Gu Qingshan looked at the words "Heroes Vying for the Throne" and "The Six Paths Competing for Supremacy" on the wall and couldn't help shaking his head.
Evidence.
He had no evidence at all to prove his theory.
"Yo-yo, the deer call; they eat the field's artemisia."
Deer, eating.
How was that any different from people eating?
It wasn't.
Was there some special meaning to having a meal?
At this thought, Gu Qingshan sighed.
—There were too many possible interpretations. They didn't even need to be extended; the words already had their most basic meaning.
He had been separated from his master for too long. He had no idea what she had encountered recently, what she was thinking, or what she was doing.
Without knowing the situation at all, any conclusions he drew were meaningless.
His judgment just now had been based entirely on instinct.
—What if his instinct was wrong?
Instinct...
The reason he'd developed this instinct was everything he'd experienced.
Gu Qingshan pondered, then slowly turned to look at the World-Defining Divine Sword.
Eating field artemisia.
Field.
The field meant the wild. Could that be extended to mean something that didn't belong to you?
If he used the World-Defining Divine Sword as an analogy—
It had originally come from the Void, but in the end had been left among the Six Paths, becoming the Six Paths World-Defining Divine Sword and guarding the Great Tomb on behalf of the Six Paths of Reincarnation.
The deer ate things from the wild.
No matter what his master thought or how she interpreted it, at any rate, this poem fit the World-Defining Divine Sword.
But that still wasn't evidence...
Gu Qingshan couldn't help asking, "World-Defining, is there really no secret you can tell me?"
The long sword circled him once and said,