If Erzhu He were here, he would surely be looking everywhere to see whether Jiang True Lord's eyes were hidden in this room.
Look at this little flatterer getting all puffed up! "the only truth"... Anyone who didn't know better would think he belonged to the One Truth Sect!
But everyone in the room remained silent.
River-Subduing True Lord might not remember your flattery, but how could he overlook the bad things you said?
"I never met Rao Bingzhang, yet from only a few words, I could sense his bearing."
Zhuge Zuo sat ramrod straight, his legs together. The book he usually read had been closed and laid across his knees. He cracked his knuckles over its cover.
"What a proud man Ji Zhaonan was—Rao Bingzhang surpassed even him. I had truly looked forward to his return. I wanted to see the 'True Peerless of the human world' Ji Zhaonan spoke of, to see that snow River-Subduing True Lord could never forget. But he had already sunk forever into the Demon Realm, and the fists of the Great Qi God of War had offered sacrifice for him. A figure like that, even if he truly returned... would not return in this manner."
Someone who returned in such an ugly manner would not be Rao Bingzhang, the man who "acted only after Three Thoughts."
Zhuge Zuo's judgment was not based on Rao Bingzhang's character or temperament, but because Rao Bingzhang had still been very young when he made his sacrifice.
Stretch the span of time to a thousand years, ten thousand years, and many things became impossible to predict.
The emptiness of time could kill many heroes.
Speaking of which, there were four people in the waiting room, but only three voices had been discussing things all along.
The young general