Starting My Cultivation With Time Management

Chapter 757: Chapter 91 Jiang the Witch’s Sudden Brainwave

Although the atmosphere on site was very heated due to the lure of benefits, as if they were about to attack Kunlun the next second,

in reality, the Asura Path’s Demon Kong Shangren didn’t fall for this at all. He just sneered throughout, waiting to watch everyone’s performance before returning to the Asura Path—to continue waiting for the Nether Ghost Path to make an offer.

It was nothing but sticking to the original plan in the face of myriad changes, relying on the unique position of Iron City Mountain, insisting on biting off a piece of flesh from the Six Paths Alliance.

If it hadn’t been for Wei Dongliu’s incredible foresight and strategic planning… they might have had to agree, after all, the overall situation is what matters, and they would have had to put up with the annoyance.

Too bad for Asura Path, did you expect this? I’m just waiting for you to come begging for help, pathetic and pitiable, hahaha!

Wei Dongliu remained calm and composed, continuing to arrange the Guanzhong strategy.

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Based on the calculated timeline, by now, the decimated Kunlun surprise attack team should have returned to Kunlun, and Elder Yuan Shou should have already begun to forcefully clear things up.

Though they were clearing things up, everyone wasn’t a fool. The decline in prestige of the Zhao Family of Guyuan was inevitable, which conversely meant a significant increase in the influence of Qiu Changtian, enabling the strategy to mobilize a dual-front attack toward Iron City Mountain to pass.

With Qiu Changtian’s focus shifting to Iron City Mountain, Wei Dongliu naturally had to show his abilities on the Guanzhong front.

What does “two tigers cannot share one mountain” mean? This is what it means.

Like the previous confrontation at White Bone Divine Palace, where Wei Qiu played both sides against each other, he certainly did not want to experience that again.

After a few days, Wen Yang visited once more and was led by Jiang Lian into the inner hall.

“Alliance Leader Wei, Daoist Jiang,” she said gravely, “our inside agent at Kunlun has been caught… But before being captured, he managed to send back some interesting intelligence.”

“It is said that Kunlun is currently in internal conflict, with the current Sect Leader wanting to pass on the successor position to Changgeng True Person. However, the Zhao Family of Guyuan originally had their eyes set on the Sect Leader’s successor, and so they have started to confront Changgeng True Person and his backing, the Xu Family.”

“The previous plan to raid Mount Beimang was actually proposed by the Zhao Family of Guyuan. The reason being that Changgeng True Person advocated for holding Guanzhong, so the Zhao Family did the opposite and asked for a surprise attack.”

“I see,” Wei Dongliu revealed an “as expected, just as I thought” expression, “Internal strife in Kunlun, how interesting.”

Jiang Lian watched him from the side, noticing that her husband was not surprised at all, as if he had been confident this would happen. This made her wonder in her heart.

Could it be that my husband also secretly set up an agent from the Mortal Life Path within Kunlun without telling me?

Hmph! Usually, he dumps all internal affairs on me, and now that he’s become the Six Paths Alliance Leader, he’s suddenly gotten proactive in his undertakings!

Wen Yang, however, was full of worry as she spoke:

“Alliance Leader Wei, with Changgeng True Person already advocating for holding Guanzhong, now that the Zhao Family of Guyuan’s surprise attack has failed, Changgeng’s influence within the sect will certainly increase… Will Kunlun still send troops to Iron City Mountain?”

Wei Dongliu smiled lightly and said nonchalantly:

“Changgeng True Person is not a man of outdated thinking. The reason he previously proposed holding Guanzhong was simply due to a lack of alternatives. The Zhao Family of Guyuan came up with a fanciful idea of a surprise attack, and you all saw the result.”

“But with Iron City Mountain’s location being as it is, Changgeng True Person will not sit idly by. Defending Guanzhong is not just about being conservative, and attacking Iron City Mountain isn’t about being rash. There was simply no other choice.”

“I see,” Wen Yang seemed thoughtful and then smiled, “I feel that there’s a sense of stratagem between you, Alliance Leader Wei, and Changgeng True Person, both combining the advantages of time, location, and various pieces of intelligence to predict each other’s thinking and decisions.”

“Hmph,” Jiang Lian snorted and said, “I think that Changgeng True Person, even before taking on the role of Kunlun’s Sect Leader, is already being tripped up within Kunlun… He is not as capable as my husband.”

Having said this, she stealthily glanced at Wei Dongliu’s expression.

Wei Dongliu had no expression.

Logically speaking, when a wife defends her husband in front of others, her husband should feel happy.

But with such a flattering and trampling affair, especially when both sides were actually his own alternate accounts, Wei Dongliu found it quite hard to react and remained indifferent.

This indifference, in Wen Yang’s eyes, naturally became proof of the Great Alliance Leader Wei’s composure amidst turbulence. But to Jiang the Witch, it seemed strangely eerie.

She always had a subtle premonition that her husband Wei, the Demon Head, seemed to have the Changgeng True Person at his fingertips.

The prior predictions about the Kunlun Sect, when thought through carefully and deeply, were actually predictions about the thoughts and decisions of Changgeng True Person.

Could it be that her husband…

…had planted a spy in the ranks of Changgeng True Person!

Thinking it through, this seemed like the only possibility.

Wen Yang bought a Calming Pill from Wei Dongliu and, after consuming it, left at ease—she needed to communicate Wei Dongliu’s judgments to the Sect Leader Fu Xie and Honored White Bone, to adjust the next moves of the Nether Ghost Path.

However, Jiang Lian quickly went to another back hall upon her departure and summoned her sister with a wave of her hand.

“I have a task for you,” she said in a drawn-out voice, “I want all the information on Changgeng True Person from the Kunlun Taiqing Sect. Everything including his real name and surname, his family background, what type of person he is, his interpersonal relationships—gather everything for me.”

Days later, armed with the corresponding intelligence, Jiang the Witch began to study it meticulously.

Changgeng True Person, originally named Qiu Changtian, had a background not as mysteriously untraceable as Wei Dongliu’s but wasn’t that remarkable either—hailing from a remote frontier stronghold known as Yunzhou beyond the Great Wall.

Personality-wise, however, he was the exact opposite of Wei Dongliu: People said that before his Core Formation, even as the noble Direct Disciple of the Sect Leader, Qiu Changtian often led outer sect disciples on various missions and didn’t take extra rewards, earning the nickname “Generous and Righteous Chief Qiu.”

In contrast, Wei the Lazy Dog, who needed his wife to worry about his disciples, made Jiang the Witch feel a sudden and inexplicable sense of disappointment.

With his Daoist Heart Clarity, Qiu Changtian was chosen early on by the Xu Family of Southern Heaven, and before his Core Formation, he married the Phoenix Immortal, Xu Yinglian.

Thinking of how Xu Yinglian’s husband was shrewd and capable, and then considering her own husband, who never took charge of matters himself, Jiang the Witch felt increasingly discontented, and her impression of Xu Yinglian plummeted rapidly—jealousy sprouted from her heart and soon became nourishment for the Great Unrestrained Heavenly Demon.

In the end, although the Heavenly Demon enjoyed feeding on pursuit-driven emotions, they generally didn’t spawn joy, anger, sorrow, or happiness themselves.

Now, after being with Wei Dongliu for so long, Jiang Lian felt she was becoming more and more like a real person.

Continuing to read the intelligence, Jiang Lian learned that although Changgeng True Person was sociable, he had no close friends or confidants.

Including his time as Chief Disciple, when he taught and took disciples on behalf of his master, he basically stopped teaching after his Core Formation.

The only person who was always around him, even sharing his daily life, was his Daoist Companion, Xu Yinglian.

Could it be that the traitor is… no, no, no, what am I thinking!

However, Xu Yinglian only possesses the Seven Orifices Exquisite Heart, which unlike Qiu Changtian’s Daoist Heart Clarity, is almost not immune to the attack of the Heavenly Demon…

If I have my sister consume Xu Yinglian, wouldn’t I be able to maintain surveillance on Qiu Changtian?