Half a month later, the Patrol Envoys returning from their routine patrol hurriedly brought back news: they had discovered an incomparably enormous Sacred Tree heading toward the Great Wilderness.
At the news, Qin Yang's hair practically stood on end. His first reaction was that the Sacred Tree Race had gone mad.
They actually dared risk the extinction of their entire race and the collapse of the Sacred Tree itself to force their way through the Gale Wind Layer?
But then Qin Yang recalled how Chou Ge Beast had gone there before. What deal had he made with the Sacred Tree Race? Afterward, Chou Ge Beast had left, and the Sacred Tree Race had clearly been reluctant to meddle in the grudge between them.
Now, however, Qin Yang finally understood why he had always felt things could not possibly be so simple. When Chou Ge Beast's plan had been thwarted, he had fled straight to the Sacred Tree, then simply left again.
It had seemed inexplicable before. Now he understood it all.
Chou Ge Beast had never intended to cooperate with anyone. A man like him had never trusted others, so what foundation could there be for cooperation?
He had merely wanted to drag the Sacred Tree Race into the water.
To make people as hesitant and cautious as the Sacred Tree Race gamble everything like this, they must have been forced into a corner.
The only way to achieve that was to make the Sacred Tree itself develop a problem.
Thinking of how Chou Ge Beast had previously entered the area covered by Sacred Tree Death Qi, Qin Yang knew he must have done something there. His silent departure had not been forced; he had already accomplished what he had set out to do.
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