"Why didn't you just straight up blow the building?" Yin Shan asked.
Ye Tian Yan pursed his lips, "If the building just blew up for no reason, people would have been more curious about the incident."
"And we don't want curious people. Also, it was easier to blow up the building once the girl was dead."
"How?" The Elder frowned.
Ye Tian Yun didn't reply with the truth, "It was an intuition, Elder. When I moved in, I had only planned to kill the tavern owner and then blow the building - the Heaven Sect Disciples would have come under the collateral damage."
"However, it seemed that they had placed quite a lot of arrays throughout the tavern. Thus I chose to target the girl in order to distract the disciple from the Heaven Oracle Sect and blow the building."
"What about the other disciples? There were two male disciples." Yin Shan asked.
Ye Tian Yun smiled, "Actually, the girl was the second disciple. She disguised herself as a man in front of the public."
"Alright, so what's the next step?" the Elder asked everyone.
Ye Tian Yun cleared his throat and said, "I will kidnap Kai Yang (also, Yang Kai) as soon as he comes out of the tavern."
"What if he doesn't?" The Elder asked.
Ye Tian Yun shook his head, "Elder, they will definitely come out because amongst them is someone with a high Spirit Sense - that disciple must have already sensed the arrays lying throughout the city."
"Even though most of them are now useless, they don't know about this fact."
"So, he will definitely bring someone with him and go out to investigate."
"Hm," The Elder nodded his head, "That will be a really good chance. However, are you sure you will be able to bring Kai Yang alive? We can't let him die, or else we will lose the Token Of Fate."
"You guys may not know it, but Token Of Fate won't simply appear in front of you just by killing its holder. I will make the arrangements to extract the Token from Kai Yang, so he must not be harmed."
Hearing the Elder's words, Ye Tian Yun couldn't help but inwardly roll back his eyes.
'Special method to take out the Token? Bullshit. The Token will appear as soon as its holder dies. Anyways, Kai Yang is not the possessor, but he will have to die, so there's no variable left. As for this old man… he just wants the Token for himself.'
It didn't take more than two brain cells to sense the excitement and see the plot behind the Elder's words.
From the expression of Jie Lei Shan and Yin Shan, they too had understood that there was something wrong.
Ye Tian Yun though disdained the old man, but he still gave him a respectful bow, "I understand, Elder."
The Elder nodded his head and asked, "Before you go, tell me, are you sure the Gracious Sword Sect disciples won't be suspicious of last night's incident?"
Ye Tian Yun replied with a smile, "They will think it was just a normal assassination plot. After all, the world doesn't revolve around them."
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"I am telling you, this was just a normal assassination plot. The world doesn't revolve around us."
In a lavish tavern within the Silver Mist City, a group of young people was arguing amongst themselves.
"Yes," Another boy replied, "I agree with Xiao Ming's words. Everything is kept a secret, and why would our enemies blow up a random tavern? It's not like we're hiding. The whole city knows about us. It's not hard to find us."
These were the disciples from Gracious Sword Sect, for whom the Zheng Clan had arranged this tavern.
If Ye Tian Yun were here, he would have definitely laughed at this sight.
What he had thought, his enemy, Xiao Ming, had thought of the same thing, thus indirectly helping him for the nth time.
And Jun Xie agreed with Xiao Ming.
A rare occasion.
"I guess we're worrying over nothing then?" Yuan Shuchun said.
Jun Xie nodded his head, "Actually, we're worried about the wrong thing."
"Hm?" Yuan Shuchun frowned, "What do you mean?"
Jun Xie pursed his lips and said, "When we entered the city, I observed something."
"What?" Xiao Ming asked.
Jun Xie moved towards the window, overlooking the city below him; he said, "This whole city is covered with arrays."
"What!?" Everyone was shocked by this revelation.
"Who would be this idiot to waste so many resources!?" The usually silent Kai Yang shouted.
The reaction was expected. After all, to cover the whole city with arrays… it would take resources equalling to Gracious Sword Sect's wealth. Even then, it wouldn't fully suffice.
"Is it done by the Wu Kingdom?" Yuan Shuchun suggested.
Everyone felt this was a valid answer. After all, it wouldn't be a big deal for a kingdom to cover a city with arrays, not to forget that their princess is also going to pass through this city.
"What should we do?" Xiao Ming asked.
Jun Xie let out a sigh, "I am not worried about the arrays being put here by the Wu Kingdom. What I am worried about is - what if a third party did this?"
"What if we're not the only ones to come after the Wu Kingdom princess? What if there's someone else waiting for us to act as a meat shield?"
His words silenced everyone. They had nothing to refute his doubts and suspicions. In fact, considering a few factors, his suspicions even seemed quite right.
"We have to go out." Yuan Shuchun suggested.
"Go out?" Kai Yang frowned, "Didn't you just hear what Brother Jun Xie said? Sister Yuan, what if we get ambushed by the enemy?"
Yuan Shuchun shook her head, "We won't. The enemy, if there is one, will definitely want us to act as a meat shield and will attack at the last moment to steal the reward - Wu Qingwu."
"Therefore, we must go out.. We need to prepare an escape route - we need a path that doesn't have the arrays and can safely take us out of the city."