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[Having said your piece, you said no more. You simply stood quietly, waiting for Wang Hao's response.]
[The atmosphere was unbearably heavy. Wang Hao remained silent for a long time before finally letting out a long sigh, breaking the deathly silence:]
["Ultimately, that is merely your conjecture. Besides, have you never considered that Li Ping revealed all this to you precisely to use your hands to confront me?"]
[Your expression did not change. You simply continued to reject his explanation:]
["Perhaps that is indeed the case. His motives are obscure, and perhaps equally impure. But now, I would rather believe it exists than believe it does not!"]
["However..."]
[You shifted the conversation, your gaze blazing like a torch:]
["If my guess is correct, something must have gone wrong with your plan.]
[Something must have happened along the way that drew Li Ping's attention.]
[For instance... during the [Third Group Mission], when we escorted the [fully ripened Era Fruit], your situation at the time was surely not as breezy and effortless as you described!"]
[Your Dao Resonance drifted forth, edged with piercing insight:]
["My guess... is that Li Ping, or the higher-dimensional being behind him, launched a deadly ambush against you, forcing you to expose part of the background of the being behind you.]
[Or perhaps... Li Ping also possesses the ability to foresee the future, only his foresight does not reach as far as yours!"]
[Each link in your analysis fitted neatly into the next. Even you felt that its logic was flawless.]
["That, in turn, exposed a little of your background, or that of the higher-dimensional being from the [future] behind you, prompting Li Ping to use me to probe you."]
[At those words, Wang Hao's façade of an immortal sage