"Then why did you make your move ahead of time in the battle at Cloud Edge Temple?"
The woman was puzzled.
Burning Lamp Buddha smiled. "It was merely a test. I never truly entered the fray."
"A test of what?"
"When Rahu Demon Ancestor returned alive from the Electrocution Demon Cave, I already sensed that something was amiss."
Burning Lamp Buddha said, "As far as I knew, he had been trapped on the Ninth Floor of the Dao Transformation Blood Cave and was doomed to die. Yet strangely, he actually walked out alive."
After a pause, he continued, "To be frank, we belong to the same camp after all. I had previously tried to find a way to lend him a hand, at the very least to preserve his life."
"And I did indeed do so. It was then that I discovered a Space-Time Forbidden Land hidden on the Ninth Floor of the Dao Transformation Blood Cave. Guarding that forbidden land was an extremely dangerous figure."
"That man called himself a Great Emperor from the 'Five Emperors Epoch,' with the Dao title Heavenly Extremes."
Burning Lamp Buddha furrowed his brow. "If nothing unexpected happened, he was someone who had already touched the threshold of the River of Destiny."
"And Rahu Demon Ancestor was captured alive by that man."
"That was why I did not act rashly back then."
"But now, Rahu Demon Ancestor, who had become prey, returned alive. Naturally, that was highly abnormal."
After a pause, Burning Lamp Buddha said, "That alone would not have been enough for me to suspect Su Yi. The key was that Feng Wuji, Rahu Demon Ancestor's descendant, had crossed paths with Su Yi!"
"And I suspect that Feng Wuji asked Su Yi to act, allowing him to rescue Rahu Demon Ancestor from Heavenly