Daily Intelligence System: Don't Kill Me, Honey! Chapter 1670 - 386: Thousand Poison Brain God Pill and Chen Jie’s Grand Plan
Previously on Daily Intelligence System: Don't Kill Me, Honey!...
"You’re right on time."
Glancing toward the Four Great Elders, Chen Jie commented. Upon catching his words, Chou Niu proved the boldest, blurting out without hesitation: "Stop with the nonsense, I’ve collected all ten herbs you wanted, and I even gathered one more as an extra task completion for you."
A smile crossed Chen Jie’s face as he heard this: "Very good, Elder Chou Niu, I really didn’t misjudge you, you were able to complete the task smoothly, not bad, not bad."
"Hmph."
Chou Niu cocked his head arrogantly, his smug look obvious. Chen Jie grinned wider, eyeing him with sharper focus: "But you only brought back one extra herb, aren’t you worried that you’ll end up at the bottom?"
"Aren’t you afraid of being eliminated from the bottom?"
Without a word, Chou Niu shot Chen Jie a scornful glare, his contempt plainly visible.
Chen Jie’s grin stretched further.
"Wow, look at that expression, I seem to know what you’re scheming, but are you really sure your alliance is unbreakable?"
Chou Niu stayed quiet, defiance radiating from him.
Knowing this stubborn fellow wouldn’t yield easily, Chen Jie shifted his attention to Elder Chen Long, calling out: "Chen Long?"
"At your service!"
Chen Long stepped forward beaming, eyes fixed on Chen Jie.
Chen Jie regarded him steadily and declared: "Among these folks, you impress me the most—you embody the shift from dragon to snake!"
Chen Long’s face flushed awkwardly at the phrase, dragon-to-snake transformation.
Nicely put, it signified flexibility; bluntly, it screamed flattery.
Ignoring any embarrassment, Chen Jie fixed his gaze and offered: "I’ll give you a shot—how’d your collection go? You didn’t match Chou Niu with just one extra herb, right? Otherwise, I’d think you two plotted to fool me."
Chen Long flashed a wide grin in response: "Heh...how could that be, I brought back, three, three in total."
With that, he pulled two more herbs from his chest, added to the spare one ready, totaling precisely three.
Chou Niu’s eyes bulged at the sight: "Chen Long, you..."
Shock gripped Chou Niu—hadn’t they all pledged to resist Chen Jiusi as one? Weren’t they set to reveal only one extra herb each?
What’s this extra haul mean? Isn’t it stabbing me in the back?
Chen Long acted unaware, grinning at Chen Jie nonstop, the perfect toady who bends with the wind, true to his slimy loach reputation.
Chen Jie’s dragon-snake label held real praise beneath the jab—it wasn’t mere mockery.
Someone like Chen Long soars like a dragon slicing clouds, ambitions sky-high.
In tough times, he slithers as a loach through streams, rubbing with scum, hiding in silt, willing to get filthy just to endure.
That’s the dragon-snake shift: shady tactics, yet survivors in this harsh world often wield them.
Rigid sorts like Chou Niu rarely fare well.
Chen Jie eyed the stunned, wounded Chou Niu, gave a faint head shake, then clapped Chen Long’s shoulder: "Well done—you taught your brother a harsh lesson."
Chen Long answered solemnly: "I’m wholly devoted to the young hero; I don’t grasp what the young hero implies."
Chen Jie chuckled silently at the reply, then turned to Elder Shen Hou: "Elder Monkey, your haul looks plentiful too—did you snag an extra herb as well?"
Shen Hou responded glumly: "Not matching Chen Long’s feat; I managed just two extras."
Chou Niu shot Shen Hou a look upon hearing it—not the gut-punch of Chen Long’s turn, yet staggering. Clearly, only he’d been dumb enough for one extra herb; actually, he could’ve snagged
one or two more, but he’d passed, trusting their trio to stick united. How ridiculous now—utterly ridiculous. He’d treated them as kin; they viewed him as a rung to climb.
Right then, Chou Niu’s entire outlook crumbled, flipped inside out. Straightforward and true didn’t make him dim.
Plus, climbing to elder status in a powerhouse like the Zoroastrian Sect—how many idiots succeed there?
He’d simply avoided scheming out of haste, but a moment’s reflection revealed the schemes. Deep letdown hit him toward Chen Long now.
I bared my heart and lungs to a brother, yet you sought to rip out a brother's heart and lungs.
Precisely this was Chen Jie's intention. United as one, the Four Great Elders would prove difficult to handle—even after implanting the Thousand Poison Brain God Pill, controlling four with aligned minds wouldn't be straightforward.
Yet with divisions now sown among them, future manipulation turns far simpler; this embodies the way of authority.
The way of authority means redirecting conflicts. Whenever interests collide between people, disputes arise inevitably, be they matters of life and death or everyday squabbles—a true superior must master shifting them.
For instance, a clash originally pitting subordinates against superiors can be redirected into strife among the subordinates themselves.
Just like here: the initial conflict stood between Chou Niu and Chen Jie, but through clever tactics, Chen Jie heightened their internal rifts, blocking any unity of heart and easing his dominance over them.