"Touch the Sky-Seers' cake?" I furrowed my brows. Xia Ruize's idea was far too contradictory, so it had come out of nowhere to me. But he wasn't insane. More often than not, there was profound meaning behind everything he did, and in the long run, all he left people with was wariness.
"That's right. The Sky-Seers' ideas are no longer suited to the environment we're in now. Call it burning the bridge after crossing the river, or rising against the tide of fate. Today is the best opportunity." Xia Ruize spoke without hesitation, as though he had long since had his plan firmly in hand.
"What do you mean?" I asked again.
"Their actions have always been unfathomable. We can't grasp their thoughts, and I imagine you understand that by now. Take our trip to the East Sea back then. They already had more than enough opportunities, yet afterward they even threw the entire Immortal City into the bargain, leaving me with the feeling that I could never control them. And the ideas they instilled were all things I deeply feared. If this continues, wasn't Ni Shi the one who suffered the most because of them? So I don't want to be their puppet on a string anymore. I want to change the world through my own strength. For that, I need your help." Xia Ruize spoke slowly.
"You mean that most of what you've done was directly or indirectly controlled by Hei Zi, and that you yourself had nothing to do with any of the bad things? With this idea of burning the bridge after crossing the river, how do you expect me to support you? Or should I say, what kind of person do you take me for?" I replied coldly. This wasn't what I wanted either.
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