Chapter 1972: From The Past (1/2)
“Buzz.” With the help of the sacred light from the Void Imperfection Physique, Saint’s holy light became increasingly stronger, no longer flickering, due to the addition of “firewood”. If this kept on going, the holy light from Saint would be able to reach Samsara’s origin.
“The dao is endless.” Samsara stared at Li Qiye and said: “Fellow Daoist, we aren’t enemies. Let me give you a piece of advice. The three of us have a perilous path ahead. If you wish to break the shackles of the world, you should look forward instead of seeing things in black and white. This is the same for me and old friend. Unfortunately, he cared too much about other beings. Otherwise, the two of us could have worked together and possibly start an unprecedented situation and prolong our epoch.” Samsara said.
His tone wasn’t rushed at all despite his current disadvantage in the battle.
“We had different aspirations and paths. The prosperity of all being is not something to be traded. I will never cease before ending the darkness.” Saint coldly added.
“Old friend, I have always admired your magnanimity.” Samsara chuckled: “I’m no match for you when it comes to saving others. The truth is that outside of wanting to break out of the shackles with my harvests, it is for me to survive. I won’t deny that I’m afraid of dying before success. There’s no shame in that. But old friend, have you ever thought about it? If the two of us had worked together; light and darkness; we could have swept through everything until the final battle. Perhaps we could have broken through the shackles and prolong our epoch. Now, it doesn’t even exist. Light, darkness? All a waste of time.” Samsara calmly said.
“If cycles of darkness and b.l.o.o.d.y harvests are necessary, I very much prefer for our epoch to end.” Saint was unyielding in his response: “You didn’t have the courage and determination to fight to the end and rather live a borrowed life through the harvests. Even if you were to win, so what? You would have still lacked the mind to change yourself and our epoch. Your dao heart had fallen, and will forever be so!”
“I guess there’s nothing else I can say and can only fight to the death.” Samsara was not afraid. He turned towards Li Qiye and said: “You and my old friend have the same beliefs, I can understand that. An era resplendent with the light, it is indeed worth longing for. But have you thought about how you can defeat the high heaven by yourself? Can you make it in the final battle and win? If not, why not change your perspective? I’m not trying to divide you two. It’s just that at our level, I also hope that you could make it to the final battle.”
Samsara was straightforward and sincere, causing many emperors to stare at Li Qiye in antic.i.p.ation. Working together with a dark overlord? It could indeed open a new door.
“You are mistaken.” Li Qiye smiled: “Light and darkness aside, if I want to partic.i.p.ate in the final battle, it shows that I am confident in beating the old heaven, it’s that simple. My helping Saint today has nothing to do with light and dark. It is only to set an example for everyone to know that this is my era. Dark overlords and supreme progenitors? They better be smart as long as I am still alive and stop scheming in the darkness. Otherwise, kill without mercy!”
This leisure comment was a declaration of war towards those not on his side. The spectating emperors shuddered. The guy clearly wanted to go all out in this generation without showing any mercy.
“Back to the nature of our battle.” Li Qiye chuckled: “I agree with Saint’s perspective. So what if you are invincible if your dao heart has already fallen? Even if you were to win, it wouldn’t be a good thing for this world. Thus, our path is different, no need to plan together. There will only be one result today, your death!”
One would be hard pressed to find someone else in this world who would dare to announce the death of a supreme overlord like Samsara.
“Fellow Daoist, since you are so confident, it would be rude of me if I don’t go all out. We’ll see who will fall today.” Samsara smiled in response.
“Boom!” Endless darkness oozed from the altar deep in the wildland. A figure came out from the darkness, one step of his was enough to make the myriad ages tremble.
“There’s no going back to the past, but it can be stored.” This person spoke with grace.
“Samsara!” Many emperors palpitated.
This was another Samsara, exactly identical to the one before. It wasn’t an illusion either.