Uchiha Shin listened to Old Yan while pondering.
Back in the Ghost Soul Domain, he had heard Nuwa say that Chiyou was one of her people—someone she had personally taught.
Nuwa had done this to use Chiyou against Taishang Laojun, but from what Old Yan had just said, Chiyou seemed a little too impulsive.
Nuwa had likely helped Chiyou because she wanted him to become the ruler of humanity, govern the human race, and make it better, rather than let humanity fall into the hands of Taishang Laojun and the Three Pure Ones.
Yet Taishang Laojun and the others had supported the Yellow Emperor. Chiyou had failed to overcome them and instead fled in defeat to the Ghost Soul Domain.
In Uchiha Shin's view, Chiyou's defeat was not because he lacked the ability. He had the ability; he had merely chosen the wrong time.
If he had waited longer—until the Yellow Emperor grew old and left the mortal world, or until the Yellow Emperor gradually lost the people's support and was betrayed by everyone under heaven—then, if Chiyou had raised an army, all beneath heaven would have gathered in response. He would have had a chance to become the ruler of humanity.
But because the Yellow Emperor's oppression of Chiyou's Nine Li tribe had gone too far, Chiyou had been forced to resist. It was also because Chiyou was a man of true temperament.
Taishang Laojun and the others had likely chosen the Yellow Emperor as humanity's ruler precisely because they valued this aspect of his personality. They knew that after becoming the ruler of humanity, he would oppress Chiyou and the Flame Emperor, leaving them no chance to claim dominion over the world.
Uchiha Shin shook his head. Taishang Laojun's calculations were truly meticulous.
If Chiyou had entered the