Yin Meng used a rope to hang the painting, with a handle in the middle, allowing the painting to slowly rotate before everyone.

Li Zhiyuan: "It's not River Walker, the lion spirit gave a warning, and I suspect someone's plotting against us."

Tan Wenbin: "Who could it be? We've always been kind to others and really don't have any enemies."

This is the advantage of seeking revenge based on the household registration.

When you think about enemies, it's easy to use the process of elimination because most are ruled out.

Li Zhiyuan: "It might not be targeting me personally or the group; it might be aimed at the Qin Liu family. Uncle Qin's failure in River Walker was indeed due to someone else's scheming."

Run Sheng took a heavy drag of his cigarette, determined to avenge his master's grudge.

Tan Wenbin pressed his lips and asked, "Should we report it to the Old Madam?"

The forces bold enough to act against the Qin and Liu Families' River Walker definitely aren't ordinary; typical sect or family wouldn't dare.

Moreover, since this time has no connection to River Walker, nor involving its cause and effect, the Old Madam can take action.

Li Zhiyuan: "Although the Qin and Liu Families have dwindled in numbers, if the Old Madam really gets angry and brings Uncle Qin and Aunt Liu, they can still make outsiders wary.

Uncle Qin's failure in River Walker was indeed due to others' conspiracy, but the Old Madam might only guess a few families that could have acted without pinpointing the exact one.

This should be the competitive tacit understanding and underlying rules among the Dragon King families.

I believe, since the other party dared to make a move, they would naturally handle the details cleanly, leaving no traces or slip-ups.

Now, telling the Old Madam this matter isn't necessary."

Li Zhiyuan's face showed a glimmer of pain as he said this.

Luckily, in the dim light and smoke haze, combined with his timely bowing of his head, it went unnoticed.

From a purely rational perspective, reporting it to the Old Madam was the right thing to do.

Back then, the Old Madam endured Uncle Qin's incident and kept silent; now, as she's grown older, she values herself more than she did Uncle Qin back then, making it impossible for her to choose tolerance again.

So, telling the Old Madam about this would leave her with only one choice: to bring Uncle Qin and Aunt Liu to confront those forces that might have acted and provoke a desperate struggle.

Not knowing exactly which family did it doesn't matter, randomly pick a scapegoat, and the Old Madam, Uncle Qin, and Aunt Liu must sacrifice at least one to bite a piece off that family forcibly.

In this way, it would make other families wary, thus scaring off the hand trying to probe.

For the already fallen Dragon King's Court of the Qin Liu, this is the only solution.

The murderous intent shown by the Old Madam during the day when listening to Alii and me play the zither actually signifies this intention of hers, she's already preparing to sacrifice herself.

Suppressing this "correct" approach and starting to act on emotions made Li Zhiyuan feel pained.

In an instant, he remembered Li Lan's expression when washing her hands, a loathing of "stupid thinking."

To relieve his inner struggle, Li Zhiyuan started looking for new self-consistency in logic.

That is if the Old Madam did this, it would trigger another possibility, making those forces re-realize the extraordinary nature of this generation's River Walkers from the Qin and Liu families, making it even less likely for them to rise again and restore the court.

Therefore, that hand might not only not retract but also more hands may reach toward us.

Moreover, it's not ruled out the possibility of some second-tier forces under the Dragon King family wanting to take advantage of this situation, stirring up trouble to cause internal friction in the Dragon King family, aiming to make room and opportunity for themselves.

In the past, the Qin or Liu family, facing such matters, had more ways, even without needing to act themselves, within the same circle just passing word to defuse it.

But now, the Old Madam has too few cards to play, making her play order easy to predict.

Sigh...

Li Zhiyuan let out a breath, feeling relieved.

Lin Shuyou curiously asked, "Can you just kill like this directly?"

Tan Wenbin explained, "Generally, no. River Walker represents the Righteous Path, those wanting to kill a River Walker must either have a direct cause or consequence that's understandable, or pay an equivalent price.

Like Zhao Yi back then, as long as he kept shouting about defending the Righteous Path, we couldn't deal with this competitor early."

Lin Shuyou: "Would they be willing to pay a great price to deal with us?"

Tan Wenbin pointed at the painting: "If they were willing, why didn't they just send a few real experts directly, instead of creating something like this?"

Upon hearing this, Li Zhiyuan suddenly raised his head, his eyes sharp.

"Everyone, I suspect my calculations were wrong from the start."

Everyone present froze upon hearing this, so much so that even the "cigar ash" in Run Sheng's hand fell off.

Everyone had been used to calmly handling any situation under Xiao Yuan's extraordinary intelligence and foresight, and this was the first time Xiao Yuan had denied himself when things had just begun.

"That hand is far more intelligent than we imagined.

I don't know if there's another Dragon King family behind that hand, but since it dares to reach out, it implies its confidence, at least thinking it's not inferior to the current Qin Liu family.

This is my first time feeling the foundation of the Dragon King family."

Li Zhiyuan's mouth revealed a smile.

The opponent's planning level is very high, this kind of opponent didn't make the young man feel scared but instead excited him internally.

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