Wang Hao frankly admitted his intentions.
Seeing this, Liu Yidao nodded in satisfaction.
"Now it all makes sense. Before, I truly couldn't understand why you, Second Master, wanted to take on a disciple—why you wanted to burden yourself with deadweight."
"Only now do I understand. You weren't burdening yourself with deadweight. You were refining your own Demon Heart."
"You sought out the goodness buried deep within your heart, then personally killed it."
"That way, your Demon Heart would rise to a whole new level."
"Exactly!"
Wang Hao nodded seriously. "Erasing one's humanity is an exceedingly painful thing. Whether you are a demon or a Buddha, you must endure that pain that cuts to the marrow."
"So when you left, I repeatedly warned you to be careful of Chen Changsheng, careful of women, and wary of anyone besides yourself."
"But unfortunately, you remembered not a single one of my three warnings."
"To survive, you took the initiative to approach Chen Changsheng. That was your first mistake."
"And precisely because of that first mistake, the second mistake followed in quick succession."
"You encountered Wang Shanhuo during your Mortal World Trial. Though that violated a taboo, as long as you didn't care too much, time would smooth everything over."
"But unfortunately, that fellow Chen Changsheng kept deepening your impression of Wang Shanhuo, causing you to sink deep into it, unable to pull yourself free."
"As for the third point, it was entirely because you were too arrogant."
"You believed your wisdom was extraordinary and that no one could possibly scheme against you, so you got tangled up with good people like Jun Lin."
"Judging from the outcome, Jun Lin and the others truly did not scheme against you, nor did they intentionally mean to."
"You calculated everything, but you alone were left out