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Now I finally knew the true reason my grandfather Ren Zhi had targeted me, yet because of it, I no longer knew what choice to make! Decades of planning ahead, decades of painstaking preparation—all of it had been to wait for the Ancestral Dragon's fortune to descend upon me, let me grow into adulthood, then await me in the Nine Provinces Realm, so I could lead the Jie Sect and help all living beings under Heaven find a way to deal with the natural disasters.
Ren Zhi was a good man, someone willing to sacrifice the minor principles for the greater cause. Sacrificing Hua Ke for countless people was not excessive either. Killing one to save ten million was, after all, a heroic deed. But how could I agree to sacrifice Hua Ke? Wan Songxiao's move had been like driving a knife straight into my heart!
What was frightening was that, back then, on the border of the Lesser Heavenly Court, he had even deliberately said he wanted to adopt the child. The depth of this man's scheming left me unable to do anything but admire him!
"Isn't there any other way? I can't kill Hua Ke! What if I stay farther away from her?" I couldn't kill this child! I had already indirectly killed her once in her previous life. I was guilty enough as it was. Could I really kill her a second time? Besides, regardless of whether the child was Tang Ke's reincarnation, looking at what she was like now, could I truly bring myself to do it?
Such an adorable child—she was innocent. What kind of logic was this clash of fortunes?
"From the moment you acknowledged her as your goddaughter, there was no other solution. Fortunes give rise to and suppress one another, and