If the Imperial Way Alliance had known that Zhang Tie already knew Xuanyuan Wuji's identity within the Imperial Way Alliance...
If Xuanyuan Wuji had known that Zhang Tie had the nerve to kill him...
If Xuanyuan Wuji had truly understood the courage Zhang Tie had shown when, still relatively weak, he had been bullied in Black Flame City yet dared to turn completely against his oppressors...
If Xuanyuan Wuji still held even a measure of awe for the two words "Thousand-Machine" in Zhang Tie's title...
Then the Sect Black Posts of those three great sects might never have been issued, and everything to come might have changed completely.
But unfortunately, there could be countless ifs, while reality often offered only one outcome.
Whether it was Xuanyuan Wuji or those Saint-level leaders within the Imperial Way Alliance, all they thought of at this moment was the necessity and urgency of suppressing Zhang Tie, along with the many benefits it would bring them. Not one of them considered that even a rabbit would bite when driven to desperation. Zhang Tie was no rabbit—he was a powerful God's Dominator. If Zhang Tie were driven to desperation, it would be far more than biting someone. Many people would be left with blood flowing like rivers.
They believed they had Zhang Tie completely in their grasp, that Zhang Tie could do nothing to the three great sects, so they pressed forward step by step, leaving him no room whatsoever. Yet they did not know that when they left Zhang Tie no room, they were also leaving none for themselves. Zhang Tie had never been someone who would endure others coming to his door to bully him without striking back.
Killing Xuanyuan Wuji would, first, avenge a grievance; second, serve as a counterattack; and third,