Chapter 178: Covert War (5)
What? He just admitted it!
Fu Qian's out-of-nowhere declaration stunned everyone in the room.
"I'm just saving everyone some time. We're all busy, after all."
Fu Qian raised his head, wearing a somewhat manic smile.
"That's right. I arranged everything, and I'm the one who killed them. Ruan Shuo was just under my control, pushed out as a scapegoat."
"Unfortunately..."
He sighed.
"I planned for everything, but didn't expect Dean Li to emerge from seclusion early. It seems Heaven itself wants me dead."
"Dean Li's swordsmanship is godlike. I don't think I stand a chance against him. You can execute me right here. I won't resist."
"Why... why would you do this?"
After hearing Fu Qian's words, Lanaia was stunned. She couldn't help asking.
"There's no point saying more. Do it!"
Fu Qian didn't answer. He just smiled at Li Weixuan.
Just as "it" hadn't died when Fu Qian killed Li Weixuan earlier, Fu Qian strongly suspected that even if he died now, he wouldn't truly cease to exist.
He might even merge his consciousness with the swarm and become something like "it," making the contamination impossible to eradicate.
And there were two reasons for that.
First, he had been infused with Sword Intent. Second, he had become aware of the swarm's existence.
Both were necessary.
That was also why "it" was so sensitive to blasphemers. Becoming aware of "it" was itself a form of contamination.
Otherwise, "it" wouldn't need to go to such lengths to guide him into severing the connection himself. It could simply wait for Li Weixuan to emerge as a demigod, then repeat what had happened last time.
Unless killing him without first severing his connection to the swarm was an outcome "it" couldn't accept.
Of course, these were only guesses.