"S-so what!"
After hearing that using manifestation power at this intensity twice more would kill him, Heavenly Decline still looked disdainful.
"A mere backlash! I will defy the rules and withstand it!"
Heavenly Decline's mysterious confidence flared up again. He even claimed he could change this price through his own consciousness.
His words actually amused A Gu Zuo. "This is a first-order law of the universe! Your will cannot change it!"
"It seems you don't understand what manifestation power is. Your understanding of it is still stuck at the philosophical level."
"Listen. In this universe, every influence, however strange it may be, ultimately manifests as a physical phenomenon!"
"Whether it's the soul's divine sense power or the manifestation power of free will, it is something real. It merely gives a lower-dimensional creature like you the illusion that mind rules over matter."
"You won't die just because you don't want to? What a joke!"
Heavenly Decline declared proudly, "Whether I live or die is not something I need to consider!"
"Listen, A Gu Zuo. Pursuing the ultimate truth is my sole obsession. Charging toward it with everything I have is what I must do."
"No matter what, we will defeat you. No matter what!"
"Even if I die on the road forward, that will be the moment in my life when I am closest to my ideal."
That was a meaningless statement. So long as he advanced unwaveringly, he would inevitably die at the point when he was closest, because he would have no life left with which to surpass himself.
Nor would there be any suffering. Once dead, he would have no chance to regret it! So rather than linger in retreat and misgivings, enduring misery or even death, he would much rather end his life at the moment his