Yun Che considered briefly. "Not entirely true. At least, I don't believe he would be so selfless as to repair the fissure in the Evergreen Stele for the sake of the so-called whole world. He must have desires and goals of his own, and probably substantial ones."
Ye Qingshuang nodded. "That's what I think too. If he really couldn't take any action at all, how could he simply let Ji Boda steal the Dao Fruit and do nothing? Perhaps this was a scheme to reap the benefits all along. We and Ji Boda would both suffer, and he would collect the spoils, securing the Divine Word origin while dumping the mess of repairing the fissure and fighting the demons on you."
Qin Yelan also offered her analysis. "He had bad intentions from the start. He deliberately held this Venerable Battle, expending origin power instead of dealing with Ji Boda and watching him cause all this trouble, just to use us to eliminate him. That way, he could recover the stolen Dao Fruit fragments and push the responsibility of fighting the Demon God Ancestors onto you. Whatever the outcome, he stood to gain without losing anything. Even if you really did repair the fissure and stop the demons for him in the end, he would simply get the result he wanted without suffering any losses."
Zu Tangtang shook her head slightly and said gravely, "I think this is far more complicated than we imagine. He must still be hiding things we don't know about. Besides, he never said a word about the identities of Windbreaker Man and the others who could enter the Evergreen Stele Battlefield at will. I find it hard to believe they don't know each other."
Cao Taichun's gaze turned vicious as he said shrilly, "If we could