"Perhaps it was Teacher Lei's health..."
Meng Chao himself felt that this excuse did not hold water.
During the six months before leaving Dragon City, he had received "Martial God" Lei Zongchao's personal guidance and understood the Martial God's physical condition better than anyone.
Although Lei Zongchao had long since lost his former vigor and could not even remain active under intense ultraviolet radiation for extended periods,
his mind had not been seriously affected. Most of the time, he could still mobilize brain cells a hundred times stronger than those of ordinary people, absorbing, integrating, and analyzing the massive flood of information from every corner of Dragon City.
The insights he drew from it held immense guiding value even for Meng Chao, a doomsday returnee with memories of the future.
Perhaps Lei Zongchao had lost the absolute martial power to suppress all God Realm Experts.
But stepping forward, raising his arms in a call to action, tearing apart the black curtain, and sweeping away evil were entirely within his capabilities.
"Now that you mention it, I find it even stranger."
Lü Siya continued her analysis with relentless persistence. "If the New Blood Alliance were merely a few insignificant foot soldiers making petty mischief in their daydreams, it would be understandable for 'Martial God' Lei Zongchao not to notice them.
"But judging from the current situation, the New Blood Alliance involved at least Lü Zhongqi and Yun Feidian—two God Realm Experts who controlled Super Enterprises—as well as key figures from more than two-digit numbers of the Nine Great Cultivation Families. They had been operating in the shadows for at least ten full years.
"I find it hard to believe that the New Blood Alliance's recruitment, infiltration, threats, inducements, and even murder to silence witnesses could truly have been watertight and silent,