Han Wubing grabbed the two bottles and strode away.

Ye Jiuyou seemed to move slightly, as if wanting to pursue, but Zhao Changhe blocked her path by swinging his knife to the right.

Ye Jiuyou did not move, and said calmly, "So the Sword Emperor is a senior with magnanimity, and Han Wubing was once a friend. Only I, Ye Jiuyou, am your enemy, is that it?"

Zhao Changhe sighed, "Didn’t you hear Han Wubing say they conspired to kill you, and it was us who thwarted it? We clearly saved you."

Ye Jiuyou sneered, "Didn’t you hear him say their plot might not succeed? Besides, I can’t die, it seems to me you were meddling."

"Really?" Zhao Changhe finally turned to look at her, "Apart from meddling, don’t you know we originally had another choice."

The Four Symbols Sect and Ye Jiuyou are natural adversaries, and even now the unification of the Divine Continent is hindered because Ye Jiuyou supports Guanglong; the supposed other choice was to join the Sword Emperor and Han Wubing in their scheme against Ye Jiuyou, ensuring her death regardless of her preparations.

But they did not do that. Their intervention was to save her, and later Zhao Changhe and Piaomiao’s appearances were to prevent mutual destruction between her and Han Wubing.

"So I should thank you for the mercy of not killing me?" Ye Jiuyou said coldly, "Now you’re stopping me from pursuing the White Tiger, making you my mortal enemy on the path, do you understand?"

"I understand," Zhao Changhe said calmly, "But I think this direction of yours might not be correct. As you do these things, are you not a bit uncertain in your heart?"

Ye Jiuyou sneered, "You think you know a lot?"

"I at least know it’s the garbage Ye Wuming considers worthless, and you’re picking up dead garbage."

"..."

"No matter how you think about it, this can’t be the right path... Of course, maybe that’s not what you’re looking for, perhaps you’re just exploring and using it as a reference, but if so, there would be more avenues." Zhao Changhe said seriously, "For example... the living Four Symbols are right in front of you, isn’t that a better way?"

Ye Jiuyou hesitated, her expression finally showing a slight change.

"I said I would help you, but you didn’t believe me." Zhao Changhe paused, turning to look at the severed arm, his voice tinged with a bit of melancholy, "Earlier, I told Wubing, if he had told me sooner about these matters, we could have come to a better resolution, it wouldn’t be irreconcilable now. The same goes for you, when you abandon slaughter and Silent Annihilation, there will be no opposition between us, if we can be open and sincere, what can’t be solved? Many conflicts come from arrogance and a refusal to trust."

At this point, his voice rose slightly, "Some people are blind, fine, but their mouths are like they’re sewn shut, less useful than an anus, at least that can release gas, not sure why she has a mouth. It’s absurd."

Ye Wuming: "..."

Ye Jiuyou thought he was cursing at her, and angrily said, "Your mouth is the anus! I told you earlier to let your wives accompany me for research, and you wouldn’t agree, what are you pretending for?"

"Why wouldn’t I agree? You didn’t try to capture them for research, instead, you sought the corpses of the Ancient Four Symbols, isn’t that already goodwill?" Zhao Changhe said, "I couldn’t even imagine you doing that, I always suspected your plan was targeting San Niang, Qing’er, and the others, and it turns out it’s not."

"You didn’t guess wrong." Ye Jiuyou sneered, "Why do you think I trapped you in the Abyss, wasn’t it thinking if there’s a chance to capture your group of women?"

The women all smiled slightly, saying nothing.

Maybe she considered it, but judging from her previous actions, it didn’t seem so. Of course, it might also be because everyone appeared to save her, and she couldn’t repay kindness with enmity. Anyway, Ye Jiuyou’s attitude is quite different from the big villain everyone initially imagined.

Truly the kind of darkness and coldness associated with the ancient Jiuyou wouldn’t be concerned about repaying kindness with enmity.

"Is that all?" Zhao Changhe said, "An Azure Dragon Corpse Puppet in the Capital could cause a huge commotion, your original plan must have been so, disrupting the land is to your advantage, yet you gave it up... why is that?"

Ye Jiuyou still sneered, "Because I consider you an ally, in the short term I don’t want to fall out with you, naturally I wouldn’t do that."

"Perhaps..." Zhao Changhe said seriously, "Whatever your thoughts were, the actions you’ve taken have earned my gratitude, and there is nothing that can’t be negotiated. The current question is, are you willing to be open and sincere about what you know?"