After they had all thought it through, they bowed to Chen Cheng in unison. Chen Cheng, meanwhile, sighed and said:
"His Majesty the Third was still wrong back then. People like you never should have entered this arena of power and reputation. Your best destination is to return to the mountains, be your Demigods, and pursue your own Great Dao."
As they rose to leave, they suddenly remembered that one person seemed to be missing from among them.
At this moment, however, Clark was being suppressed so thoroughly by the Armored Turtle King that he could not move. His special Chaos Dao Laws allowed him to glimpse everything happening outside.
At first, when he saw Chen Cheng mercilessly slaughtering those Legendary figures with whom he usually discussed the Dao, he was undoubtedly furious.
After all, people like him believed that the heavens and earth they saw were different from what mortals saw. The pride in their hearts was carved into their bones.
This gave them a heroic spirit of "who in the world but I?" Thus, when he heard that Chen Cheng was heading south to find the key, he had descended from the mountain without a second word.
In his eyes, those Legendary figures Chen Cheng had slaughtered were the same as himself. During their usual conversations, they would point out the course of the realm and write with impassioned words, which gave him an illusion.
It was not until Simon's cultivation method was exposed—a Spirit-Concentration Method that required vast numbers of ordinary people as sacrificial offerings—that the first layer of filter over his heart shattered.
Then came the self-destruction, the hole in the heavens and earth, and afterward, the Emperor whom he had viewed as cruel, as someone who violated the ancestral teachings and would stop at nothing