Heavenwater Daoist's tightly shut eyes twitched.
Gan Tian had clearly struck a nerve.
"You think we're just a pawn some domain is using to weaken the Divine Luo Domain before the Domain War?"
There was something hard to place in Gan Tian's voice.
"You think everything we're doing is futile? That once the Domain War ends and the Divine Luo Domain can turn its attention to us, we'll be crushed to dust?"
Heavenwater Daoist still did not open his eyes, but his breathing had quickened.
That was exactly what he thought.
It was why he had chosen not to surrender.
If he surrendered and earned the name of traitor, then the moment Gan Tian's backer fell, he would meet a fate ten thousand times worse than death now.
"Fellow Daoist Heavenwater, your view is too narrow."
Gan Tian shook his head. His expression seemed part pity, part mockery.
He walked up to Heavenwater Daoist, bent down, and spoke quietly enough that only the two of them could hear.
"You think all we've conquered is your little Heavenwater Realm?"
"Let me tell you something."
"The Flowing Light Domain has changed completely."
"The Ten Great Dao Realms now answer to a single master."
"Do you think an ordinary domain could compare to someone who made every Hunyuan Infinite Peak cultivator in the Ten Great Dao Realms submit willingly?"
"Do you think we would fear the Divine Luo Domain?"
Gan Tian's words struck Heavenwater Daoist's mind like thunderclaps, one after another.
Heavenwater Daoist stared at Gan Tian as if he could see straight through his soul.
"Impossible... That's absolutely impossible!"
His voice was hoarse, cracking under the force of his emotions.
"The Ten Great Dao Realms have the Divine Luo Domain behind them. How could they all betray it at once?!"
"Gan Tian,