Everyone should have self-awareness and should not try to be clever.
But clearly, people who tried to be clever would not think they were being clever. That was precisely the greatest lack of self-awareness.
Shangguan Yun was clearly also someone without self-awareness.
Ever since obtaining the Chamu Tribe's Dragon Pearls, he had spared no effort in slaughtering people everywhere for years, not even sparing his own wife, all to acquire more Dragon Pearls. He had lived in seclusion, studying methods of using the Dragon Pearls to gain greater power.
In the end, he successfully gained stronger power. His strength gradually rose from being merely on par with Meng Baichuan, the master of the Myriad Poisons Gate, to the Heavenly Being 9th Realm, and he had even condensed the Three Flowers.
The Dragon Pearls naturally deserved much of the credit for this rapid and tremendous improvement. They also drove him to seek more Dragon Pearls to break through to the True Return Realm, causing him to neglect the cultivation of his temperament.
His overly rapid increase in strength not only fueled his ambition but also inflated his confidence and twisted his mind.
It had made him arrogant, paranoid, and insane.
That was why, when Meng Baichuan and the others intended to surrender to the Black Wind Stronghold Master, he chose to stubbornly kill Meng Baichuan and the others, going so mad that he became an enemy of the Black Wind Stronghold Master.
Unfortunately, the arrogant and paranoid Shangguan Yun at this point would never think he had done anything wrong.
Or rather, from the perspective of profit, Shangguan Yun had not actually made the wrong choice.
As long as he took the other two Dragon Pearls from Meng Baichuan and Qiu Tangbai after killing Meng Baichuan and the others, he alone