"Despicable! Shameless! Base!"
After hearing the Qing family ancestor's words, Hua Yao could no longer endure it. Pointing at his nose, she unleashed a torrent of curses.
"Qing Xuan, after doing something like this, can you still call yourself human? If you die, then you die—it is no great loss. But what did those cultivators who wholeheartedly believed in you and made offerings to you do wrong? Why should they die with you?"
Calm returned to Qing Xuan's face. "Mountain Elder Hua Yao, that is not quite right. I am the highest-cultivated person in the entire human race. Naturally, my life is far more precious than the lives of those ants.
"Actually, I did not wish to do this either. Was I not forced into it by Fellow Daoist Xu? After all, I owe so much karma. Even as a Mahayana Stage cultivator, repaying it later would be quite troublesome."
Hua Yao clenched her fists, her knuckles cracking loudly.
"You see our own kind as ants. Have you forgotten that you, too, once climbed up from among those 'ants'?"
"Precisely because, when I was weak, I too was regarded as an ant by so-called powerful beings, I swore that I would become stronger by any means necessary."
Remembering the unbearable past, pain and cold glints flashed through Qing Xuan's eyes. He looked at Xu Chunniang, his expression indifferent.
"Fellow Daoist Xu is a clever person. You should know what kind of tidal wave attacking me would cause. How to choose should not be difficult for you, should it?"
Xu Chunniang sighed. "For your own selfish desires, you intend to drag hundreds of millions of cultivators down with you. Why must it come to this?"
"I told you, Fellow Daoist Xu forced me into this. To protect myself, I had no