Between clever people, there was no need to say too much, nor was there any need to spell everything out.
The true cause of this situation stemmed from a sudden thought that had come to Liu Dongqing in that lightning-flash instant, when his mind had spun at breakneck speed.
Before this, Liu Dongqing had yet to decide how he should respond to the summons of this calamity's spiritual opportunity.
But at the very instant that stray thought abruptly arose,
Liu Dongqing suddenly began to ponder it over, belatedly realizing something.
Back when Zhuang Wanqing had destroyed the original copy and all manner of duplicates of the Nayin Five Elements Secret Scripture, then secretly passed it on to him, she might have concealed the deed as thoroughly as possible.
When it had happened, Qingyuan Dao Lord perhaps had not truly witnessed it himself.
But when Zhuang Wanqing had truly been "abducted" by him, when all her plans had truly been brought to fruition,
and when Qingyuan Dao Lord had intended to use a talisman that pierced Heaven and Earth to anchor him upon the level of fate, erupting with killing intent and threat—
had he truly sensed nothing on the level of fate?
Liu Dongqing himself, relying on the Heavenly Celebration Canopy Diagram of All Virtues and the <Matter-Bearing Origin-Gathering Virtue-Transforming Diagram>, could clearly sense even the slightest, finest changes in the fateful spiritual opportunities bestowed upon him by Heaven and Earth.
And Qingyuan Dao Lord, who had begun weaving his way through the Dao of fate bit by bit, like casting a web, not long after the revival of the Yang World's Heaven and Earth had begun—or perhaps even earlier—thus creating his present composed situation.
Had he truly sensed nothing?
Perhaps not!
Perhaps Qingyuan Dao Lord's retreat back then had