Chapter 1458: The Curtains Fall (1/2)
The battle on the borders of Bluesky Nation was destined to go down as a pivotal event in human history
When Emperor Pillzenith had formed his northern coalition, almost every cultivator in the human domain was pessimistic about Veluriyam’s prospects The faction seehbors in the north
However, both process and conclusion were nothing short of astonishi+ng
Pillzenith had been crippled like a dead dog, then eaten to the bone by countless Goldbiter Rats Though his veins and meridians had been destroyed, his life essence hadn’t dissipated Therefore, he was superb nutrition for the rats
The rapid skeletonization of the once-proud great emperor inspired shocked awe in his former followers Pillzenith’s fall was like adereat e lord This was a real, ap!
Pillzenith had conspired ti Chen This tiboth the e stroke
Thisrealization that Veluriyam had never feared Pillfire even fro Chen had never even seen Pillfire as a long-term rival of any kind In his eyes, Pillzenith was littleclown!
Pillfire City’sChen didn’t call for his Goldbiter Rats to retreat yet They swar Chen didn’t believe for one second that ethics had to do with their defection They had only caved due to their collective fear of death
“The eight first rank sects of the Upper Eight Regions are supposed to be its pillars Look at what you’ve done instead! Day in and day out, all you e is trickery and deceit of each other You do the co!
“I’o today with your lives, but it’s not because of your innocence Spend so about what you should do in the future” Pausing, Jiang Chen tossed a frigid gaze towards the Eternal Celestial Capital Its holy e man’s eyes “Luo Jue, I can absolve the other sects of their responsibility as they were strong-armed into it by Pillfire The Eternal Celestial Capital however, cannot be forgiven!”
The sect had o
“Young lord Jiang Chen!” Luo Jue spat resentfully, “are you turning on ?”
“There’s no need to defend yourself,” Jiang Chen s your excuses Whether you resist or not, your fate won’t change”
Panic flashed across the sect head’s face “Jiang Chen,” he called out, “if you’re willing to forgive these other Pillfire loyalists, why can’t you show some mercy to us as well? Yes, ere responsible for Myriad Doo Still, hasn’t survival of the fittest been the unspoken law of the human domain since time immemorial? What difference is there between us and the Ninesuns Sky Sect? Why do you solely target us, young lord Jiang Chen?”
He hadn’t given up on weaseling his way out of his fate
“Survival of the fittest?” Jiang Chen burst into laughter “Is that how you understand it? Very well then, since I am now more fit to survive than you, that ht?”
He was using Luo Jue’s own arguainst him Because of this, the lord of the Eternal Celestial Capital had no response Yes, why couldn’t survival of the fittest apply here, too?
The sect head wanted to sayhiaway all of his enemies Both the Eternal Celestial Capital and its holy ereat deal when co that the latter had been do, which made the former’s case all the more hopeless
The holy emperor wanted to er before the eight golem brothers subjected him to the same fate as Eions were henceforth completely altered The Eternal Celestial Capital was struck froht first rank sects