Zhang Wuji felt incomparably ashamed at that moment, so much so that he wished he could find a crack in the ground and crawl into it.
Seeing Ye Weiming confronting the Yuan Mongols while holding Wang Baobao hostage made him feel even more ashamed. Yet, out of responsibility as the leader of a sect, he immediately strode forward, lowered his head, and said, "Uncle Ye, I'm sorry! I failed your expectations. My crime deserves ten thousand deaths!"
"Wuji, there is no need to blame yourself."
Ye Weiming had no intention whatsoever of blaming Zhang Wuji. Instead, he encouragingly patted his shoulder and said earnestly, "As the saying goes, a setback makes one wiser. What child never makes mistakes? Just learn from this lesson and don't trust people so casually in the future."
Yet the more Ye Weiming said this, the more unbearable Zhang Wuji's shame became.
After all, Ye Weiming had originally used Zhao Min as a hostage to negotiate with the Yuan Mongols, firmly holding the initiative in his hands. The reason things had ended up like this was entirely because Zhang Wuji had stubbornly gone his own way and trusted Zhao Min!
As the Ming Cult Leader, he could not even manage something as simple as keeping watch over Zhao Min! After such a disastrous performance, how could he possibly face Ye Weiming's encouragement?
At that moment, Zhang Wuji felt that the debt he owed Ye Weiming had reached an irredeemable extent.
Seeing Zhang Wuji so guilt-ridden and uneasy, Ye Weiming knew the heat was about right. Making him feel ashamed was enough. Given the system rules, even if Zhang Wuji were ashamed enough to want to kill himself, he could not actually produce anything especially valuable to make up for it.
If Ye Weiming kept making him