At that question, I stared wide-eyed and tongue-tied, secretly marveling that Xia Ruize had truly outdone himself this time. He could even think of something like this!
"Being so selfish, aren't you afraid Xiaoxue will be dragged into this too?" I gritted out as I launched more than a dozen attacks in succession, but he blocked them all with ease.
That fellow's swordsmanship was no longer entirely the Sword Dao of the Square Inch, nor was it purely an offensive style. It faintly carried traces of the Supreme of the Huanyu as well. After all, having seized the Huanyu Heaven, he could also absorb the necessary abilities from the suppressed split soul!
"I was wondering how you could possibly let Li Poxiao go. So you had already calculated everything!" I thought that Li Poxiao was practically an idiot. Compared with Xia Ruize, his intelligence was utterly crushed.
I had known that before Xia Ruize finished plotting, he would certainly lie low and preserve himself. Once he finished plotting, the overall situation would basically become impossible to reverse!
Li Poxiao especially—he had foolishly gone and created a split. This was going to be fun. Xia Ruize had reversed the situation with a single move, and now he and the Three Purities were the ones in the most passive position.
I had actually launched the war at the very first opportunity, swallowing up a good deal of Xia Ruize's Huanyu Heaven territory. If I had really stupidly followed my original plan to establish a tripartite balance, I would have been the one at a disadvantage!
"Heh heh. Yitian, the human heart is unfathomable. You've always been shrewd and never let yourself suffer a loss. How did you fail to consider that I might set my sights on the Liangyi Heaven this time?"