Li Guanqi looked at Su Qiu, his eyes narrowing slightly as he spoke softly.

“Do you want to destroy Changfeng Manor?”

He had expected the woman to agree immediately, but to his surprise, Su Qiu shook her head.

She sighed lightly and then spoke softly.

“With just you, there’s no way to destroy Changfeng Manor.”

“The fact that you chose to sneak in proves you don’t have the strength to confront everyone head-on.”

“At first, I thought you were with Fang Yishan and had some hope.”

Li Guanqi keenly caught onto a piece of information and then asked.

“Why do you think if I were with Fang Yishan, there would be hope?”

“Is Fang Yishan also wary of Fang Zhongnan?”

At this, Li Guanqi paused slightly, his eyes filled with immense confidence as he stood up.

“For this question, you only need to nod or shake your head.”

Su Qiu looked up at Li Guanqi, her eyes full of complexity, and nodded slightly.

Li Guanqi’s lips curled into a faint, enigmatic smile.

Finally, he looked at Su Qiu and spoke softly, “Trust me.”

“One last question.”

Li Guanqi slowly leaned closer to the woman, the aggressive move catching Su Qiu off guard.

Under his night clothes, his beautiful eyes, though pure white, couldn’t hide the immense confidence in his gaze.

“Has Changfeng Manor captured someone?”

Su Qiu frowned slightly at his words, thought for a moment, and then shook her head, speaking softly.

“I don’t know…”

“Although I’m respected as the young mistress by outsiders, I’m still an outsider. No one would tell me such things.”

Li Guanqi nodded, said nothing more, and slipped out the door.

Along the way, he avoided four patrols and carefully returned to his room.

Seeing everyone asleep, he lay back on the shared bed and lit another stick of incense.

Just three breaths after lying down, shouting erupted outside the door!

“Damn it, these idiots are still sleeping!!”

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

“Get the hell up!!!”

The door was violently kicked open, and a burly man with a long knife at his waist stormed in, his face full of anger.

As soon as the man entered, he sniffed the air slightly, his brows furrowing.

Li Guanqi’s heart sank, thinking the man had discovered something.

But fortunately, the room was packed with over a dozen men, and the air was filled with the smell of sweat.

As the others woke up one after another, Li Guanqi pretended to groggily open his eyes.

“Wow… why did I sleep so well today?”

“Yeah, it was such a good sleep.”

“……”

Everyone got up, chattering, but then they saw the burly man with a grim face at the door.

Immediately, everyone was startled. This half-step Golden Elixir cultivator was their leader.

“Li Pei!!! Are you looking for death?! Don’t you know something big happened at the manor tonight? And you’re still sleeping!!”

Li Guanqi quickly got up and dressed, saying.

“Hey, boss, don’t be mad. The brothers have been too tired these past few days.”

“We just got back and slept a bit too deeply.”

The man couldn’t say much more and told them to get up and patrol.

Li Guanqi secretly laughed, scolding the others to hurry up.

After arranging the patrol positions, Li Guanqi took two men and started patrolling.

On the way, he pretended to receive a message, his face turning serious as he hurried off.

The two men under him didn’t think anything was wrong, assuming it was something important.

Li Guanqi hurried alone, showing no abnormality in the manor, and many people greeted him along the way.

He didn’t know their names and ignored them completely.

When he reached a deserted corner, he changed into his night clothes and calculated the time until dawn before disappearing into the night.

By morning, as patrols began, no one had noticed the recording stone placed at Fang Yishan’s door.

Li Guanqi had also spontaneously placed another recording stone at Fang Jin’s door, Fang Zhongnan’s father.

He even attached a note.

“I know everything about you!”

Back in his room, Li Guanqi followed the burly man’s orders and went out again to search for his group’s whereabouts.

Flying out of the manor, Li Guanqi tore off the human skin mask on his face, a faint, enigmatic smile appearing on his lips before he turned and disappeared into the vast mountains.

Taking out a jade slip, he transmitted a message, “Old Ye, how’s the situation on your side?”

Ye Feng quickly replied, “Old Third is currently in seclusion, and the Primordial Energy fluctuations are very obvious. It shouldn’t be long before he breaks through.”

“Boss, how’s your side? We didn’t dare to send you a message these past two days.”

After confirming their positions, Li Guanqi didn’t say much in the jade slip and headed straight towards them.

By noon, Li Guanqi found the cave where the two were.

They had dug it themselves, and occasional intense Primordial Energy fluctuations came from behind the simple stone door.

Seeing Li Guanqi return, Ye Feng immediately got up and asked, “How did it go?”

Li Guanqi sat down and smiled as he recounted the events of the previous night.

Ye Feng swallowed hard upon hearing it and couldn’t help but speak.

“Boss… you have some guts!”

“What you did is like putting Fang Yishan’s second brother on the hot seat!”

“But… from what you said, it seems Fang Yishan wouldn’t turn against Fang Zhongnan over such a small matter.”

Li Guanqi glanced at Cao Yan, who was about to break through, and spoke softly.

“Just this much is only enough to disgust Fang Yishan.”

“But it will plant a seed of distrust between the two.”

“As for the rest… we’ll have to give it a push!”

Ye Feng was still confused and asked, “A push? How?”

Buzz!!!

The spiritual energy in the surroundings became somewhat agitated, and the two quickly glanced at the cave’s depths before simultaneously darting outside.

Within a radius of hundreds of meters, the spiritual energy frantically surged towards the cave’s center, with fire-attribute spiritual energy being particularly active.

Li Guanqi spoke softly, “In my perception, Fang Yishan’s second brother doesn’t seem like a mid-stage Golden Elixir cultivator.”

“His perception is too sharp! If he were really just mid-stage, he wouldn’t have sensed my presence.”

“Moreover, I learned some things from Fang Hao’s wife, leading me to believe that the relationship between the two brothers is not harmonious!”

“In that case, let’s frame Fang Yishan’s second brother as wanting to seize the Manor Lord’s position!”

Ye Feng scratched his head and decided not to think about these things anymore. He felt that if he compared scheming with Li Guanqi, he would probably be outwitted to death.