"'Time,' your tricks are far too crude." Du Yu instantly saw through everything and spoke coldly.
"The 'Seven Outstanding Disciples of the Sage' and Xiao Qi you created are certainly flawless, but you don't understand me. I kept the Seven Outstanding Disciples of the Sage by my side and dragged them into dangerous Legends to 'protect myself.' So I would never say something like that. I feel deeply 'sorry' toward them. Next time, you'll have to rewrite my lines."
But no one answered him. Silence still awaited Du Yu.
"Brother... why has Senior Du Yu become like this?" Shiranui Asuka looked toward where the "Sage" had left, her expression deeply sorrowful. "I really feel like I don't know him anymore..."
"It's because he's been deceived far too many times." Xie Yujiao, who had remained silent for a long while, suddenly spoke from beside them. "His tragic fate was sealed the moment he entered the Underworld."
"The moment he entered the Underworld?" Everyone was puzzled. "A'jiao, did you know the 'Sage' when he entered the Underworld?"
Xie Yujiao silently shook her head and answered, "Of course I didn't, but I heard Old Ancestor Xie Bi'an talk about it. At the very beginning... Grand Judge Cui Jue simply picked a reasonably clever-looking young man at random from the wandering souls waiting in line and sent him to the Legend Management Bureau to become an 'Assistant.' The two made a deal. Cui Jue hoped this man could help him change history so that he wouldn't become the 'Grand Judge,' while the young man asked Cui Jue to let him jump the reincarnation queue. But no one expected that young man to have the constitution of an Operator. By a sheer fluke, he completed the Legend 'Yi Shoots Down Nine Suns' in one fell