Tie Dan stayed in Yingzhou for a day, first to rest and replenish his Qi, waiting for Xiao Ming to gather all the knives, and also to calculate the variables and plan strategies to maximize his own benefits.
Actually, he didn't need to calculate and deduce much. Just seeing how powerful that tree-planting old man was, he had a sense of the difficulty he would face. He knew that this mission was fraught with challenges and wouldn't be as simple as delivering a letter, exchanging goods, and rescuing someone.
Considering the current situation, after much deliberation, it boiled down to choosing between two battles.
One was to take the nine knives and break the old man's great array together to rescue someone.
The second option was to go alone, defeat at least seven Nascent Souls, break Lanling, and snatch the Immortal Ganoderma from the Xiao Family.
