"Old Wen, I told you—you got duped!" Little Illusion said smugly after showing Wenren Sheng the footage of the three of them.
"Ha, I never thought Old Li would lie too. Good thing I didn't cry, or wouldn't that have been a huge loss?" Wenren Sheng was not too upset after seeing the truth.
Instead, he felt somewhat relieved. At least Li Yuanfeng was not truly dead.
Still, he could not let the other man off. He had actually tricked him. The next time they met, Wenren Sheng would snatch the "Physical Body Reconstruction" skill back from him.
"I don't know whether you lost out or not, but I definitely didn't," Little Illusion said with a giggle, holding her treasure.
Wenren Sheng said nothing more and hurried home.
He was thinking about why Li Yuanfeng had deceived him.
No, the other man had not deceived him. He had merely concealed some information. Li Yuanfeng himself really would die, and after reconstructing his body, he could no longer use his old identity.
After all, it would be highly inconvenient for a young man to keep posing as an old grandmaster. Explaining it over and over again would be irritating enough.
It was simpler to use a new identity.
The later conversation between the three of them and Big Bear had pointed out a clear path for him.
So as long as one's strength reached the monsters' level, one could obtain autonomous status? He found a comparison in memories from his previous life. Were those colonial empires not just like monsters? They exploited their colonies and treated colonial people like cattle and beasts of burden.
Their collapse likewise had two causes.
First, the colonies completely gave up, leaving no profit to be gained from colonizing them. Second, the colonies' strength expanded to