Chapter 797 — As Simple as That

Everything was ready-made. Xia Xue and Lan Ling had set up a self-service barbecue, and once the fire was lit, they could eat.

Dong Jun, Yang Ce, Lin Ce, Liu Yu and the others took their seats around the fire one after another. As for Yiyi and Xiao Susu, they had gone back to rest—they were pregnant, and it was not good for them to be smoked and scorched here.

"Yang Ce, to be honest, this is the first time I've sat down and eaten with you with my heart so open. In the past, all my dealings with you were cautious and purposeful—I've never been as relaxed as I am today!" Dong Jun let out a long breath, looked at the table full of delicacies, and said sincerely, "Even though we haven't started eating yet, my mood is completely different! Thank you for forgiving me, truly!"

"Heh heh, Dong Jun... junior brother, the truth is, once you open your mind to certain things and let go of the obsessions and burdens in your heart, then there's nothing left to it," Yang Hengye said. "I understand the difficulties you faced before, so after Master told me the truth, I chose to forgive you without hesitation—because I know your nature isn't bad. You did it to break away from that organization, to let your sister Alice live a normal life. There's nothing wrong with that. I understand you! If I stood in your shoes, I too would have tried every possible means to fight for it!"

Sometimes, some things have no right or wrong. Dong Jun did what he did from his own perspective, so you cannot say that doing so was wrong.

It was like Yang Ce—when he clashed with Wang Yanqiu, he too used forceful means to take out several of Wang Yanqiu's subordinates, and even Wang Yanqiu himself was pushed down by Yang Ce. Although afterward Wang Yanqiu and he became boyfriend and girlfriend and the ending was very happy, before that the two of them could be called adversaries!

And in this, you cannot say Wang Yanqiu was wrong. Nor can you say Yang Ce was wrong. Some things, viewed from different angles, yield different results.

So it was only at this moment that Yang Ce forgave Dong Jun so decisively.

"Many thanks, Yang Ce!" Dong Jun cupped his fists excitedly.

"No need for thanks. From now on we're brothers in the same trench, heh heh. We were senior and junior brothers to begin with," Yang Hengye said.

"That's right, senior brother. My thinking before was too simple—I thought that by becoming the King of Assassins and borrowing the power of the Butterfly Family, I could make the Center compromise and release my sister and me. But I was far too ignorant then; my understanding of the Center was only the tip of the iceberg," Dong Jun said with a bitter smile. "Now it seems that in the Center's eyes, these things truly count for nothing. So I also don't know whether you can muster enough power to make the Center compromise?"

"We'll talk about that after we get back. For now, it seems the greatest enemy is still the Right Elder. Only after we take him out will we have the mind to think about the Center," Yang Yanzhou said. "That said, I've crossed hands with the Center several times, and I've now taken the Vajra Gu and a simplified version of the Mighty Hercules Gu, so I should have some say before the Center."

"By the way, senior brother Yang Ce, you said before that you had a way to deal with the Right Elder but couldn't carry it out. What was that about? Is there some difficulty?" Dong Yan said. "Tell us, and let's see if I have any ideas."

"Even if you hadn't asked, I was going to tell you," Yang Yuting said with a nod. "Here's how it is—the Right Elder is now impervious to blades and spears, and immune to water and fire..."

Yang Ce first explained the Right Elder's situation to Dong Yan. Sure enough, after hearing it, Dong Jun nodded and said, "I know this too. The Right Elder bragged to me about it before. With him in this state, we really are in a bit of a bind!"

"However, Lan Ling's grandfather told me a good method!" Yang Yanzhou said. "Before, our vision was too limited—we fixed our eyes only on how to break the Right Elder's Vajra Gu, believing that only by breaking the Vajra Gu could we deal with him. But that's not actually so. We can bypass the Vajra Gu and use another method to deal with him!"

"Oh? What method?" Dong Jun's eyes lit up; he had somewhat grasped Yang Juehuan's meaning.

"Feed him Gu!" Yang Ce explained the method Lan Ling's grandfather had described to Dong Yan, then said with a bitter smile, "The method exists, but we have no opportunity. How to plant the Swift Cicada Gu on the Right Elder without his knowledge, and make him swallow it—that's the problem!"

"Ha!" Dong Jun suddenly burst out laughing, and said with some excitement, "And here I thought it was some great problem—so it's this! This is simply too easy!"

"Too easy?" Yang Ce was slightly taken aback, then suddenly his gaze toward Dong Jun turned strange. "You mean to say..."

"Don't forget what my signature skill is!" Dong Yan said. "Just give me the Swift Cicada Gu, and I can slip it into the Right Elder's food without anyone knowing and make him swallow it. And the Right Elder has no guard up against me at all—this is actually very easy to do!"

"Right, you're a top-tier divine thief!" Yang Puqi slapped the table, suddenly very excited. "How could I have forgotten that! He has no defenses against you now, and with your skills, planting Gu on the Right Elder is a piece of cake."

"Leave this to me, I guarantee it'll be done properly!" Dong Yan said. "If it were anything else I wouldn't dare promise, but this—it's too easy, absolutely no problem!"

Liu Yu, Lin Ce, Liu Yan and the others at the same table with Yan had also never expected that the greatest difficulty that had plagued everyone for days was no difficulty at all to Dong Jun—it was an effortlessly simple matter. They were all caught between laughter and tears, unsure whether to be happy or what. It was solved just like that?

And at this moment Yang Ce was secretly rejoicing in his heart—his soft-heartedness was not such a bad flaw after all. If he had not let Dong Jun off the hook, Dong Jun could not have come to Miaojiang to help him, and if Dong Jun had not come, he would have had no chance to plant Gu on the Right Elder...

All of this had been changed by a single thought of his. It truly left Yang Ce sighing with emotion. It seemed that this flaw of his was no flaw at all at certain times—and at the critical moment, it had actually become a life-saving means!

"It seems, junior brother Dong Jun, that forgiving you was the most correct choice I could have made!" Yang Yongjin said with deep feeling. "I never imagined that something I found so headache-inducing would be no more than lifting a hand for you!"

"Don't say that—I just happened to be in the right place at the right time. If the Right Elder didn't trust me, I couldn't have pulled off this Gu-planting either. But who told the fellow to be so foolish, always trying to show off in front of me? Well, now look—the thing he'll regret most in this life is probably inviting me here!" Dong Jun said with a laugh.