Chapter 466 - A Plan Of Sabotage
"What's the situation here in the capital? And what about your father?" Lin Mu questioned after Wu Hei had calmed down.
"The capital has a lot of spies of Gu Yao. Mostly in the form of disciples of various sects. There are a few that are being controlled by the curse but most of them are here on the orders of their sects.
Overall the situation is in a strange equilibrium but it can be changed at any moment. As for my father Wu Xun, ever since he was promoted to the position of a court minister, his influence has only grown.
He has been using this power to establish various deals that are likely to be helpful to Gu Yao. I haven't been able to gain much on his end due to being greatly restricted. He hasn't been letting anyone other than Gu Yao himself get an idea of what he's doing either.
And now that my mother is under the control of Gu Yao as well, the slight opposition that he had from the old powers that supported my mother have also faded away. Her power as the Zhen clan's final member is useless as well." Wu Hei answered.
"Hmm… looks like we will have to take a different approach. Have you thought of a plan? It doesn't matter if it is not possible now, we may be able to change that in the future." Lin Mu asked.
"There are indeed some plans that I made. I reckoned that since we are unable to directly oppose Gu Yao for now, the most I could do was to delay his rise. I was sabotaging his supply chains and saving the sacrifices, but that hasn't been that effective.
Another thing that I wanted to do was to alert the top sects to his existence. This would have been easy since they already knew the Northern Tribes are acting up, but his hold over the other sects is far too much to do it efficiently. I tried something like that, but it was stopped by his servants before the proof could even reach the top sects." Wu Hei replied.
"Crippling his supply chains may really be the way. I doubt Gu Yao will be able to hide the fact that the various elders of the sects are being controlled for long. Like you said before, the top sects were already suspicious of the many sects that were joining under the Zither wind alliance.
That means they have some idea but don't exactly know what it is. We just need to delay Gu Yao long enough that the top sects figure it out on their own. Or perhaps… Gu Yao may even get desperate and make some big mistake which would reveal him.
Even if he has Dao Shell realm cultivators under him, it will still be difficult for him to go against the Dao treading realm elders of the top sects, not to mention their ancestors who will definitely awaken if things go really bad." Lin Mu analyzed.
Wu Hei thought over it and found it to be quite valid.
"This could work… but we will need a lot of people if we want to do this and doing that… while staying hidden is a herculean task." Wu Hei said.
"What are the particular points for which we will need so many people?" Lin Mu asked curiously.
"Well, since we want to delay him, we will need to hit the root of his power, the sects themselves. Without the resources, he will not be able to do much. But to do this, we will have to get to the sects themselves. Unless we have insiders there, this will be close to impossible." Wu Hei replied.
Lin Mu held his chin and pondered for a few minutes before a few ideas came to him.
"So… as long as someone can get into the sects and get rid of their resources, it will work?" Lin Mu said.
"No, not like that. If we really do get rid of all their resources, we will only be crippling ourselves in the long term. We still have the northern tribes to worry about. If the sects don't have the resource in the time of need, even if we get rid of Gu Yao, we may end up losing the war.
Besides, if only one sect's resources disappear, the others will be alerted and they will amp up their defenses. We would need a coordinated operation that targets all of them at the same time." Wu Hei replied.
Lin Mu once again, thought for a bit before speaking.
"The problem is with the other sects finding and increasing security, right? Then as long as the gap between all the attacks is short enough will this work?" Lin Mu questioned.
"Hmm… it may work. But… it will have to be very fast. Like barely a gap of a day between each attack maybe a bit more if we're lucky." Wu Hei answered.
After hearing these words of Wu Hei a new plan instantly started formulating in Lin Mu's mind. There were a few variables in this, but Lin Mu reckoned that as long as a little bit of luck was on his side, he truly may be able to accomplish this.
A determined expression appeared on Lin Mu's face which made Wu Hei a bit surprised.
"I think I may have a method that can be done to make the plan work… and the best thing is we don't even need more people. At least not for the part of crippling Gu Yao's supply chain." Lin Mu spoke.
"What is it?" Wu Hei asked hurriedly.
"Alright then, listen carefully." Lin Mu said before beginning his explanation.
At first Wu Hei was confused, but the more he listened to it the more shocked he got. The methods that Lin Mu was suggesting were absolutely insane and he would have thought them to be straight up suicide. But Lin Mu's explanation clarified it for him.
"This… AMAZING! If this truly works then we may truly be able to stop Gu Yao!"