"The point?" Gu Yuanqing laughed despite himself.
Wei Zhao said gravely, "With the experience of last time, the Guixu Alliance will certainly be harder to resist this time. I cannot hold them off alone."
"If you cannot hold them off, why come to me? Isn't Wei Yuan still here?" Gu Yuanqing said mildly.
Wei Zhao frowned. "Why ask when you already know—"
Gu Yuanqing cut him off, saying indifferently, "Do not tell me he is suppressing the Demon Lord. It is not your father who truly suppresses the Demon Lord, but the Mirror of Rebirth. Wei Zhao, you and I both know the truth. In the past, I simply chose not to expose it. Did you really think I did not know?
"Your father wants to use the Mirror of Rebirth to become a God King, so he has you fend off the Guixu Alliance's attacks. You two are father and son. No one else has any say in how you handle that.
"But to have me fight the Guixu Alliance while Wei Yuan cultivates in the Ancient Realm to achieve his breakthrough—do you think I am utterly selfless, or do you think I am naive?"
Wei Zhao said, "You have misunderstood, Daoist Friend Gu. Resisting the Guixu Alliance benefits us both.
"The Mirror of Rebirth could indeed suppress the Demon Lord back then, but after all these years, the Demon Lord has long since found a way to resist its power. Otherwise, my father would not be plagued by his demonic qi.
"The main reason my father has not taken action is to coordinate our response from the center. The rules of the Boundary Gate separate the Fa Yuan Realm and the God Ruins from the Ancient Realm, but no one knows whether they have other ways to enter.