Chapter 1893: Deep Foresight
"Times change, and people change with them."
Meng Chao smiled. "When the Holy Light Faction and the Chaos Faction had just gone to war, Baroque Territory was still hemmed in by four directly governed territories of the Holy Light Temple. Duke of Raging Lion himself was nowhere near powerful enough to challenge the temple's authority. The slightest sign of rebellion, and the Holy Light Temple could easily have killed him, then picked ten heirs from his Lineage who were more obedient than he was.
"At that time, Duke of Raging Lion could only press forward bravely, regard death as home, and trade absolute loyalty for the Holy Light Temple's trust and support.
"But now, as we sang victory after victory on the battlefield, both the Holy Light Temple's own strength and the number of devout vassals absolutely loyal to it—those willing to fight down to the last man and be buried alongside the temple—had dwindled more and more.
"Yet Duke of Raging Lion, through strength, luck, and my deliberate indulgence, had gradually become one of the Holy Light Faction's foremost holders of real power.
"As one rose while the other declined, how could his long-buried ambition possibly remain beneath the surface?"
"So that was it!"
The many Martial God Hall Disciples suddenly understood.
After pondering for a moment, the young man named Shao Yu said, "Several times, we clearly had opportunities to deal the Raging Lion Legion a crushing blow, but Hall Master, you ordered us to let them go. Back then, many people couldn't understand your moves. So you deliberately wanted to create a warlord within the Holy Light Faction with rebellion in his bones and ambition burning in his heart!"
"That's right. Don't think that only the Chaos Faction had factional divides and conflicts