I Have an All-Knowing Mirror

Chapter 48: Destiny

Actually, Kunlong died extremely unjustly.

The grand sorcerer's period of weakness...

Basically only successive generations of grand sorcerers knew about it, and outsiders had almost no possibility of learning it.

After all, only by becoming a grand sorcerer could one detect their own period of weakness.

And such a fatal flaw.

How could a grand sorcerer possibly reveal it to outsiders?

This created an information loop.

Even if someone knew that grand sorcerers had a period of weakness, it was basically useless.

The period of weakness only occurred once every ten years and lasted just half a day.

How could outsiders determine when this half day would occur? If they guessed wrong, they would completely offend a grand sorcerer to the death.Because of this, among all the grand sorcerers throughout the history of the Southern Ocean nations, none had ever been killed during their period of weakness.

As for Kunlong, spending his period of weakness in his stronghold was also the result of careful consideration.

The stronghold was the holy land of the Southern Ocean sorcerer lineage, containing methods left by successive generations of grand sorcerers, plus protection from numerous sorcerers.

It was originally the safest place.

As for going outside to find a remote location, or building an underground secret room to hide in to pass the half-day period of weakness...

Who could guarantee that no one would notice during that time? And grand sorcerers normally stayed in the holy land year-round - suddenly leaving might attract attention from interested parties...

Sneak away? How could he be sure he could definitely sneak away unnoticed?

Too many factors forced Kunlong to consider carefully, and staying in his stronghold to pass his period of weakness was Kunlong's final decision.

First, staying in the stronghold continuously avoided the attention that sudden departure might cause.

Second, Kunlong didn't place all his hopes on the stronghold either - before his period of weakness, he arranged a low-level identity for himself in the holy land in advance, allowing him to blend into the large sorcerer community.

There was also changing his appearance and isolating/altering his original aura.

This way, even if someone got lucky and happened to attack during his period of weakness, they still couldn't find him.

They couldn't possibly kill all the sorcerers in the sorcerer lineage's holy land, could they?

In fact, Kunlong had anticipated this worst-case scenario.

That the Southern Ocean nations' authorities would take advantage of his period of weakness to use thermal weapons for saturation bombing, leveling the entire temple holy land to the ground, wiping out thousands of sorcerers.

Facing this possibility, Kunlong also had a countermeasure - hiding in the temple's underground shelter.

The underground shelter beneath the temple holy land was built by successive generations of grand sorcerers, absolutely unknown to outsiders. Even if the holy land became ruins, it wouldn't affect the underground shelter, making it the sorcerer lineage's final sanctuary.

Originally, Kunlong was hiding in the underground shelter.

No matter what happened outside, even if his stronghold was wiped out and all his disciples killed, Kunlong was determined not to come out until his period of weakness passed.

However, when he learned that the person who came was Aromu, he immediately couldn't sit still.

Outsiders didn't know about the underground shelter's existence or how to enter it.

But Aromu knew!

Kunlong's current position was obtained by defeating Aromu.

Aromu was also the former holy land master.

If Aromu grew impatient waiting outside and entered the temple before his period of weakness ended, and then entered the underground shelter...

And discovered him hiding there?

Done!

Even if he didn't recognize Kunlong with his changed appearance and aura, discovering that the underground shelter only accessible to successive generations of grand sorcerers now contained a low-level sorcerer?

Wasn't this clearly telling Aromu that his identity was unusual?

Thus occurred the scene where Kunlong secretly left the underground shelter, intending to get far away from the temple holy land, only to be blocked by Aromu and casually killed.

Kunlong would never have imagined that from beginning to end, all his behaviors and actions were completely visible to Su Yuan, with no secrets whatsoever.

......

"Master, what should we do next?"

After killing Kunlong, Aromu didn't think much about it.

From this perspective, Kunlong had actually been quite successful.

At least Aromu never realized that the old sorcerer he killed was the real Kunlong.

"Enter the temple holy land and take control of the sorcerer lineage."

Su Yuan spoke.

Hearing this, Aromu was immediately stunned.

Then he cautiously said, "Master, Kunlong hasn't appeared yet. Isn't it a bit early to take control of the sorcerer lineage now?"

"Kunlong is already dead." Su Yuan said.

"Dead... who's dead?" Aromu was somewhat confused.

With a grand sorcerer's hearing, he clearly heard every word Su Yuan said.

But when these words were combined, they felt unfamiliar to Aromu.

Kunlong is dead?

When did he die?

Did the subordinates Master sent out kill him?

But fights between grand sorcerer-level experts definitely wouldn't be silent - he should have been able to detect some related commotion.

"The person you just killed was Kunlong." Su Yuan said in a calm tone.

Since he had Aromu kill Kunlong, he definitely had absolute certainty.

From the moment Su Yuan found Aromu more than half a day ago until this very moment, everything had proceeded according to Su Yuan's plan.

The core of the plan lay in Kunlong's period of weakness.

Actually, no matter where Kunlong chose to spend his period of weakness - in the holy land stronghold or some other hidden corner of the world - he would eventually be found by Aromu following Su Yuan's orders.

It could be said that Kunlong's fate and outcome were already predetermined.

"He was Kunlong?" Aromu sharply looked at the old sorcerer's corpse.

In that lightning-fast moment, various thoughts flashed through Aromu's mind. Under the premise that Su Yuan wouldn't lie to him, he quickly grasped the key point.

"Period of weakness, today was Kunlong's period of weakness?"

Aromu immediately stepped forward, carefully examining the old sorcerer's face, then gently brushed his right hand over it, immediately revealing slightly sinister features.

"It's Kunlong..."

Aromu looked at his great enemy's corpse before him, his thoughts filled with indescribable complexity.

Satisfaction, vindication, joy, confusion, shock, fear...

His great enemy dead, his great vengeance achieved, finally reclaiming everything that belonged to him, and so on.

However, Kunlong's manner of death genuinely made Aromu's heart grow cold - dying during his own period of weakness?

"How did Master know about Kunlong's period of weakness..."

Aromu found it hard to understand. He originally thought he would have to go through a bitter, bloody battle, but instead Kunlong died without any resistance in his hands...

No.

To be accurate.

He died in Master's hands.

In Kunlong's weakened state, any ordinary sorcerer could easily kill him.

He was merely a blade in Master's hand, and one that could be easily replaced at that.

Aromu trembled inwardly - the more he pondered Kunlong's death, the more terrified he became, and the more awe and fear he felt toward Su Yuan.

"Proceed according to what I said."

Su Yuan spoke again.

All of Aromu's various reactions and thoughts after killing Kunlong were also within Su Yuan's expectations.

By displaying such methods, this grand sorcerer would serve Su Yuan with even greater dedication in the future.