The Man in Black wearing the Bamboo Hat was Zhuo Rusui.
The Dao-Seekers who had left the illusion so far had all been killed by him.
Tong Yan suddenly asked, "Why are you doing this?"
"All that talk of a sovereign over the world, all those questions about who gets the bronze cauldron, endless warfare and living beings mired in misery-it's too bloody and too slow. So I came up with the simplest method."
Zhuo Rusui said, "As long as I kill all the other Dao-Seekers, I'll naturally be the final winner."
"Your idea makes a great deal of sense. Unfortunately, no one can do it, no matter how talented you are or how strong you are in combat."
Tong Yan pointed at the gloomy sky and said, "There's a lid on the sky here."
His words carried a hidden reference.
The highest cultivation realm in the illusion was Initial Infant, or the Wandering the Wilds Initial Realm. This was a fixed rule. With an upper limit in place, the differences in talent between Dao-Seekers would be largely leveled out. And even if Zhuo Rusui's talent was astounding, allowing him to reach the Wandering the Wilds Initial Realm faster than everyone else, he still could not fight an entire nation alone.
Zhuo Rusui said, "That's why I'm making the most of my time, trying to find all those idiots and kill them before they catch up to me."
Tong Yan said, "Finding Jing Jiu and me is easy, but finding the others is hard. For instance, I don't understand how you found Xiang Wanshu."
Zhuo Rusui said, "I found Que Niang in Yunzhou."
Hearing the words Yunzhou and Que Niang, Tong Yan sighed inwardly, having roughly worked out what had happened.
"She wasn't very lucky. She was reincarnated as the