Azure Heaven Saber
Chapter 855 - 855 294 Deal 2 in 1

Chapter 855: Chapter 294: Deal! [2 in 1] Chapter 855: Chapter 294: Deal! [2 in 1] “How was I supposed to know what to do…”

Feng Yin felt a secret delight.

Damn, he’s backing down? As long as he does, it’s all good!

In my two lifetimes, with the ultimate talisman in my hands, if I can’t handle a silkworm and make you yield, I might as well quit early!

I can’t afford to lose that face!

The Illusory Silkworm really had no other choice by then, its energy fading and its speech incoherent as it asked, “If you don’t even know what to do… what do you want me to do? Don’t tell me you weren’t here to save someone? The little favor you mentioned, wasn’t it to save those two?”

By now, Feng Yin knew it was almost done.

He figured he’d backed the Illusory Silkworm into a corner, where it was at his mercy.

To push further might backfire; indeed, it’s the very concept of backlash when things go to extremes!

If the Illusory Silkworm were to completely lose hope and think, “If I can’t have it, nobody else will,” would I even still be alive?

There’s no doubt that if the Illusory Silkworm wanted me dead, even the united front of the Cat Emperor and Elder Peng wouldn’t save me!

My frail body, how could it withstand even a gentle swipe of the Illusory Silkworm’s thread?!

But the act must go on, and Feng Yin feigned suspicion as he asked, “Are you really not the one who sent assassins after me? Robbed me? It truly wasn’t you?”

“It really wasn’t! If it were me, may lightning strike me down this very moment!”

The Illusory Silkworm swore through gritted teeth; if it had a face, it would undoubtedly be contorted with near-breakdown ferocity!

“But it was too strange back then, as soon as I left the Three Realms Trade Fair, I was attacked the moment I stepped out. That fair creates a separate space, and everyone enters at different points; it’s not exactly an easy place to stage an ambush…”

Feng Yin had some knowledge of psychology, not much but enough to know he couldn’t immediately let bygones be bygones.

Instead, he had to voice his doubts and grievances, recount what happened, and only after the past negativity had been successfully projected onto someone else in discussions…

only then it would be nearly done.

And only then could cooperation proceed without lingering suspicion and naturally lead to success.

But if I were to agree to cooperate too eagerly now, my interests would inevitably be harmed.

I had to use the Illusory Silkworm’s current desperation to ‘clear its name’ to my advantage and press my victory.

It was only after this that Feng Yin finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Done!

The constant jumbled words, iterating ‘assassination, robbery,’ were applied pressure on the Illusory Silkworm.

Because it wasn’t the Illusory Silkworm that did those things.

But apart from that, Feng Yin had no other excuse to leverage against it—after all, it hadn’t wronged you, so how could you blame it?

The seemingly ‘neurotic’ nagging that Feng Yin consciously displayed was actually instilling in the Illusory Silkworm the impression that this guy might be unstable.

And the Illusory Silkworm’s previously haughty attitude was being eroded through repeated nagging encounters—once Feng Yin ran out of things to say, he’d start nagging!

It’s the same idea as the phrase ‘you’ve been hit by a monkey.’

Being hit by a monkey might be true, but being blamed for things it never did? Assassination, robbery—none of those were done by the Illusory Silkworm. Pure slander and injustice.

Who could tolerate that? The Illusory Silkworm certainly didn’t want to endure this nagging any longer, so it had to give in.

As a result, when they finally reached an agreement, all the leverage would be in Feng Yin’s hands.

That was the greatest use of all that nagging.

You think Feng Yin loves to ramble so much?

But to deal with the Illusory Silkworm, other than this relentless pressure, Feng Yin hadn’t even seen its true form yet! What other strategy could there be?

[Some people complain about all the nagging being filler, and there are quite a few, so I specifically added this long explanation. For example, if I just wrote: After constant nagging by Feng Yin, the Illusory Silkworm finally changed its attitude and they reached an agreement. These few sentences could easily summarize two chapters. So, to those people, what are you actually seeing? Do you see the plot developing? Yes, the plot is rapidly touched on and it moves to the next scene, like a single line from an outline—is that what you want to read? This is a novel, not a history book. Of course, there’s some fluff; how else would you write a book? Heh heh…]

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When the Illusory Silkworm sensed Feng Yin’s tone finally softening, a weight lifted from its heart.

This stubborn fool was finally relenting a little, it wasn’t easy.

It was lucky it needed something from me, or with his unreasonable demeanor before, the energy of the Great Dao would have been hopeless…

So, it quickly continued to push, deepening the mental exchange, “What actually happened then? Tell me the details…”

“At the trade fair, I didn’t notice anyone paying attention to me, and I didn’t even go out much… How did I become a target? And to be chased down… But I didn’t make contact with anyone there, and as for high-level cultivators, you were the only one I dealt with…”

“As a small fry like me, what reason would there be to mobilize so many experts against me?! Tell me, how could I not suspect you? How could I not be convinced it was your doing?”