Seeing the small reveals the great. The world was not simply black and white, but a delicate shade of gray.
From the very first words the Woman had spoken to him, Bai Zhi had already roughly guessed certain things.
She had said before that, regarding the incident involving Tian Huo and Tian Huo's Master, if he had not disrupted her plan, only one person would have returned alive in the end.
That statement alone was enough for Bai Zhi to infer a great deal.
It was a simple and obvious example. In that incident, if he had not intervened, who would have been the one to return in the end?
First of all, Tian Huo and her Little Brother, Tian Kong, would not have made it back. The gap in strength between the two sides had been far too great. Those Researchers would not have returned either, because Blondie, whom Tian Huo's Master had beheaded, would never have allowed it.
In other words, if he had not intervened back then, the ones who returned in the end would have been Blondie and Tian Huo's Master.
But if there could only be one person... then the one who returned in the end certainly would not have been Blondie.
—For the Woman before him, this had been a cruel trial for her Disciple.
She had wanted to use the deaths of Tian Huo and the others to force her Disciple to grow up quickly and completely. Even if such a trial required the sacrifice of countless innocent people, she simply did not care.
Bai Zhi dared to say that even if he had not intervened back then, Tian Huo's Master would ultimately have awakened on her own through some arrangement, killed Blondie, and returned alone through the bloodshed.
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