"True Man Wang, can we really trust this profit-sharing arrangement you're proposing?" someone cried out from within the crowd. "You are cultivators and we are ordinary folk; if you go back on your words later, wouldn't we lose everything we've invested?"
"This fellow villager worries too much," Duge said with a smile, offering a fist and palm salute. "If I wanted to swindle you, why would I go through such an elaborate scheme? You all have seen the people from Sky Mist Valley; if I commanded them to slaughter the village, who among you could escape?
Afterward, your wealth would be mine, I would kill the witness, and even the Supervisory Academy wouldn't be able to trace it back to me because, after all, the method of murder would be that of Sky Mist Valley's..."
Just one sentence.
The faces of all the villagers present had changed.
