After hearing what Xiao Can said, Lu Yin's eyes flickered. "You were brought here because of your Wisdom Root?"
Xiao Can had long since grown numb. Weary, he said, "I was a fool. I was selfish. After entering the Backside Battlefield, I was afraid of dying, so I traded my Wisdom Root for a chance to leave early. I even used it to buy Commander Wang Xun's protection while I was there. If I hadn't been such a coward, so afraid of death, how would the Wang family have targeted me and brought me here, where I can never leave? I brought this on myself."
Lu Yin understood. So it was Wang Xun.
Xiao Can had indeed said before that he'd traded his Wisdom Root for the protection of the Third Formation Base's commander, as well as a chance to leave the Backside Battlefield early. He had left, but the Wang family had also learned that he possessed a Wisdom Root.
Wang Xun wouldn't strike at him in the Backside Battlefield, but he would after Xiao Can left.
Back then, Xiao Can had been desperate to leave the Backside Battlefield. Perhaps Wang Xun had been even more eager than he was.
That was fate. If Xiao Can hadn't been so afraid of death and tried to leave the Backside Battlefield early, perhaps his life would have turned out differently. Of course, he might have died there instead—but to him now, even that would have been better than this.
Lu Yin suddenly thought of the phrase "what goes around comes around." Was there really such a thing as karma?
Watching Xiao Can walk away, Lu Yin still wanted to save him, if he could. Not because of the Wisdom Root, but because he wanted to know how Xiao Can was connected