Lin Mu's gaze sharpened. "Why?"
Taegong shook his head. "I don't know the full reason! They said the Wild Peak needed to be weakened and distracted."
"Who gave you that order?"
"The instructions came through my contacts in the Pavilion."
Zhenyu's eyes narrowed. "Continue."
Taegong explained that he had spent years considering how to create a sufficiently serious incident.
The Wild Peak's cultivators were notoriously difficult to manipulate through ordinary means, and their internal loyalty made it challenging to provoke disputes among them. Eventually, he decided to exploit the restricted storage areas within the Wild Peak's vault.
"I began modifying the arrays," he admitted. "Slowly, over many years."
He explained that the alterations had been deliberately subtle, designed to avoid attracting the attention of other formation masters. The goal was to create a weakness that would allow an unsuspecting disciple to enter a forbidden storage area.
