I hadn't expected Tang Tianming to contact me of his own accord.
Grandmaster's divination had truly come to pass. The turning point in the Tang Family's fate had appeared.
The opening for that turning point lay with Tang Tianming.
If he hadn't contacted me and had simply kept his position secure, I would have had no opening and no way to reach him. It would have been like facing a second organization, leading to an even more protracted tug-of-war.
I might have spent next year and the year after constantly fighting them and fleeing.
Now that Tang Tianming had contacted me himself, he had revealed the first sign of the Tang Family's "peak prosperity must decline."
"Peak prosperity must decline" referred to the inevitable decline of something after it reached its zenith. It was a natural law, reflected in the patterns of change in all things.
That was why even Confucianism emphasized the "doctrine of the mean," pursuing what was reasonable rather than what was best. The best things often brought only extreme risks and harm, causing people to follow the same course of peak prosperity followed by decline in their dealings with others.
For example, a stock posed the greatest risk when its price reached its peak.
When people pursued absolute cleanliness, their immunity declined.
People who held the greatest wealth and power often found themselves walking on thin ice.
As for a group made up of many people, once it reached its zenith, it should logically have been able to continue operating indefinitely. Yet history told us that once such a group reached its peak, internal problems often began to emerge, revealing the first signs of its disintegration.
Alternatively, its leader's mindset would begin to change, gradually leading the group toward destruction.
Without a doubt, the Tang Family's