Zhao Layue's question did not interrupt Jing Jiu's thoughts. Instead, it made him think more seriously.
What he had told Liu S sui was the truth, and it came from his heart.
To this world, Ascension was the greatest evil, yet it was his greatest and only pursuit.
Thus, good and evil were like passing clouds to him.
Only because his cultivation required freedom from disturbance, because he needed quiet, and of course because of certain emotional ties, did he take a stance.
He understood Fang Jingtian's emotional need to avenge his master, just as he understood Lei Poyun's bitter pursuit of a breakthrough.
His Senior Brother could stir up towering waves across the world with a single sentence, likewise because he understood what everyone needed and pursued.
The sole exception was Jing Jiu himself. His Senior Brother had never known what he liked or wanted, only that he wanted to ascend, yet he could not give him that.
Just as he knew what Zhao Layue wanted now, yet could not give it to her.
Zhao Layue said, "Fang Jingtian once asked Heaven Near Person to kill you. He clearly has ties to the Western Sea Sword Sect and the Never-Old Forest. Why haven't the Sect Master and the Sword Law dealt with him?"
Jing Jiu said, "I told you, they are fellow disciples, and there is no evidence."
Zhao Layue said, "Don't you find Shangde Peak very suspicious?"
All of the Green Mountain Nine Peaks knew that Yuan Qijing disliked True Person Jingyang. Moreover, there had always been something not quite right about how Shangde Peak had handled the recent incidents.
Jing Jiu knew Yuan Qijing disliked him, but he truly had no suspicions. He explained to her, "He was the one who killed Lei Poyun."
Zhao Layue said,