Although Gu Yueping clearly still had a powerful natal gu and was confident he could kill Chen Xuan by himself, he still proposed joining forces with Yong Tianyi and Guo Poliao. In truth, he wanted to lower their guard so he could strike when they least expected it, planning to take all three shares of merit points for himself!
Yong Tianyi and Guo Poliao had also considered this. They figured that as long as they killed Chen Xuan and immediately activated their orange-crystal stellar marks to leave, Gu Yueping would have no way of killing them—after all, that natal gu could only unleash its divine ability once.
Thus, the three of them harbored their own treacherous schemes as they formed a pincer movement and slowly surrounded Chen Xuan.
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