Zero smiled faintly, "Master Liu, there's something I'm not sure if I should say."

Old Liu was slightly taken aback, "Commander Zero, please enlighten me."

Zero's expression turned serious, "You've always wanted to push Li Po to the position of overlord of the martial world. For a strategist, there's nothing wrong with that."

"After all, a strategist schemes for his lord's family and the realm."

"Making Liangjie Tang the dominant force of the era and ensuring the Li family's wealth and prosperity is precisely what a strategist should do."

"But, as a friend, have you considered what Li Po wants?"

Old Liu couldn't help but freeze, "Please instruct me, Commander Zero."

Zero slowly said, "Li Po has always refused to let you call him 'Lord'. Is it simply because he sees you as a close friend?"

"Li Po is a very intelligent person. If given time, he might not be able to become a strategist of his generation. However, he never bothers to figure out the situation of the martial world."

Zero suddenly asked, "Master Liu, how big do you think Li Po's *geju* (格局 – overall perspective; vision; strategic thinking) is?"

Zeng Guofan had a famous saying: "He who plans great things values *geju* above all else."

To put it bluntly, *geju* is the size of a person's ambition, the breadth of their mind, and the height of their vision.

Old Liu shook his fan and said, "Everyone talks about *geju*, but in reality, most people who talk about *geju* don't have the ability to match their so-called *geju*. It's not an exaggeration to describe them as ambitious but incompetent."

"My lord has that kind of ability."

Zero said without hesitation, "Then how big is Li Po's *geju*?"

Old Liu stood up and slowly walked to the window, looking at the Liangjie Tang garden, "My lord's *geju* may only be as far as my eyes can see."

"But that doesn't match his ability!"

Zero said faintly, "If Li Po wasn't a sorcerer, but just a chef, he would live very happily."

"Li Po has the power to slay gods, but he is just a mortal struggling in reality."

"Since his debut, every step he has taken has been pushed by fate. He is not afraid of life and death, he just wants to live."

"To live and return to Liangjie Tang, to joke around with you, cook for you, and wash dishes!"

Zero sighed, "If there were no arrangements of fate, Li Po would just be a little boy who is happy to be full today and not worry about tomorrow."

"Li Po can tacitly allow you to continuously increase Liangjie Tang's strength, just because he wants to better protect Liangjie Tang."

"Striving for supremacy! For him, it might be a kind of torture."

Old Liu also sighed, "Qu Mo and Jiu Gui's influence on my lord is too deep!"

"Qu Mo went into seclusion, and Jiu Gui avoided the world, living in the simplest way in the place furthest from the crowd. Perhaps, the old lord Li Chunfeng was also like this. That's why my lord has a detachment that shouldn't belong to him."

Zero also stood up, "So, do you think Li Po would be happy standing at the pinnacle of the martial world?"

"Master Liu calculates everything, but he never thought that Li Po is not the lord in your heart!"

Old Liu was silent for a long time before suddenly laughing, "I'm already used to calling him 'Lord', I can't change it back in a short time. He is not my lord, but he is the bond of Liangjie Tang."

"Whether he is the Wolf King, or Li Po."

"From the day he brought me back to the old alley, I was destined to be inseparable from Liangjie Tang."

"That day, if he had erased Little Bei's memory, I would have been a perfect and flawless divine strategist. But he left me a gap."

"What my lord doesn't know is that the gap he left me has been filled by him personally."

"I originally wanted to find a perfect lord, but later I discovered that it was precisely my lord's imperfections that attracted me like a magnet."

"Liangjie Tang!"

Old Liu looked up at the sky and said, "I really find myself unable to leave Liangjie Tang."

Zero said in a low voice, "But the situation of the martial world does not allow you to stay out of it! Now I don't know whether helping you bring Qing Tang into Liangjie Tang is right or wrong?"

Old Liu cupped his fist and said, "Commander Zero, when the day comes that Liangjie Tang collectively goes into seclusion from the martial world, you can also come to Liangjie Tang."

Zero suddenly laughed, "Are you trying to introduce me to Li Po?"

Old Liu couldn't help but be slightly stunned, not knowing how to answer Zero's question.

While Zero and Old Liu were talking and laughing, Butcher Wang and Wang Xiaohuan were already standing at the entrance of Beishui Town.

At this time, Beishui Town had returned to calm again.

The tourists who were originally lying on the pedestrian street have already been taken to some unknown place.

Butcher Wang went straight to Fan Fang's office and gently touched the spider silk blocking the stone steps with his knife, "Badger, release the lamp."

"You're calling me 'Badger' again." Wang Xiaohuan gritted his teeth and released a white lamp. The eerie lamplight floated up along the stone steps, and the spider silk all over the stone steps had nowhere to hide under the white lamp, appearing one by one in Butcher Wang's sight.

Butcher Wang said with his hands behind his back, "Petty tricks, release another lamp!" Then he took out a finger-length piece of yellow incense from his satchel, and the head of the incense immediately lit up with a flame in the wind.

Butcher Wang raised his hand and shot the piece of yellow incense into the lampstand as a hidden weapon. The strange fragrance, along with the white lamp, went up the mountain, and the spider silk broke wherever the lamplight reached.

Wang Xiaohuan clearly saw something hiding under the leaves in the distance, shivering, "Dou Dou, aren't you going to catch those spiders?"

"What's so good about catching low-level demon *gu*? Just set a fire and burn them later." Butcher Wang didn't even look at the demon *gu* in the distance, and walked straight to the door of the office, breaking it open.