Just as expected of you—knowing nothing, yet taking it all for granted without the slightest shame.
Xiang Yuan sighed. "Master, the mastermind imprisoned you in the small world formed from Yan Xuanhe's death. The mastermind is the Heavenly Emperor reborn, and so are you. Knowing he couldn't keep you contained, he locked you up anyway. That's the first suspicious point."
"When you returned to the Heavenly Sect, he never showed himself directly. He halfheartedly fought you, then handed the Heavenly Sect over to you. That's the second suspicious point."
"What do you mean, halfheartedly?!"
Ji Wuzhou's eyes went wide. "Clearly, he knew he could do nothing to your master. Further entanglement would have been meaningless, so he decisively admitted defeat and fled."
"..." x2
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Don't you have any idea yourself whether that's true or not?
Xiang Yuan rolled his eyes. Thinking of himself split into three, he seriously suspected Ji Wuzhou was the Heavenly Emperor's foolish side—with additional flaws like being a salted fish, lying flat, and shamelessness. Ji Wuzhou was the ultimate masterpiece of a garbage bin after the Heavenly Emperor's reincarnation.
The Heavenly Emperor had thrown every bad side of himself onto Ji Wuzhou.
"Master, there are no outsiders here. You should have some guesses about the truth. Tell me—after going through all this trouble, what exactly is the mastermind plotting against you?"
"I don't know."
Ji Wuzhou shook his head. Ji Wuzhou was not being cryptic; he genuinely did not know.
Xiang Yuan was utterly numb. Xiang Yuan opened his mouth, then stopped himself, suppressing the urge to unleash a stream of profanities. "Fine, then let's talk about what we do know..."
Xiang Yuan recounted the Dragon-Locking Evil Array, the schemes that had killed the Western Chu royal family through the Book of Life and Death,