Niu Youdao said blandly, "Even without this, Ding Wei would have settled accounts with me sooner or later. I hadn't planned to be so direct at first, but Lü Wushuang ran into it. I had no choice."
Sha Rulai nodded slightly, understanding what he meant. Drawing Xuan Yao into action had originally been a setup to make the fake death seem natural and justified. Dragging in the matter of a Boundless Garden mole was meant to bring disaster upon Xuan Yao. Once the matter of the Boundless Fruit was traced to Xuan Yao, how could Ding Wei possibly escape unscathed? He would naturally be implicated.
Little did he know that he had overthought it. This was merely the reasonable explanation Niu Youdao had given him.
How could he know that dragging in the Boundless Garden was because Niu Youdao wanted to steal the Boundless Fruit? Using Xuan Yao's vendetta as cover was only meant to ensure his smooth escape.
At the beginning, Niu Youdao had not intended to make matters so complicated either. This was no trivial affair, and he had not dared make it overly complex, lest it slip beyond his control. Yet Lü Wushuang had suddenly appeared and left him with no alternative but to adapt to circumstances. Better a dead fellow cultivator than a dead poor cultivator—thus, he had complicated the situation!
Driven to that point, from his perspective, this turn of events might not necessarily have been a bad thing.
Besides, he had originally planned to leak some clues about Xuan Yao's assassination attempt to the investigators. With Lü Wushuang's intervention, that was no longer necessary.
"You really do have a strong vengeful streak. You won't let them go even in death." Having figured it out, Sha Rulai shot Niu Youdao a sidelong glance.
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