It was hard to say how much Wang Meng had to do with Tu Mu's departure, but it was clear that Tu Mu seemed unwilling to provoke him. He even seemed willing to proactively establish some sort of connection.
'When Mo Chen reached this conclusion, he was truly shocked. All this time, he had simply wanted to help Wang Meng, treating him like a nephew. A certain quality about Wang Meng had triggered his human emotions. Mo Chen thought it might be a sentimentality one feels before death, and everything he was doing now felt like fulfilling a last wish.'
'But Tu Mu had snapped him out of it. Could it be possible... was instinct driving him to do this? Was it because of the law that Wang Meng represented?'
After Tu Mu left and the Golden Dragon King vanished back into the Dragon Cave, the cultivators who had just fled to a safe distance all crept back out. They stared, dumbfounded, at the bodies littering the ground.
