered Uniform Guards to defect right to their faces?

These are the Emperor's trusted aides.

The ten guards were also completely bewildered at this moment.

They had seen betrayal, surrender, and capitulation countless times, but they were always the powerful side in that relationship.

This was the first time someone had tried to recruit them!

"We are the Emperor's trusted confidants!"

"I know, but if you don't complete the mission, you'll die for sure once you leave!"

"We were raised and trained by the current Emperor!"

"I know, but if you don't complete the mission, you'll die for sure once you leave!"

"We once swore an oath to serve His Majesty the Emperor to the death."

"I know, but if you don't complete the mission, you'll die for sure once you leave!"

"We..."

The ten guards were speechless.

Chen Xian just kept hammering that one point.

And what he said actually made some sense.

"If we follow you, can we really survive?"

Chen Xian said with a smile, "Otherwise? Why else would I bother recruiting you?"

"Chen Xian, we don't believe you!"

"It's fine if you don't believe me. You'll die once you leave anyway. Especially since the people the Emperor sent to kill you are already on their way."

Although they scoffed at Chen Xian's words...

Their hearts skipped a beat.

If it were true, then they really were about to become discarded pawns.

Seeing this group of people hesitating and half-doubting...

Chen Xian said with a smile, "How about we make a bet?"

"You already lost the last bet."

"This time, I bet that in three hours, the people the Imperial Court sent to assassinate you will arrive one after another."

"Fine! If it's true, we'll join you!"

Chen Xian smiled.

He looked at the System panel that popped up in front of him.

[Daily Intelligence 1: In three hours, the second Tian Zi Squad members sent by Li Zhen will secretly head to the Shanhai Secret Realm, intending to capture the Host and eliminate all the Embroidered Uniform Guards!]

The information from the System intelligence...

Naturally couldn't be wrong.

However, just then...

Chen Xian heard a burst of cheering.

He looked closely.

It turned out that those Prodigies had already finished killing all the Western Continent Prodigies.

After seizing the treasures they had plundered...

They each let out cheers of joy.

However, their gazes soon fell upon Chen Xian.

One of the Prodigies slowly walked up to Chen Xian.

"Chen Xian, we've dealt with those thugs from the Western Continent!"

"Next, why don't we split these things up?"

"How about everyone brings out the treasures they got today and we divide them equally?"

As soon as they said this...

Gu Qingcheng stood up in anger and said, "What kind of joke are you playing!"

"If not for the Young Lord, you would have long ago become souls under the blades of those madmen from the Western Continent!"

"Now you have the shamelessness to want to take a share of what the Young Lord obtained! You're simply too brazen!"

The other party clearly wanted the ten thousand year fire lotus; such intentions were as plain as the nose on one's face!

However, these few Prodigies weren't provoked by the angry Gu Qingcheng's words.

Instead, they said with a grin, "We are all Cultivators who entered the Danger Zone to seek Opportunities. After helping each other, shouldn't we split the treasures we obtained equally?"