"Scholar said you couldn't take the Heavenly Dao Cultivation Pill. That confirms you have some special cultivation method."
"And if I remembered correctly..."
"That Nonsense Trait happened to raise one's cultivation through lies and deception!"
"No, that's not right either, not right either."
Fat Dragon slapped his own head. He felt like his brain was about to explode, his brows tightly furrowed. "But you never even spoke. How could you deceive anyone? And your cultivation clearly hasn't reached the Golden Core realm. The Imperial Preceptor's cultivation couldn't possibly be below Golden Core."
Scholar's younger brother did not say a word.
Fat Dragon had already overturned his own logic countless times.
Afterward, Fat Dragon ignored Scholar's younger brother as well. He sat beside the bonfire in silence, seriously pondering. He still felt that his reasoning was not wrong. Even if the Imperial Preceptor was not Scholar's younger brother...
Still.
The Imperial Preceptor's target might truly have been Scholar from beginning to end. Ji Taiping had merely been a whetstone.
Otherwise, if the Imperial Preceptor's target had been Ji Taiping, why would Ji Taiping's realm be so unstable? The Imperial Preceptor certainly would not want the world's foremost sword cultivator to have an unstable realm.
Proving this would be simple.
If one day in the future, Ji Renjian suddenly learned the truth and shifted her affection to Scholar, allowing Scholar to use this wisp of Heavenly Dao Beauty's effect to advance his comprehension of sword intent by an entire realm...
Then it could be confirmed that Scholar was the Great Xia's foremost sword cultivator, personally forged by the Imperial Preceptor.
Over all these years, the Imperial Preceptor must have used all manner of methods to implant psychological suggestions in Ji Renjian, telling her that the one she truly loved was not Ji