"To tell you the truth, when I went after that Silver-Winged Tiger that day, I encountered a Silver-Haired Old Woman in the Silver Frost Forest. She arranged all of this, and I needed to leave the Spirit Taming Sect to become a Dao Zun, so I tricked you into going there. As for her reasons, I truly do not know."
"Was she the one who told you to leave the Heavenly Son Nine-Demon Art for me?"
"Indeed..."
Qing Mao had cleared up one of Mu Bai's doubts, yet Mu Bai grew even more bewildered. Although he did not know why Granny Blood Phoenix had arranged things this way, when he thought of her tempering his body in the Thunder Pool, of the Devil Race Supreme Inheritance in the Kunling Sect's devil cavern, and of the Devil Race Awakening now taking place in the Western Plains, all of this must have been deliberately arranged.
"Why arrange for me to walk this path?"
So far, Mu Bai had benefited immensely from this path, but he disliked the feeling of being maneuvered and controlled. If someone controlled him, then even if he grew immensely powerful, he would still be a pawn in someone else's hands.
"Elder Qing Mao, I truly admire you for organizing the Human Race cultivators of the Western Plains to resist the Devil Race army through your own efforts. How have you been fighting the Spirit Demons?"
"You flatter me, Brother Mu. The Demon Army is indeed running rampant, and every force is led by a Spirit Demon. I could never accomplish this alone. We serve under Venerable Qian; only then can we withstand the Devil Race's Spirit Demons."
"Qian Yuhuang?"
"Qian Jingnian."
"Oh? Jingnian and I are old acquaintances. Could you lead me to see him?"
"Well..."
"Originally north