Azure Heaven Saber
Chapter 873 - 873 299 The Eaglet Arrives Two in One

Chapter 873: Chapter 299: The Eaglet Arrives [Two in One] Chapter 873: Chapter 299: The Eaglet Arrives [Two in One] “Place a bet?”

Feng Yin pondered momentarily, then said, “Haven’t I already placed my bets by supporting Wu Tiejun and Great Qin with so many medicinal pills and items?”

“Of course not.”

Dong Xiaoyan said, “That could be considered a grudge within the martial world, or it could be seen as your personal friendship with the military of Great Qin. Because you have always been at the rear of the post-war scene, not directly involved in the war. Even if involved, it’s always been during the healing phase after the war has ended.”

“Similarly, all spy warfare, including the assassination attempt on Wu Tiejun last time, as well as the unrest in Yuezhou City, belong to the level of covert warfare. In reality, such level of combat, at most, only causes chaos in one party, and it can’t even be considered as stirring up half a city. It doesn’t benefit or weaken the nation’s fate in any way.”

“Therefore, what you’ve been doing doesn’t count as placing a bet. Otherwise, even if the other countries’ powers don’t hold you accountable, Nine Colors Supreme will come after you.”

Dong Xiaoyan said, “Although the medicines you donated can not only bring the dead back to life but are also in huge quantities, which preserved the military power of Yuezhou that should have been depleted, it can still be attributed to gifts between friends. In the end, it hasn’t reached the upper echelons of Great Qin, at least not so far. No imperial decree or award has been issued in your name, and moreover… as far as I know, you haven’t activated either the Rainbow Heavenly Clothes or the badge of the Dark Guards that you possess. It can be said that you’ve made the right decision by accident, a stroke of luck.”

“And this state also precludes the reason for the upper echelons of other countries to trouble you. What you have done is simply a wandering martial artist who has come across a few official friends with whom he sees eye to eye and offered some help, which is very different from the resource sharing among officials.”

“Even now, if you enter the Qin camp and deliver medicinal pills to Wu Tiejun without getting involved in anything else, it can still be considered a gift from a friend. How Wu Tiejun uses the gift from his friend afterwards is his own private action and has nothing to do with you. Even if Great Qin is defeated later and suffers fortune backlash, it might affect you, but not significantly. Conversely, if the Qin Army maintains much of its strength because of your gift, the main reason is still the leadership of Wu Tiejun and his private resources benefiting his subordinates. The ties and consequences related to you are minimal, almost negligible.”

“But if you directly participate in the assassination, the meaning and result would be entirely different; it’s equivalent to forcibly involving yourself in the wars between countries, and then you would no longer be able to extract yourself.”

Dong Xiaoyan said, “So you need to think it over carefully.”

Feng Yin smiled lightly and said, “I’m not burdened by so many entanglements, so I might as well just do what I believe is right.”

“I knew you’d choose this.”

Dong Xiaoyan pouted her lips.

Because with Feng Yin’s choice, Dong Xiaoyan’s position became awkward.

She couldn’t conveniently take action, not to mention that she herself belonged to the Heavenly Sword Cloud Palace, the daughter of the palace master, and was already designated as the successor of the Heavenly Sword Cloud Palace.

If she were to take action along with Feng Yin, it would be equivalent to declaring her stance, plainly stating that the Cloud Palace stood with Qin country.

In that case, regardless of victory or defeat, it would be beyond her capacity to bear, and it was not a matter for her alone.

Such a decision was not hers to make.

Not only was she not qualified, but her own judgment also forbade her from making such a choice!

Similarly, Jiao Sansheng couldn’t take action either.

He was one of the strongest within the Jiao Clan. Outsiders wouldn’t care whether he had long since left the Jiao Clan; they would only consider his choice as the stance of the Jiao Clan, or at least a tendency.

And, in truth, he wasn’t Emperor Jiao. He had neither the right nor the position to represent Emperor Jiao in making decisions for the entire Jiao Clan.

Let alone the idea of a demon clan powerhouse rashly intervening in the internal wars of humans, which would be equivalent to the demon clan involving itself in the fate of human nations. The backlash would be even more severe, and this backlash would need to be borne by Jiao Sansheng himself. Jiao Sansheng knew all too well… that he couldn’t do it!

If Dong Xiaoyan and Jiao Sansheng were destined to stand back from this battle, then Feng Yin’s choices needed to be all the more cautious.

It’s not so remarkable to be a Heavenly Level cultivator; in the midst of battle, even top-tier Heavenly Level powerhouses, once surrounded by a large army, would exhaust their strength and perish. There have been clear examples of this in the past, almost too many to count. With Feng Yin’s merely entry-level Heavenly Level stature, he honestly wouldn’t make much of a difference!

“The situation is such now, if you’re hell-bent on joining the battle, we two can only cover you from the sidelines, but cannot lend a hand.”

Dong Xiaoyan sighed with helplessness and said, “But if you feel overwhelmed and manage to find a way to escape, that’s what’s important. We’ll surely come to assist you, as long as we don’t directly thwart the high-end military power of the other two nations, the consequences involved wouldn’t amount to much.”

“…”

Feng Yin said with a speechless expression, “How did you come up with all this stuff? Don’t tell me you summarized all of it yourself, because I won’t believe it!”

“You think this is simple?”

Dong Xiaoyan rolled her eyes and said, “This is the distilled wisdom gleaned from countless predecessors’ trials with countless lives and the decline of numerous sects over millions of years. Every seemingly useless statement has absolute correctness in this context, with no room for any rebuttal!”

Feng Yin couldn’t help but admire her and no longer dared to tease Dong Xiaoyan with words.

He had to admit, such wisdom wasn’t easy to come by. How many rises and falls had to be experienced to summarize this knowledge so correctly and so objectively?

“I reckon you won’t be heading there alone,” Dong Xiaoyan said. “Since Supreme Mountain has entered the fray, it proves that the competitors of Supreme Mountain will also take part. This entry into the conflict is a gamble itself. If Supreme Mountain succeeds because of this, it will leave its competitors far behind. And its competitors, how could they just stand by.”