Vol 22 Chapter 17 (2/2)
“I still cannot accept” Old Man Yuan shook his head
“Hmph”
Subhuti let out a cold laugh “We’ve been fighting against the Sea now You should be able to tell that our differences are completely irreconcilable At a time like this…you continue to waver! You said all those po to see all your old friends die, one by one’…but your actions now are causing even more of our old friends to die! Your words are complete bullshi+t!”
“Yes” Old Man Yuan nodded, a distant look in his eyes “I ad face All of those things I said were lies”
Subhuti just looked at him
He felt pain in his heart
They had all enorant, wide-eyed newborns They had all supported each other, discussed the Dao together, advanced together on the path of cultivation They were so close to each other that they were like actual brothers So in the chaotic wars of the Primordial Era, while others had died in the war that had ended that era Daoist Threelives, for example, had already perished
Not many were still alive…but this old friend of his, ‘Old Man Yuan’, had actually refused to stand alongside them at such a critical hour
“You finally admit to it,” Subhuti said icily
“Yes” Old Man Yuan shook his head “Ever since the Primordial Era, we have suffered incursions froained so the infinite primordial chaos I ca le chaosworld The primordial chaos is a far vaster universe When I learned this, I became filled with the desire to travel far away, to see s”
“We ‘True Gods’ ere born fro ion How can we be considered ‘ained at birth” Old Man Yuan shook his head “In the endless primordial chaos, the true ‘major powers’ are the World Gods and Chaos I out our entire world”
“Nu the truth long ago The Three Realms was too small a place to contain her, and so she left to enter the vaster world outside of it”
“I want to journey through that vast world as well” Old Man Yuan’s eyes were filled with desire “But I’h yet Those alien Outsiders, the Lord of All Things…I learned that even so ure in the primordial chaos There are many who are far more powerful than hiure”
“I have to become more powerful”
“A war for the Three Realle between the Nuwa Alliance and the Seas Your visions are far too narrow…your gazes are focused on the Three Realaze is focused on the endless primordial chaos” Old Man Yuan shook his head “I’ve never even considered risking my life in some squabble here in the Three Realms”
“I want to leave this place I want to become even more powerful”
“Because I was born into the Three Realood techniques I had no opportunities Once I leave, I ht be able to becoerly “That’s what I truly want That’s what I truly desire!”
Subhuti continued to stare at him coldly “Selfish!+ True, compared to the vast primordial chaos, the Three Real more than local bumpkins…but this is our home! The Three Realms is our home All of us were born here, and ere all like brothers They are now into stand by and watch? For the sake of becooing to watch as your old friends go off to fight? Go off to die?”
“I never thought that my old friend Yuan would end up like this” Subhuti shook his head
“Ahahaha…” Old Man Yuan actually began to laugh, laugh so hard that his beard shook He then looked towards Subhuti with a dagger-sharp gaze “Yes, I ain with If I’ to walk this path, of course I need to treasure my own life Of course I have to seize every opportunity I can find to becoside the rest of you and risk everything?”
“You don’t possess any transcendental qualities Neither we nor the Seah Subhuti felt sorrow in his heart, he still tried to dissuade Old Man Yuan
“I’ll do everything I can to get as much as I can from the Seamless Gate,” Old Man Yuan said calins, I’ll leave the Three Realms and enter the endless priether we shall adventure through it As for what happens to you and the Seaet involved”
“Leave?” Subhuti was surprised
“Right” Old Man Yuan laughed coldly “What, did you actually think that I would really fight on behalf of the Seamless Gate? No; neither your side nor the Sea my life for”
“Good Very good indeed” Subhuti laughed hard, as though he had heard an incredibly funny joke “During my [Dreae…but now, I see that the hearts of FiendGods can change as well You’ve changed You’ve changed far, far too side me from within the primordial chaos”
“Back then, I was just a newborn I was born withat all Back then, ere too simple and naïve” Old Man Yuan shook his head “As far as I’m concerned, my brothers and friends are of secondary importance My path of cultivation is of paramount importance”
Subhuti gave Old Man Yuan a long, deep look, then disappeared into thin air
As for Old Man Yuan, he just continued to sit there quietly He lifted up one of the wine cups and took a small sip from it “Once I beco more than a memory”