Lai Caisheng's lips twitched faintly, as though he wanted to say something, but Gongsun Shiyu's hand was like an iron clamp, nearly crushing his throat.
Crack.
Gongsun Shiyu suddenly exerted force with his palm, and Lai Caisheng's neck immediately lost its support... His head drooped down as a result.
"The answer is, no matter what you calculate, I'll kill you anyway." Gongsun Shiyu let out a sinister laugh and casually threw Lai Caisheng to the ground.
"You...you killed him!" Behind him, Gongsun Zhishui climbed onto the sacrificial platform. Seeing Lai Caisheng lying motionless on the ground where he had been thrown... his expression changed slightly.
Gongsun Shiyu sneered. "No one is beyond killing."
This had gone somewhat beyond Gongsun Zhishui's expectations... Lai Caisheng had been one of the masterminds behind the Spiritual Energy Revival plan. Now, at this critical juncture, Lai Caisheng had been killed just like that... What was this supposed to mean?
Everything... refused to develop according to plan. There were always so many variables.
"But you killed him, so no one will preside over the final stage... If the spiritual energy of the land ultimately fails to revive, won't everything we've done before have been in vain?" Gongsun Zhishui could not help frowning.
Gongsun Shiyu had chosen not to kill him for now... He probably would not have such intentions in the short term, or he would not have kept him alive this whole time... He had asked because he was genuinely lost about the chaos that would follow, while also testing the other man's bottom line.
"Naive. Do you really think that, aside from Buyi Dao, there is no one else in this world, and no other way to revive the spiritual energy of the land?" Gongsun Shiyu sneered.
Gongsun Zhishui opened and closed his mouth