"Wow, Sect Master Chen, you're being way too direct about throwing in your lot with us, aren't you?" I found it amusing. Chen Fa's change of sides had happened far too quickly.
"Elder Xia, you could call this knowing which way the wind blows. What's the difference between working for one person or another? Working for the Three Sect Masters was fine, but people climb upward while water flows downward. Now that your Heaven's Unity Sect has three great desolate beasts, it's clearly not what it used to be. Even the Three Sect Masters are practically reduced to carrying your shoes, while the Pill Cloud Sect doesn't even deserve to carry them. So, just as you said, Elder Xia, as someone carrying dreams in his heart, shouldn't I have ideas of my own?" Chen Fa had even searched through my words for idioms to quote. It seemed he truly intended to walk this road with me all the way into the darkness.
"You really intend to join the Heaven's Unity Sect?" I shook my head, utterly speechless at such a shameless turncoat. But in the Great Wilderness, this was nothing unusual. Snow Qingcheng and I had once belonged to the Azure Emperor Sect as well, and now we were even considering swallowing it up. The weak were prey to the strong—that was the choice survival imposed. Even I had no way to reject such a mode of survival. After all, I had promised He Luanzi and the Three Sect Masters. Even if I had only concealed my intentions, it still amounted to compromising with the strong. The difference between me and Chen Fa truly wasn't that great; I was merely not as brazenly shameless as he was.
"Of course. Look at how badly you've bullied your brother here. I want