Of course, Bai Sui also considered another possibility: Wu Xue’e was coerced. After being forcibly violated by Cao Dagen using martial force, she feared her husband would find out about her being defiled by another man, or perhaps she was under some kind of threat from Cao Dagen, leaving her no choice but to submit to his lewd authority.

Ultimately, she was just an ordinary person. If she lost her husband’s protection, it would be extremely difficult for her to survive alone in the cultivation world.

Because she had too many worries, she was all the more easily manipulated.

Could Cao Dagen have used this as leverage to coerce Wu Xue’e into continuing their illicit relationship in the days that followed?

Bai Sui wasn’t sure, but she knew that when contemplating a matter, one mustn’t fall into a mental rut. One must never be bull-headed or stubbornly single-minded, allowing only one hypothetical conclusion, but should analyze from as many angles as possible.

Regarding the matter of the affair itself, Wu Xue’e was clearly the party at fault. But one couldn’t conclude that her actions were voluntary just because she bore a stain.

The world is composed of both black and white; day and night cycle endlessly, their boundary very distinct, yet in the Taiji diagram, white contains black and black contains white.

This shows that depending on the angle one views a problem, things are not necessarily fixed.

People yearn for the light and exhaust every method to try to eliminate darkness, yet inadvertently, darkness always surges back.

And when the darkness becomes strong enough, or when those resisting it have the possibility of giving up, then the choices left to the weak are few. Perhaps they can only be swept along, falling into the darkness.

Much evil, in fact, is born of necessity. The theory that victims are guilty is utterly absurd.

At the very least, without being able to see the full picture, Bai Sui preferred to kindly believe that Wu Xue’e perhaps had some hidden hardship.

But then again, what if the real situation wasn’t like that? Then Wu Xue’e wouldn’t be a victim, but a thoroughly adulterous woman who leaped over the wall! The honest man Cultivator Cui would be the greatest victim!

Regardless of the situation, only one thing remained constant: that scumbag Cao Dagen’s death, however one looked at it, was deserved, leaving people feeling immensely gratified.

“What happened afterward?” Bai Sui asked curiously, pressing Uncle Tian to recount the later events.

“There’s no wall in this world that doesn’t let the wind through. Cultivator Cui wasn’t a man without schemes. He quickly discovered clues through various signs and some idle gossip. But he probably knew that without thorough preparation, he couldn’t pose a substantial threat to Cao Dagen with one fatal blow. So he held back without revealing anything, secretly accumulated strength, and bought items like the Heavenly Thunder Talisman from the market, waiting for the right moment.”

“Was that this morning?” Bai Sui asked in sudden understanding.

“The incident did occur, but it could also just be a coincidence.”

Facing Bai Sui’s puzzled expression, Uncle Tian lowered his voice and said, “Cultivator Cui isn’t stupid. If he truly wanted to put Cao Dagen to death, he could have completely found an excuse to arrange a meeting with Cao Dagen at a place with preset traps and quietly eliminated him. Doing it in the village would only cause unnecessary complications—seen from any angle, it was the worst possible strategy.”

Upon hearing this, Bai Sui also felt it made sense.

The market had no shortage of “Array Disk” items. Although the price was steep, the effect was also very pronounced. Once an “Array Disk” was deployed, it formed a small-scale array; dealing with a cultivator at the second layer of Qi Refining would be all too easy!

“If it wasn’t premeditated, then Cultivator Cui’s behavior can only be explained as a crime of passion. Could it be that he caught them in the act?”

“A… crime of passion?”

Uncle Tian paused, then suddenly understood. Not bad, this girl Bai Sui, young as she was, had a rather fitting vocabulary.

So he revealed everything he knew about what happened: “Actually, it was quite a coincidence. Yesterday, Cultivator Cui had a mission to carry out, so he left the village early in the morning. Meanwhile, Cao Dagen and Wu Xue’e, in the heat of their illicit passion, could hardly let such an opportunity pass. In broad daylight, with everyone’s eyes on them, they still didn’t dare be too blatant, but once night fell, they had far fewer scruples.

Thus, that very night, Cao Dagen climbed the wall again and came to Cultivator Cui’s house, tangling together with Wu Xue’e. Unexpectedly, just as their night-long carnal pleasure was ending, Cultivator Cui suddenly returned home because his mission had finished. When he burst through the door, Cao Dagen and Wu Xue’e had just finished their excitement and were utterly exhausted. And when Cultivator Cui saw his wife indeed rolling together with Cao Dagen, in his extreme fury, he directly used the Heavenly Thunder Talisman.”

Bai Sui more or less understood what happened next.

However, she couldn’t help but admire Cao Dagen; to be able to engage in carnal pleasure all night long, he really did have some skills—no wonder Wu Xue’e couldn’t restrain herself.

She just had one question: weren’t the details Uncle Tian described a bit too detailed?

It was as if he had personally been at the scene.

Noticing her strange look, Uncle Tian coughed lightly and explained, “Actually, at first, no one knew the inside story. Even the fact that Cultivator Cui’s wife Wu Xue’e had hooked up with Cao Dagen was far beyond everyone’s imagination. The reason everyone found out later was because the commotion Cultivator Cui caused was too great, almost shocking the entire village. It just so happened that many of the neighbors were cultivators, so several of them rushed to the scene and witnessed Cultivator Cui’s violent act firsthand.”

Cultivator Cui probably hadn’t expected the power of the Heavenly Thunder Talisman to be so great, and Cao Dagen was truly thick-skinned and tough-fleshed. The aftershock of the Heavenly Thunder Talisman knocked Wu Xue’e unconscious but failed to blast Cao Dagen dead immediately.

When he regained his senses, he fought desperately to entangle Cultivator Cui, stalling until the nearby cultivators arrived.

Seeing other cultivators arrive, Cultivator Cui knew that the matter of his wife’s affair had already been exposed, bringing him utter disgrace. Adding to that, Cao Dagen’s actions had trampled his dignity underfoot. So, seeing red, in full view of everyone, he brutally killed Cao Dagen.

In the cultivation world, swift vengeance is emphasized. Afterward, Cultivator Cui fled, but to prove the legitimacy of his killing, he left behind a Recording Stone, which contained footage of Cao Dagen and Wu Xue’e’s illicit affair.

It turned out that although Cultivator Cui suspected his wife was having an affair with Cao Dagen, he lacked solid evidence. So before leaving home, he had hidden a Recording Stone on the beam of the bedroom. And Cao Dagen, being so impatient, stripped off his clothes and engaged in primal drama with Wu Xue’e the moment he arrived, failing to notice the Recording Stone’s existence.

Thus, everything that should and shouldn’t have been recorded was recorded.