Everyone had a ruler in their heart.
Li Tianming's ruler was this: when the greater picture was at stake, harm the innocent as little as possible.
Using someone's weakness against them was merely one method; the key lay in how it was used. Xi Huang had slaughtered people to force Li Tianming into submission, whereas they were using Yun Tianque's weakness to draw him into the game today. The two were never the same concept.
The difference lay in their attitude toward "weaknesses."
If he gave up a golden opportunity just to create the label of a "good person," becoming an inflexible "fool," then that would not be Li Tianming.
In matters like this, it was enough to have a clear conscience.
There would always be people in this world who occupied the moral high ground, pointing fingers and making mountains out of molehills.
Li Muyang had taught him to be a gentleman, while Li Wudi had taught him how to use schemes.
A gentleman without "methods" was destined to be nothing more than a sage, not a king.
Now!
Li Tianming had already had Ye Buzhiqiu send Yun Tianque's weakness back. His attention was focused entirely on the battle inside the World-Devouring Divine Cauldron.
"These people really are strong!"
Judging from the vibrations of the World-Devouring Divine Cauldron, even Li Tianming's scalp tingled.
"Their realms are probably all in the upper levels of the Divine Yang King Realm, close to the peak of the Land of Order!"
"Even the youngest among them have cultivated for over eight hundred years."
"I'm still far, far from their level..."
If not for Silver Dust, it would have been impossible to gather them around him, to have them follow his will and accomplish something that someone his age could never possibly do.
Thus,