Chu Qing's answer left Old Woman Wu Jue's mind in turmoil.
She asked herself:
If destroying a city meant she could survive, she could grit her teeth and destroy a city.
But if she had to destroy an empire to survive, she did not dare.
She had grown timid!
She did not even dare to think about it.
"Chu Qing... he came from the countryside. Shouldn't he have a kind heart?"
"Shouldn't he be a good person?"
"Why was he so savage?"
"He had been drenched by rain himself. He knew how miserable it was when life and death were beyond one's control!"
"How could he not have even the slightest bit of sympathy?"
Old Woman Wu Jue had been thoroughly frightened by Chu Qing.
Chu Qing did not care about Old Woman Wu Jue's thoughts.
Right now, he only wanted to raise his cultivation.
The higher his cultivation, the greater his chances of surviving.
"The Millennial Tribulation cannot threaten me!"
"The anomalous humans will submit to me!"
"And I—I will be the overlord of this world!"
He wanted to be an overlord.
An unrestrained, free and easy overlord.
He did not want to be threatened.
Still less did he want his life and death to be beyond his control.
He swallowed secret medicine!
Spirit and Energy were born.
The vast amount of Spirit and Energy paid the price of the ritual.
By his estimate, it would take at most one month for him to pay every last cost.
By then:
The immense Spirit and Energy would nourish the Shackle Realm.
At the same time:
The Martial Academy should also have prepared the materials he needed for the first realm of the Third Limit.
"As long as the Martial Academy takes me seriously, I will surely give it the best