AIP - Chapter 128: Close-Quarters Combat

"So that's how it was…"

In the Cloud Marsh, Gu Changqing let out a long sigh.

He looked at Tang Jie in disbelief. "Even now, I still somewhat can't believe that all of this was thought up by a teenager. Are you really seventeen?"

"Miracles are miracles because they defy common sense," Tang Jie said with a laugh. "I was so certain that my lie could deceive them because of this. In other words, if I were thirty-seven instead of seventeen, my lies wouldn't have been effective."

That was true.

The two lies aimed at Godhead Palace and the Basking Moon Sect had targeted the fact that Tang Jie was seventeen and had the knowledge a normal teenager was supposed to have. Without this condition, the entire scheme would appear like a clumsy farce.

"But this plan carries many inherent risks. After all, in our hands, you can't possibly decide what we do and don't do. What if we didn't do as you planned and search for the box? What would you do then?"

Tang Jie replied, "A truly good plan doesn't force the enemy into following the plan. Rather, no matter what the enemy does, they can never escape the plan. Thus, in my design, I never needed you to find the box. It was simply one of many possible scenarios."

"Oh? Then tell me: if I didn't do that, what then?" Gu Changqing said, his interest piqued.

He was Eagle Master of the Hawk Hall, and the kind of person he interacted with the most in his life was criminals. Tang Jie had drawn his interest and made him very curious.

"I would let you run," Tang Jie replied. "So long as you still wanted the Martial Mirror, you wouldn't be able to kill me or leave Sageheart. With these two crucial points in mind, I essentially had you by the throat. It didn't matter what you did. While having you attack would make you expose Godhead Palace's spies, so would covering your escape. It's just a matter of how many people died. Even if the Basking Moon Sect wouldn't notice anything from this, I had other means of clueing them in… Don't forget that I sent out that box in front of Lin Dongsheng."

"Then Zh

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It was all a part of Gu Changqing's scheme! He knew Tang Jie was plotting something this entire time!

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Aspiring to the Immortal Path Chapter 128: Close-Quarters Combat

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