"I knew it... You had already reached the Earth Immortal stage back then, yet even now, you still had no intention of opening the Phoenix-Attracting Coffin. I knew it..." Xijun murmured, her disappointment plain on her face.
"Xijun! Brother isn't joking. Grandma has her own plans. How could we ruin the entire plan just because we wanted to do things our own way? Our abilities are indeed sufficient now, but we still have to proceed step by step. Resorting to violence would only make things worse!" I knew she certainly wouldn't believe me, but the truth was exactly that. Grandma's plans were still only a rough outline. Otherwise, I wouldn't have come here to confirm them.
"Heh, stop lying to me. You never intended to open the Phoenix-Attracting Coffin, much less avenge me. That has nothing to do with you anymore. Perhaps I shouldn't have followed you from the beginning. It only added to your troubles." Xijun shook her head and sighed. "You said that once you became an immortal, you would slaughter the entire Immortal Sect. Yet you haven't exterminated the Immortal Sect at all. The oath you made was merely a moment of wishful thinking. Your indecision has only killed more innocents. You never considered that undying Earth Immortals would bring disaster to the mortal world, did you? Xiao Wu was still only a child... Yet they took her to refine pills. What wouldn't they do? What would they dare not do? The immortals under heaven are no better than beasts."
"You..." What a line—"The immortals under heaven are no better than beasts." My expression changed. Her heart had already fallen into such darkness, but no matter how far one followed a dead end, one would eventually hit a wall.
"Can't you say anything? Aren't you eloquent? But