Wisdom flickered in Bai Ze's eyes as he spoke to Fairy Qingqing.
"Fairy, you planned everything from within the command tent."
"Taiyi... Fellow Daoist Tai Er went at just the right time."
With his wisdom, of course he had known Daoist Zhunti would make a move, but his own understanding of the Buddha Path was insufficient, and he had not expected Daoist Zhunti to turn karma into a blade and cut his way into the mortal dust.
Zhou Qingqing gave a derisive laugh. "Lay down the butcher's knife and become a Buddha on the spot—that is a Western maxim too, yet they themselves cannot do it."
"What happened to Red Cloud already explained some things."
Bai Ze's wisdom began to turn.
What happened to Red Cloud?
Red Cloud Ancestor in Purple Cloud Palace had indeed clashed with the Two Sages of the West, but he had been stopped by Upper Pure Master Tongtian.
But since Fairy had spoken so certainly, that situation must have happened in another spacetime.
Bai Ze already knew the truth of the Primordial World's reincarnations, and now, through Fairy's assertion, he guessed that in those reincarnations, Red Cloud must have had quite a karmic entanglement with the Two Sages of the West.
Otherwise, Fairy would not have complained about them like this.
"As the ruler of the Shang Dynasty, Di Yi was still wise and enlightened."
"His name truly is not on the Investiture of the Gods List, so naturally he cannot enter the list."
"But when I was fusing the Dao into my body, I discovered Tianyi Star."
Zhou Qingqing stretched out a finger and pointed from afar at a star in the Starry Sky Heavenly Realm.
"If the Human Dao had not separated from the Heavenly Dao, then these rulers would all count as