Li Yan watched Xue Ba and Qian Tuo leave first. He also roughly understood that this was precisely Xiu'er's clever tactic.
With the skills of a Gaoli ghost, killing Yang Feng and the other in the Martial Arts Hall wouldn't be a hard task, but the aftermath would be troublesome. With a formidable enemy at hand, rashly spilling blood would surely cause restlessness among the people. Even if the evidence was irrefutable, it would still provoke resentment and disillusion among other leaders. Therefore, Xiu'er had planted Nanny Qiuru as a fishhook in reverse; as long as Yang Zuowu and Feng Kaiming dared to make a move, they would lose nine-tenths of their fortunes and lives.
