Shaking his head, he said, "I don't know whose idea it was. Maybe, at the time, it looked like a good idea to refuse to surrender. Anyway, our domain went to war with that external force. We lost terribly, and everyone died."
"When I asked him how he had survived that massacre, he said, "Oh. I didn't survive anything. I was one of the people who did the killing. It was easy, and there was no danger to myself."
Both Loki and Golden Sun were surprised to hear this. But the other Dao Lords didn't seem surprised by the news.
Their reaction seemed to amuse Tepid Scholar because he chuckled as he said, "I was as surprised as you were. No, I was shocked even. I stepped away from him in fear that he would kill me just as the ancient cultivators were slain. But he didn't kill him."
