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689 : One Mountain Cannot Hide Two Tigers

Chapter 689

One Mountain Cannot Hide Two Tigers

(t/n: 一山不能容二虎, a common saying referring to how two strong people won’t be able to coexist in one place)
Translated by Yan of Exiled Rebels Scanlations

“Pfft….”

White smoke suddenly came up from the cauldron, spiraling upward and disappearing in the atmosphere.

You XiaoMo looked at the pile of black crumbs leftover from the magic herbs which laid ruined inside the cauldron and silently wiped away the blood that covered his face. He was speechless for a long time because this was already the second time he failed.

The first time, after going through an endless distilling, it took him four days to finish extracting all the magic herbs. But then a tiny mistake happened during the refining stage, and he failed. The second time, or this time, also had a mistake occur during the refining stage. Moreover, it was when he was about to finish. It took him eight days total, but he failed at the last second!

Fu CangQiong only gave him three portions of ingredients. Now there was only one portion left. If he failed again, he would either have to ask for more from Fu CangQiong or go look for them by himself. He had already gathered quite a bit in his dimension, but…

When You XiaoMo thought about failing, he felt very ashamed.

Back then, when he heard about how Cang Alliance’s Master Lai also failed many times while refining the Samsara Pill, he didn’t pay much attention to it. As a result, reality brutally smacked him in the face. You couldn’t be too arrogant, or else you would end up like this!

At the beginning, he only thought that it would take about ten or so days, but now almost half a month had already passed. You XiaoMo sat and rested for half an hour before taking out the third portion of ingredients. He imagined what he had to do in his mind first before acting.

An enormous amount of magic herbs fell, scattered, into the cauldron.

……

In the Black Spider’s headquarters.

The TongTian Emperor stared at a palace hall on a distant mountain peak with an unreadable expression on his face. He felt more and more that coming to Xi Jing with Lin ShaoYi was a mistake.

The reason was very simple. They were merely an alliance made from mutual interest. It was best if this kind of alliance was established on a foundation of equal strength; once that fulcrum of equality was lost, he would become the sheep that sent itself into the tiger’s mouth. If Lin ShaoYi’s plan succeeded, it was hard to ensure that he wouldn’t abandon the TongTian emperor afterwards.

“Heavenly Emperor, I still believe that it would be best if we left immediately,” a trusted aide couldn’t help but suggest upon seeing the Emperor pacing back and forth with a furrowed brow.

“Even you think that?” the TongTian Emperor stopped walking and looked at him with hesitation.

The trusted aide nodded. “Heavenly Emperor, the current situation is disadvantageous for us. What kind of person is Lin ShaoYi to be able to establish a powerhouse like the Black Spider? He must be someone who is vicious and merciless. As soon as his strength surpasses the Heavenly Emperor’s, he definitely won’t allow you to remain on equal footing with him.”

The TongTian Emperor’s face was dark. What the trusted aide was saying was indeed exactly what he was thinking in his mind.

He only learned on the day that he joined hands with Lin ShaoYi to kill Ling Xiao that Lin ShaoYi was actually exchanging his own blood, wanting to become the person from the legend of the Four Ancient Beast Clans. This kind of behavior was even crazier than his own former plans!