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In truth, Lady Three felt a twinge of jealousy in her heart.
Zhao Changhe’s attitude was clear. While he was undoubtedly excited about forging the Night Emperor’s sword, it was nothing more than a martial artist’s pure enthusiasm for crafting a divine weapon. He had no desire to inherit the Night Emperor’s destiny, nor did he care for winning the Four Idols Cult’s devotion. In fact, he seemed wary and reluctant about it.
Given Lady Three’s current understanding of cultivation, she could comprehend his hesitation. To take on the legacy of the Night Emperor meant carrying a karmic burden that would need to be repaid in the future. This was an incredibly dangerous and burdensome risk.
The rational choice, if one wished to avoid such burdens, would be to simply forge a sword for personal use—an object, nothing more. The karmic weight of that would be far lighter.
Yet, he still chose to pursue this path. He was willing to make things more difficult for himself, to find a convoluted way to mitigate the risk, and he was doing this for Vermillion Bird.
His choices boiled down to two: either he joined the Four Idols Cult and embraced their doctrine, or he became so integral to the Cult’s interests that potential conflicts were eliminated. The former was impossible for...
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