The disciples of the Li Family, upon hearing these words, immediately became excited.
According to Li Xuandu, as long as they successfully assassinate Xia Hong and restore Long Mountain, their previous failures would all be rectified. Official source ıs novel•fire.net
"But what if we lose the gamble?"
Li Xuanping and his sister became increasingly excited and were about to speak when Li Xuanling, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly threw cold water on the crowd.
Li Xuandu’s expression slightly tensed, he turned to look at everyone, and whispered, "Then we won’t even have a chance to surrender. Just now White Dew Gu’s assassination attempt must have been seen by Xia Hong as intentionally facilitated by us. If there’s another attempt, and it fails again, our Longshan Li Family would truly be at its end, and life or death would be entirely at Xia Hong’s command."
Li Xuanling clearly already knew this answer. She turned to look at the disciples of the Li Family on her left, feeling a wave of helplessness, with a sorrowful expression said:
"Whether to gamble or not, you all say something!"
Facing this question, even the twenty-seven disciples of the Li Family instantly fell silent, let alone the fourteen other-surnamed Cold Resistance Level members like Meng Ying.
Choosing to gamble means staking their entire lives and those of their family.
No one dared to casually give an answer to this question.
Not even Li Xuanping. He seemed to have thought of a good idea, his expression lifted, and he said, "Leader, if we could turn Hou Jing, Yu Bin, and Dong Zhong, and have them release the more than seven thousand Earth-digging Realm in the dungeon, plus the ten thousand under their command, wouldn’t overthrowing Great Xia be easy?"
Seeing the disciples of the Li Family gradually become excited, really thinking Li Xuanping’s suggestion was feasible, Li Xuanling was so furious she turned her back on them.
"How do you plan to turn Hou Jing and the others, tell us?"
Meng Ying couldn’t stand it and directly asked Li Xuanping with a mocking tone.
Li Xuanping was stunned, then replied, "Resources, spiritual medicine, territory... whatever we have, we’ll give them, won’t that work?"
"But do we even have these things now?"
The entire Long Mountain, or even the entire Longyou region, is currently in the hands of Great Xia, they have nothing to offer.
Although Li Xuanping understood Meng Ying’s point, he still wasn’t convinced and continued, "We can promise Hou Jing and the others that as soon as Long Mountain is restored, we’ll divide the entire Longyou into four parts and rule together with their three families."
"Well, that condition is indeed tempting, but..."
Meng Ying suddenly changed his tone and asked in a low voice, "Is this really a condition? Can you guarantee the success of the assassination? Without guarantees, these are just empty words. Why would they risk everything to gamble with you?"
Li Xuanping, along with the other disciples of the Li Family, froze upon hearing this retort, clearly realizing the point.
"We simply don’t have the possibility of turning the three, although, judging by the recent attempted assassination on Xia Hong, Hou Jing and his ten thousand Earth-digging Realm indeed have a great chance of defecting, but that’s based on us successfully assassinating Xia Hong..."
Li Xuandu took over Meng Ying’s words, and after speaking, he continued looking at the Cold Resistance Level members in front of him, and asked, "So, should we gamble or not?"
The desire in Li Xuanping’s mind eventually overcame reason, and he was the first to stand up and declare his position. He turned to look at the Cold Resistance Level behind him and said, "There is almost no formed force left in the entire Longyou. As long as we can kill Xia Hong, not only can we make a comeback and restore Long Mountain, but we can also leverage this momentum to unify Longyou..."
Li Xuanqiu spoke second, "After consolidation, we can also attack Redwood Ridge, seek revenge on Great Xia, maybe even annex them. I also agree to take this gamble."
Li Xuanhong was also tempted and said, "That’s right, we have too many Cold Resistance Levels in the Li Family. Even if we surrender, Xia Hong will surely harbor suspicion. Life under his rule won’t be easy, so why not go all out?"
"The former leader said Long Mountain has a destiny, I believe we can win the gamble!"
Not only twenty-seven members of the Li Family, but Yang Fengping and two Cold Resistance Level consorts also voiced their support, all decided to go all in.
Meng Ying, Jiang Ping, Sun Yan, and the eight people behind them all remained silent, and everyone’s eyes soon focused on these eleven people.
"Leader, we are not..."
"No need to say more, rest assured, I won’t force you!"
Meng Ying, feeling guilty, was about to speak but was interrupted by Li Xuanling raising her hand.
"You eleven stay here and wait for the result! If we succeed, I’ll send someone to inform you immediately. If we fail... you can go surrender to Great Xia yourselves; saving your families shouldn’t be difficult."
Li Xuanling’s words undoubtedly made Meng Ying and the others even more ashamed.
"Alright, since we’ve decided to go all out, let’s prepare!"
Li Xuanling didn’t even look at Meng Ying and the others but instead moved to the back and lifted an iron plate on the ground, revealing a narrow tunnel just big enough for one person.
She didn’t randomly lead everyone into this basement.
This basement was built by her father with a group when Long Mountain was weak, and the tunnel inside leads directly to the underground of the main building.
"Peng Bo, Liu Yuan, and Yuwen Dao, those eleven people, Xia Hong now has at least thirteen Cold Resistance Levels around him, plus more than six hundred Cloud Dragon Army, the defense force in the main building isn’t small, even getting close to Xia Hong won’t be easy, so we have to first come up with a foolproof plan..."