Zhao Min had not known that this crisis had nearly exposed both her and Li Yan.
Though her plan with Li Yan had been thorough, the gap in cultivation and strength between them and Dongli Qing had been far too great. Some matters could only be planned, never controlled.
Even knowing that his opponent had been poisoned, Li Yan had not dared approach him at all. In the end, he had chosen to flee early.
That gave Dongli Qing, in his final moment of clarity before death, the chance to leave behind those words. And that tiny scrap of information had nearly dragged Zhao Min straight into the whirlpool.
Thus, although Li Yan was meticulous, before absolute power, he simply could not calculate every possibility without missing a single detail.
All that could be said was that fate had favored the two of them.
Otherwise, once Zhao Min was exposed, after the death of a Nascent Soul cultivator, even with her current status, the Supreme Elder might still have used a secret art to search her memories.
They would not have forcefully performed a Soul Search, of course. They would have used a more sophisticated and gentler method to seek clues, one that would not harm even a wisp of Zhao Min's soul.
Then everything she and Li Yan had discussed would surely have been exposed. She might not necessarily have died, but severe punishment would have been inevitable.
Li Yan would have had nowhere left to stand on this continent. Could he possibly have fled to the territory of the Black Devil Race?
Of course, if Dongli Qing had not met with misfortune while tracking Li Yan this time, he would not have broadcast the matter far and wide. He would only have intensified his secret investigation himself.
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