This Great Sage was Daoist Qinghuang. Back then, he had once been aided by Gai Jiuyou.
Gai Jiuyou had supported him.
That was precisely why Daoist Qinghuang looked so resentful as he gazed at Adam. He knew that Adam's way through the trials had completely amounted to playing the pig to lure the tiger.
Yes, even after carrying an imperial weapon and easily suppressing a Great Sage along the way, such achievements still counted as playing the pig and luring the tiger.
Anyone who truly thought that bringing an imperial weapon to counter Adam's imperial weapon would let them suppress him with their superior cultivation would only be met by a second, third, fourth... imperial weapon, and fully revived ones at that.
Daoist Qinghuang had every reason to suspect that Adam was waiting for someone to attack him with an imperial weapon so he could seize both the person and the weapon.
Adam awkwardly took a sip of cola. Gai Jiuyou really was something else—how could he expose Adam's dirty laundry like that?
And was Adam really that sort of person?
He would definitely let the people go afterward, all right!
After Adam held a sincere discussion with the Human Race Ancient Road protectors led by Daoist Qinghuang, they finally concluded with Adam being free to travel the Human Race Ancient Road, while the protectors conducted their own investigation and purged the traitors among them.
After all, the Human Race Ancient Road had yet to open, and Adam's deeds were currently known only within it. Besides, he had merely converted the people at the earlier trials; he had not killed them.
Hadn't Amitabha Great Emperor converted his way through the trials before becoming an emperor? It was not as though there were no precedents. They could just go through the