Chapter 398: Watch Your Step

If it were just one or two families trying to topple the Golden Summit, it would still be possible to condemn those with wolfish ambitions.

But if betrayal extended to the extent that everyone joined in the attack, it would be hard to say that Emei was without fault.

Perhaps Cang Song and the others really did their best, but even with immense power, it was inevitable that they would neglect some aspects.

Yet the three elders and four ancestors truly wasted too much time trying to block an irreversible trend, devoted too much attention to monitoring the elusive third ancestor, and spent too much energy planning for the bleak prospect of ascension.

They aimed too high, planned too far, and all too easily missed what was right in front of them, stepping straight into a pitfall.

After all, the most difficult to predict, the most unpredictable, is always the human heart.