"Rongrong, what are your thoughts?" After watching the recorded images, Ning Fengzhi turned his gaze toward the silent Ning Rongrong.
After all, Ning Rongrong was the mastermind behind the plan.
With Ning Fengzhi's reminder, everyone's eyes also shifted to Ning Rongrong's position.
Seeing this, Ning Rongrong remained silent for a long moment before speaking:
"Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue's relationship is very complicated. For now, I can't determine whether Bibi Dong truly has any intention of killing Qian Renxue."
Confirming this point was crucial. If Bibi Dong didn't care about Qian Renxue at all, then during their private meeting, with her strength as a 98th-ranked Title Douluo, she could have easily killed Qian Renxue, along with Ci Xue and She Long. Yet, Bibi Dong didn't do so.
It was unclear whether she couldn't bring herself to do it or if she had other plans.
In some fanfiction authors' depictions, Bibi Dong refrained from killing Qian Renxue in order to completely dismantle the Spirit Hall's plans, as well as due to her relationship with Qian Daoliu.
So, when seeing the two interact, Ning Rongrong found this scene as well as certain fanfiction interpretations questionable.
There was no way to know what they had said to each other. They could only see that the two had some kind of confrontation before Bibi Dong left.
At that time, Qian Renxue likely didn't have Qian Daoliu protecting her.
Otherwise, Qian Daoliu wouldn't have later fought Bibi Dong and even killed her once.
If not for the Death Spider Emperor's ninth soul ring ability, Undying Body, Bibi Dong might have already perished.
Ning Rongrong sighed silently in her heart: "We'd need to know what they said to properly assess the situation and determine the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan's future direction."
However, this was only the first step of the plan. Though there were unexpected developments, overall, things remained within the scope of her planning.
They only needed to wait two months for Bibi Dong and Yu Yuanzhen to come to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan to collect the Breakthrough Pills before heading to Shrek Academy.
After that, they might finally see to what extent the Divine Realm would interfere.
As long as the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan didn't directly participate, even if suspicions arose later, no one would be able to pin anything on them.
After all, they were just selling pills what did the battles between the other sects and Spirit Hall have to do with them?
This was the advantage of information asymmetry!
With information asymmetry, one could accomplish many things while making everything seem reasonable and legitimate.
After collecting her thoughts, Ning Rongrong looked up at Ning Fengzhi and said, "Personally, I think we should wait until we've translated their lip movements to get a general idea of their conversation before making any further considerations."
"Rongrong, lip-reading is a very niche skill," Bone Douluo sighed. "If outsiders were to learn about these recorded images, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan might become a target."
Bone Douluo didn't say it outright, but Ning Rongrong understood his implication.
That was… after the translation was complete, if the lip-reader who saw these images couldn't be guaranteed absolute loyalty, they would have to be permanently silenced.
Admittedly, this was indeed Bone Douluo's way of doing things.
In the original story, he had even made a throat-slitting gesture to suggest Ning Fengzhi eliminate Tang San, the twin-soul master.
That said, no sect was truly spotless in its methods.
Still, it had to be acknowledged that Bone Douluo's implied solution was the safest approach dead men told no tales.
As for the later stages of the plan, those could be discussed separately. But at this point, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan couldn't afford the risk of these recordings being leaked.
"Grandpa Bone, then we should just train our own lip-reading team within the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan. Find loyal people and place certain restrictions in their minds to prevent them from leaking information."
"Anyway, the contents of the recordings or rather, the details of their conversation aren't something we urgently need to know. We can afford to wait until we've trained a team of reliable lip-readers before making further considerations."
"Rongrong, you're not wrong in saying that, but I'm still a little worried…"
"There's no need, Grandpa Bone," Ning Rongrong said with a smile.
"As long as the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan has a 98th-ranked Title Douluo before these recordings are leaked."
"And then, if a certain clan leader works a little harder to reach Title Douluo level himself…"
"By then, the combined strength should be no weaker than Qian Daoliu at rank 99."
"Even if we're slightly inferior to Qian Daoliu, we'd still be at the level of a 99th-ranked Title Douluo. Given Qian Daoliu's personality, he might not dare to fight us to the death."
The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan had vast assets but was Spirit Hall's any smaller?
Besides, they were just going to observe the battle.
Yes, they might know a bit about your family drama, but so what?
What are you gonna do, Qian Daoliu? Bite me?
At most, it was just that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan's current strength wasn't sufficient.
If they were strong enough, even if they stood at the sidelines as commentators while Bibi Dong and Qian Daoliu fought, the two would have no choice but to endure the annoyance and keep fighting.
All fear stems from insufficient firepower.
"For me to reach Title Douluo… girl, you really dare to dream!"
Ning Fengzhi shook his head helplessly.
For Sword Douluo or Bone Douluo to reach the strength of a 98th-ranked Title Douluo was plausible.
But for him, Ning Fengzhi, to reach 91st rank as a Title Douluo, his Eight Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda would need to evolve into a Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda. How difficult was that?
"Dad, you need to have confidence in yourself. Whether I can recklessly live as the young mistress of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan in the future depends on you."
"Hoping for my father to rise like a dragon is much faster than cultivating myself."
Ning Rongrong spoke with such seriousness that the others in the hall broke out in cold sweat.
Ning Fengzhi: "..."
You're really my wonderful daughter. So the reason you've been pushing me to cultivate harder is for this?
Others hoped for their sons to become dragons or their daughters to become phoenixes, but here it was hoping for her father to become a dragon how absurd!
Shaking off his internal complaints, Ning Fengzhi forced a bitter smile.
"Rongrong, I don't oppose you being the kind of young mistress you described, but wanting me to reach Title Douluo… your ambitions are truly grand."
"What's wrong with that? A person without dreams is no different from a salted fish." Ning Rongrong rambled on. "Dad, you're already an 87th-ranked Spirit Douluo how far is that from Title Douluo?"
"It's just three ranks. Grit your teeth, stomp your foot, and whoosh you'll reach it."
Ning Fengzhi: "..."
Since when did I, Ning Fengzhi, become this amazing?
Besides, the bottleneck between 89th and 90th rank had trapped countless Spirit Douluo, let alone someone still at 87th rank.
"No need to worry." Seeming to sense Ning Fengzhi's lack of confidence, Ning Rongrong reassured him.
"As for the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, though I'm not entirely confident…"
"But in Douluo Continent, there are still plenty of 100,000-year spirit beasts! And I know the locations of some of them."
"Even if we have to pile up 100,000-year spirit bones, we should be able to raise the Eight Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda by one level."
"Right now, you only have two spirit bones the Illusionary Wisdom Skull Bone and the Evil Spirit Orca King Torso Bone."
Ning Rongrong paused briefly before continuing.
"100,000-year spirit beasts will produce spirit bones for body parts that soul masters don't already have, including extremely rare external spirit bones. You can still equip five more 100,000-year spirit bones."
"Once all that's done, do you still think you won't have the confidence to break through to Title Douluo?"
Ning Rongrong's shocking yet logically sound proposal left everyone present in awe.
Ning Fengzhi, in particular, took a long time to recover from the sheer scale of her "grand plan."