The meeting was silent after those first exchanges.

An Bai sighed with exasperation, she looked at Bain Bengwan and extended her both hands in a 'why' gesture.

"Humiliation? That's not necessary!" AN by said.

Her eyes bore down a hole on him "Why are you complicating something so simple!?"

An Bai, broke eyes contact and looked away, before continuing.

"I-I just said it. Our reputation is at stake too, if we're going to finish her, it must be in a way that shows, she was never our opponents, to begin with. To show that we share no similarities with her. we need to find a method that'll invalidate her past-deeds too."

He stumbled on his words and kept looking around while speaking.

The amusement on Gao Fang's eye grew thicker. When Bain Bengwan looked at him, he gave him a slight nod, too small for others to notice. But just enough to boost Bain Bengwan's confidence.

An Bai held her temple as if only hearing him was already giving her a headache. "This is really something, a person stupid and incompetent like you would want. ugh, god. To think people put you on the same standard as I am."

His gut suffered damage, his eyes twitched unceasingly. Bain Bengwan felt like a frog was stuck on his throat.

Gao Fang coughed and covered his mouth, his cough at first seemed to be to gather attention but he only wanted to hide his smile. Seeing Bain bangwan squirming was too hilarious.

'But better not overdo it with him, so as to avoid boredom.'

Gao fang turned his gaze with An Bai.

"Are you going to speak or not? You're wasting my time here." She said. And his polite smile arched upwards.

"How's your sister, An Bai? I heard she reached the Divine realm. must b great to have somebody like her beside you."

The arrogant woman went stiff for a second. Then she smiled, "Yes, she's truly above our level, My clan is blessed for her."

Chao Cheng and Xa Dayu nodded along. Even Bain Bengwan added, "Yes, An Bu is really special, to gain the inheritance and soar so hight it can only be destiny."

Again, Gao Feng observed with glee as An Bai's stance went stiffer by the second, He amused himself and at the same time was admired. others didn't know, but he knew what transpired between those sisters, he was a good friend of An Bu after all, and one thing they had in common, was seeing people squirm helplessly around them. That woman stole everything from An Bai, righteously, and managed to torture and repress her younger sister, since then. to top it off, she did it, by manipulating and convincing An Bai, so the girl couldn't voice her grievances as she allowed An Bu to take everything that was supposed to be hers. Even now, she became dazed with confusion about her sister's words.

Gao Feng laughed inwardly. then sighed regretfully. He must keep up the real business now.

"I agree with both of you," He said and looked at An Bai. "We should obtain the maximum amount of profit from Zhi Rui" The he turned to Bain Bengwan, "And yes, we also should clean the stain that she is to us"

He answered both directly. making Bain Bengwan feels included.

"Y-yes! Z-Zhi Rui." An Bai snapped back to reality and added, in a second she became herself again.

Her eagerness to change subjected made Gao Fang took two breaths to hold back a chuckle.

When the subject went back to Zhi Rui, Xa Dayu went back to scribbling on the valuable wood, and Chao Cheng turned his eyes to her drawings.

Wich made Gao Fang's eyes twitch. "What do both of you think?"

"I don't care" Cho cheng answered. and Xia Bayu didn' bother to opend her mouth.

An Bai stomped the ground "Then we'll decide everything ourselves.

Gao Fang, you agreed with both of us. I'm guessing you have a plan?"

"I do, I suggest we fatten up the pig than we kill it."

His analogy was crude. But conveyed the plan completely.

The other two looked on with attention. as he elaborated. "I can ask for more days of live transmissions, this way Zhi Rui will be able to roam with her subordinates through the area hunting freely. Also, soon, the Dao protectors will clean a larger area on the surroundings. While we five hunt in five different areas. we let Zhi Rui hunt on the one left, when we take her down, we just share her part equally, this way we avoid wasting time and gain more benefit because of it

His words rang a chime on the other two's head.

"But how will we invalidate her as a person?" Bain Bengwas asked.

"Promiscuity." Gao Feng said. Astounding the other two, even Choa Cheng and Xa Dayu looked at him.

Gao Fang smiled and took a sip of the cup of spring tea.

"Zhi Rui's reputation is nearly immaculate. She cultivated it well, between the disciples I gathered, weeding out envy and jealously feelings, what was left, was only good things about Zhi Rui. Nobody had bad things to say of Zhi Rui, some showed clear signs of worshipping. But, Zhi Rui committed a mistake with the message she sent us."

Bain Bengwan looked confused. An Bai sighed. "He's talking about the day she went to dinner with Chao Cheng, she wore loose, showy clothes, to visit a man. That was a declaration that defamation wouldn't work against her." After explaining, she looked to Gao Fang. "And I"m pretty sure she meant it, how you'll make it work?"

"Rumors without a proof won't work. But once we have her in our hands, we can tell any story." He said. "Zhi Rui has created a precedent with that dinner clothing. Today, every disciple takes bad rumors of Zhi Rui as nothing but talk, since she's too high in their regard. But we only need to prove one single, a small stain of dirt on her robe, then every action she does will be filled with mud. Her prestige will fall, and we'll be seen in another light. By them our repu-"

"HAHA!" Chao Cheng's voice thundered through the room.

Gao Fang was bothered to bu cut off but looked at the laughing man holding his belly.

"Is there a problem?"

But Chao Cheng ignored and looked a the complete drawing in front of Xa Dayu.

He looked at her in the eyes, "Which one is my future?"

There were three squares, each with a different image, but in all of them, there was Choa Cheng, ina scenery.

"These are possible futures, and not definitive. all decisions you make while in this world will lead to one of these three endings or something else entirely, but that only happens when you don't choose at all."

Xa Dayu explained.

Chao Cheng one more time looked at the images of his possible futures, He laughed out loud again. and got up. "Girl, you can ask me any a suitable payment for it." He looked at the other three. "You can do what you whatever, but don't involve me."

His wings suddenly spread and he swung them sending a torrent of wind away. Laughing, he flew away.

All eyes stayed on the silly smiling Xa Dayu.

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"Thomas, Why is Xa Dayu here? The last time I heard of her, she was locked up in her own room, left to die. She was the waste in her family, scorned by everyone, how come she's suddenly a genius of alchemy?"

The subordinate who gave up attaching himself to a name took a crystal ball and handed it to Bianca.

They were five kilometers away from the geniuses. Bianca was watching and hearing everything from the distance. She touched the handed Crystal ball and the information came to her mind, for a second her eyes went blank with astonishment. She looked a ther subordinate wide-eyed.

"Take a look a this. this girl just gave me the chills!"

Her level five subordinate took it back and received the information fully.

Xa Dayu, was the talentless waste of the chu clan. The actions of disdain and bullying towards her escalated continuously with time. Her father and mother didn't act in any way to help her. letting the girl to her own devices. Alone she would lock herself in the small servant room she was assigned to, and never left, her hair grew without tending, so did her nails. she stopped eating and just laid down on her bed all day, regardless of warnings or punishments, she showed no reaction. It soon became a game for younger people. They started competing, on what could they do to take a reaction out of her.

The deeds went form dumping fresh manure over her and the bed to releasing disgusting insects on her body.

But one day. when they took random beggars on the street to do whatever with her. She reacted. She killed the beggers and her servants, and crippled her cousins and walked off, disappearing for a whole year.

When she came back, She somehow enslaved her father and mother, killed her older brother and finished enslaving all the other relatives. She was the genius with the lesser background of the five, but her strength was undeniable. so the light sect chose to send her.

After seeing everything. The subordinated took deep breaths. Bianca and the cult of Lust was one of the few organizations that could get that kind of information, not even the light sect know of her deeds.

Bianca chukled eerily.

"Gao Fang; A high-functioning smiling psychopath. Bain Bengwan a misogynistic man with a desire for destruction. An Bai; an arrogant Young lady with a ruthless heart and cruel desires. Chao Cheng an ambitious competent ma. and at last, Xa Dayu, the freak."

Bianca laughed out loud, "Every single one of them is a real, deadly monster. Oh my dear daughter, you really have a trait that attracts freak!"

Bianca laughed out loud