Niu Youdao looked at him, at the miserable sight of this man who was neither human nor ghost, having barely clawed his way back from death.
Yuan Gang was certain it was him, but he did not know whether Niu Youdao had said anything. He gave him a reminder. "Daoist Master, I can't hear anymore, and I can't see either."
Niu Youdao said, "I know you can't hear, and I know you can't see. But what if you could hear and see? Whenever I told you there was a pit ahead, weren't you always like this—deaf and blind, insisting on walking straight into it? Monkey, no one can stand before every pit for you forever. There will always be times when they cannot watch over you."
Yuan Gang told him, "Daoist Master, Wu Chang is dead."
Niu Youdao said, "Yes, Wu Chang is dead. You did it. Perhaps everything you do is right every time, but this is not the way I want it done. So many things do not need to be taken to such extremes. We could have found another way to solve them. Why do you never leave yourself any room to retreat? I'm not afraid of Wu Chang—I'm afraid of you being like this!"
He truly had not expected this. He had considered all sorts of ways to deal with it, even the possibility of finding a way to seal Wu Chang inside the Fifth Domain if all else failed. Never in his wildest dreams had he expected Wu Chang to be dealt with in this manner.
He had not expected Yuan Gang's willingness to die to spur the others into joining forces and driving Wu Chang to his death.
Nor had he expected Wu Chang to end himself by self-detonation. There had been no warning