"...Actually, when Ten Thousand Fire Elder sent me here, he also meant for me to keep some distance between Young Miss and Miss Xun'er."
"..."
Yao Wanxuan's words made Yao Wan fall into a brief silence. Then Yao Wan let out a soft sigh.
"...The destruction of the Xiao Clan shouldn't be a secret either, right?"
Yao Wan folded her arms, then said.
Yao Wanxuan nodded and said, "The destruction of the Xiao Clan was naturally closely connected to the Ancient Clan and the Hun Clan."
"Then was the Ancient Clan more suspicious, or was the Hun Clan more suspicious?"
She asked again, and Yao Wanxuan answered once more, "Naturally, the Hun Clan was more suspicious. However, just because the Hun Clan had more shady dealings, that does not prove the Ancient Clan had no suspicion."
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Yao Wan instinctively felt that something was off, but what he said was indeed not wrong.
"But back then, the Xiao Clan was clearly on good terms with the Ancient Clan and on bad terms with the Hun Clan, right? Does that still not prove anything?"
"Young Miss, when looking at matters concerning the Eight Clans, you absolutely must not judge only by the surface."
Yao Wanxuan shook his head with righteous conviction, completely rejecting Yao Wan's argument. He said, "As for the relationship between the Ancient Clan and the Xiao Clan, over the past thousand years, even we of the older generation who witnessed it with our own eyes would find it hard to say how much of it was true and how much was false. Speaking only of the facts, if the relationship between the Ancient Clan and the Xiao Clan had truly been as unbreakable as that, why did the Xiao Clan vanish so quickly?"
"With the Ancient Clan's power,