"Your purpose is to kill them, but since you are with the caravan, you cannot make a move. And when you came running over to keep a close watch on them at night, it became even more impossible for them to escape. This means they will remain in the caravan indefinitely, and you will never find a suitable opportunity to strike!" Yanyan warmed his hands by the fire and said calmly.
Hearing this, the Black and White Sisters turned their heads and glared angrily at Yanyan. *Whose side are you actually on?*
At this thought, the Black and White Sisters channeled their energy directly through their hands, forming the black and white Grand Unity Handprint and blasting it toward Yanyan.
Yet Yanyan's gaze remained fixed on the purple-haired, starry-eyed Lesser Master of Fate.
Sure enough, just as the Grand Unity Handprint was about to crash into Yanyan, the Myriad Leaves Flying Blossom Style gracefully flew from the Lesser Master of Fate's hands, placing itself before Yanyan to block the sisters' black and white Grand Unity Handprint.
"The Yin-Yang School's Grand Unity Handprint, and the Myriad Leaves Flying Blossom Style!" Yanyan smiled as he named the techniques the three of them had used. He showed not the slightest reaction of defense, his face completely calm, as though he had long anticipated that the Lesser Master of Fate would intervene.
"The Mohist School is divided into three branches: the current Leader Denglingzi's Xiamo branch, the Qi State's Xiangfuzi branch, and the Qin Mohist Xianglizi branch. The three branches develop independently, each minding its own business. However, the Mohist School possesses a supreme treasure named Tongfang, which belongs to all three branches. What is even more peculiar is that Tongfang is not locked away and treasured with utmost care; instead, it is placed where ordinary core disciples of the Mohist School can access it, making it convenient for core disciples to study and comprehend."
Yanyan spoke as if he cared nothing about it at all.
Upon hearing Yanyan's words, the Black and White Sisters instantly understood. He was reminding them that they could target Tongfang, and that doing so was the key to breaking their predicament.
They knew very well that the one who wanted them dead was not the Lesser Master of Fate, but the Yin-Yang School!
Throughout the entire world and among the Hundred Schools of Thought, there were only a precious few who did not fear the Yin-Yang School: the Taoist School, the Mohist School, and the Confucian School!
Among them, the one with the deepest hatred for the Yin-Yang School was the Mohist School. No one knew when it had started, but the Mohist School and the Yin-Yang School had forged a deep, irreconcilable enmity. Successive Leaders of the Mohist School had all died under the Yin-Yang School's forbidden technique, the Six Souls Fear Curse.
Because of this, the Mohist School and the Yin-Yang School were deadly, irreconcilable enemies!
Yanyan's words were clearly telling them that they could use Tongfang to instigate hatred between the Mohist School and the Yin-Yang School.
In particular, the branch currently feuding with the Yin-Yang School was only Denglingzi's branch of the Mohist School. But if Tongfang were stolen, it would be far more than just offending Denglingzi's branch.
By then, the three branches of the Mohist School, which had been split for many years, would likely dispatch experts to hunt them down!
Yet until the Lesser Master of Fate succeeded in killing them, they remained the Lesser Master of Fate—one of the Five Elders of the Yin-Yang School!
This meant the Mohist School would not listen to any explanations between them and the Yin-Yang School; the three branches would assume this was a plot by the Yin-Yang School to seize the supreme treasure of the Mohist School!
The outcome was also obvious: the three branches of the Mohist School joining forces would turn the Yin-Yang School upside down!
The Yin-Yang School might not be small, but compared to a Mohist School with all three branches allied, the gap was still vast. After all, the Mohist School, the Confucian School, and the Taoist School were recognized as the prominent schools among the Hundred Schools of Thought, belonging to the three most powerful factions.
Aside from them, the only school left that could contend with these three was the School of Diplomacy. The remaining schools—even the Agricultural School, which claimed a hundred thousand disciples—were no match for the three, let alone the newly risen Yin-Yang School!
With that, Yanyan walked out toward the dark edges of the camp, while the purple-haired, starry-eyed Lesser Master of Fate frowned slightly and followed him out.
"Actually, you don't really want to kill them, do you?" Yanyan said, speaking with his back to the Lesser Master of Fate, as if he knew she would follow.
"You aren't stupid—in fact, you're very smart. You knew that keeping them in the caravan was the safest option, which is why you deliberately drove them into the caravan."
"Yet you are even more aware of how terrifying the Yin-Yang School is. Therefore, the ultimate outcome remains the same: they will die in the end. Rather than dying by someone else's hand, you would rather they die by yours, so that at least you can grant them a shred of dignity!"
Yanyan continued, still facing away from the Lesser Master of Fate.
Yet the only reply Yanyan received was a streak of the Myriad Leaves Flying Blossom Style—as flexible and sharp as a spirit snake—which lashed out and viciously stabbed toward his chest.
Yanyan still ignored it, watching quietly as the emerald-green stream of gathered leaves pierced toward him.
In the end, the spirit snake stopped right in front of Yanyan's green Confucian robes, dissolving on its own without touching his body.
However, not harming Yanyan did not mean the Lesser Master of Fate let the matter pass. She certainly was not stupid; on the contrary, she was very smart and understood what Yanyan meant by mentioning Tongfang.
He was inciting the Black and White Sisters to steal the Mohist School's Tongfang and frame—though framing might not be the right word, since the Black and White Sisters who stole Tongfang were still currently the Lesser Master of Fate, one of the Five Elders of the Yin-Yang School, while she herself was merely one of the Five Spiritual Dark Youths of the Yin-Yang School.
Yet the Mohist School would never listen to the Yin-Yang School's explanations. If the Black and White Sisters truly succeeded, the blame would fall entirely upon the Yin-Yang School.
The consequences of stealing Tongfang were even more severe than stealing Mojian, the token of the Mohist Leader, or Feigong, the supreme weapon of the Mohist School, because Tongfang was the bond connecting the three branches of the Mohist School!
Therefore, even though the Lesser Master of Fate's Myriad Leaves Flying Blossom Style did not harm Yanyan, with a wave of her palm, she sliced like a sharp blade into the ground less than half an inch from the tip of Yanyan's shoe, leaving a sword scar over three feet long in the grass.
Yanyan looked down at the sword mark with a faint smile, then turned to watch the Lesser Master of Fate's retreating figure.
"Are you truly incapable of speech, or do you simply feel no sense of belonging to the Yin-Yang School whatsoever?"
For Yanyan to dare discuss Tongfang with the Black and White Sisters right in front of the Lesser Master of Fate was, in truth, a way of testing whether she really could not speak and whether she felt any attachment to the Yin-Yang School.
If the Lesser Master of Fate had any sense of belonging to the Yin-Yang School, she surely would have notified the sect to prevent the Black and White Sisters from stealing the Mohist School's Tongfang, and she certainly would have spoken up.
However, based on Yanyan's observations of the Lesser Master of Fate over the past few days, it was clear she held very little attachment to the Yin-Yang School either. She merely did not know where else to go once she left the sect, which was why she had become nothing more than a puppet on strings for the Yin-Yang School.
Because of this, even knowing that the Black and White Sisters would attempt to steal the Mohist School's Tongfang, she would not sound the alarm for the Yin-Yang School. More likely, she believed she herself could stop them from obtaining Tongfang.
It was a pity, however, that the Lesser Master of Fate had forgotten one thing: the crux of this matter was not whether the Black and White Sisters could successfully steal Tongfang, but whether they would try!
As long as they made the attempt, even if the theft failed, the Mohist School would come directly looking for the Yin-Yang School!
Furthermore, Yanyan did not believe for a second that the Black and White Sisters possessed the strength to steal Tongfang from right under the noses of the various Mohist commanders and the Six-Fingered Black Knight.
The Mohist School of this era was not the Mohist School of Yan Dan's time as Leader; every single commander in the Mohist School now was a top-tier martial artist of the pugilistic world possessing the strength of a sword master.
Therefore, Yanyan was very curious about what the Lesser Master of Fate would do next, and whether she would speak up to warn the Yin-Yang School!