Heavenly Dao Engine
Chapter 1111 - 1111 0651 Quit While Youre Ahead_1

Chapter 1111: Chapter 0651: Quit While You’re Ahead_1 Chapter 1111: Chapter 0651: Quit While You’re Ahead_1 Chapter 0651: Know When to Stop

“If you don’t want others to know, you shouldn’t do it at all. Whether you were the one to gather the five Princes or whether you meddled in the process, and whether you engaged in some unsightly deeds, time will tell us everything,” Shen Ziyu said in a mocking tone, his demeanor filled with utter disdain for Qi Tian.

Qi Tian had never met Shen Ziyu before and did not understand why Shen Ziyu was targeting him like this. He was not at all provoked by Shen Ziyu’s words and simply responded with a faint smile, “Mr. Shen, you’re right, time indeed proves everything. It will also show that I have no intentions of being an enemy to Manager Chen, and even the Princes would prefer to live in peace with Manager Chen. The Saint’s Tomb is vast enough for all of us to enjoy without interfering with each other.”

Shen Ziyu had wanted to take advantage of Qi Tian’s youthful vigor, hoping to provoke him into acting rashly, thus giving Shen a justified reason to retaliate. In doing so, he could not only take the initiative but also gauge Qi Tian’s capabilities, and if needed, he could severely injure, cripple, or even kill Qi Tian if he seemed to be a threat. However, he soon realized that he had underestimated Qi Tian, who remained completely unaffected by his provocations.

Shen Ziyu snorted coldly, “Qi Tian, what do you think you are? You even dare put yourself on the same level as Manager Chen. How could you be qualified to be an enemy of our manager? It’s a downright joke. You don’t know your own weight. Do you think you are a Flood Dragon in the sky? Don’t flatter yourself, you are nothing but a worm in the mud; if our manager wishes, he could crush you under his foot at any moment.”

Shen Ziyu’s demeaning words toward Qi Tian became increasingly excessive and explicit, essentially verging on publicly insulting Qi Tian without giving him any face.

Emperor Jianwu immediately showed a look of shame and anger. He believed they had always been making concessions to Manager Chen, neither in actions nor in words had they offended Manager Chen’s side. However, as Manager Chen’s subordinate, Shen Ziyu first intercepted them, then injured both Emperor Bahuang and the Huoyang Emperor, and was now, in front of him, utterly humiliating Qi Tian—how could he bear it?

Just as Emperor Jianwu was about to take action, Qi Tian timely sent him a telepathic message, “Lord Jianwu, we can’t strike first, at least not us. Don’t forget, if you hit the small ones, the big ones will come. Moreover, even if it’s this ‘small’ one, if you go up and fight him, you won’t even know how you died.”

Qi Tian’s message, like a bucket of cold water, doused the agitated Emperor Jianwu with a sudden chill, instantly calming him down. Among the five Princes, Emperor Bahuang was the strongest, but even he was no match for Shen Ziyu. And now, Emperor Bahuang was still not far away, meditating and healing; if he were to confront Shen Ziyu, his fate would be even worse. Moreover, Shen Ziyu, who had lured them in by sparring with Emperor Bahuang and the Huoyang Emperor, probably hadn’t used his full strength or lethal force. But things were different now. Shen had lured him and Qi Tian here, no longer bound by any constraints. Once they fought, it was highly likely that Shen would ignore any damage and strike to kill; at that point, even preserving his own life might become an impossible task.

Shen Ziyu, with his very insulting language, had been attacking Qi Tian for a while, only to find that Qi Tian remained largely unresponsive. However, relying on his profound cultivation, Shen could sense Qi Tian was using telepathy with Emperor Jianwu. Although he couldn’t be sure of the exact content, the fact that it was happening was enough for him to infer quite a lot.

If not for this telepathic exchange, Shen could attribute Qi Tian’s lack of reaction to cowardice or fear, but with the telepathy, Shen preferred to think of Qi Tian’s behavior as enduring humiliation while biding his time.

In Shen Ziyu’s eyes now, Qi Tian was like a lurking viper, always ready to seize the moment, to leap out fiercely at the enemy, to sink his fangs into their flesh and inject his stored lethal venom, achieving a fatal strike.

Shen Ziyu would never allow such an event to occur. He preferred to eliminate threats in their budding stage, even if those were merely his conjectures, he still chose to extinguish them. Even if his judgment was wrong, he would persist. “Better to kill a thousand by mistake than to let one go,” that was his principle. As for the injustice of it all, it wasn’t within his range of consideration—it wasn’t him who was being killed, after all.

Shen Ziyu ceased his verbal disparagement of Qi Tian and scrutinized him again. Upon seeing that Qi Tian still had no extreme reaction, Shen became even more resolved to eliminate him. He said, “Qi Tian, Emperor Jianwu, I am here to convey my manager’s goodwill, in hopes of preventing you from entering the Saint’s Tomb on a foolhardy journey to your deaths. I would hate for my manager’s rare act of kindness to be in vain, if his good intentions are misinterpreted as nonsense, it would be quite a loss of face for my manager. Therefore, I have decided that I will stand in the middle of the road now. If you want to pass this way and go to the Saint’s Tomb, you’ll have to step over my dead body. Otherwise, roll back to wherever you came from.”