Bai Ling gave Su Xin a deep look. Only now did she truly sense how frightening Su Xin was—not because of his strength, but because of his ability to see into people's hearts.
They said the White Lotus Sect excelled at bewitching people's minds, but in truth, Su Xin's methods were no worse than those of the White Lotus Sect.
The White Lotus Sect used illusions to stir the desires buried in people's hearts, while Su Xin laid the cruel facts right before you and let you choose the course most beneficial to yourself—even though you clearly knew that the one who stood to gain the most was Su Xin himself.
There was no one else in this space. Since she had already been seen through, Bai Ling no longer bothered to hide anything and directly explained the whole story.
The reason why Bai Ling, the Saintess, was irreconcilably opposed to the Black Lotus Holy Envoy and certain White Lotus Sect higher-ups was simple. In the end, it stemmed from the battle against Great Zhou more than twenty years ago.
Su Xin had naturally heard of that great battle between Great Zhou and the White Lotus Sect. As one of the Four Great Constables of the Six Fan Sect, he knew far more details than most.
In Su Xin's eyes, the White Lotus Sect had either lost their minds or collectively gotten water in their brains to do something so suicidally foolish.
At that time, Great Zhou had essentially secured the realm. Its external threats had been eliminated, while Great Jin had become Eastern Jin, barely clinging to life.
Its internal troubles had also faded away. The Sanxiang Martial Alliance had fallen apart, most of its experts had accepted Great Zhou's amnesty, and the Sanxiang Martial Alliance's leader, "Mad Lion"