Miaojian shook his head. "Xu Ying, you're wrong. The reason I didn't keep Gong Daohuan back then wasn't that I was unwilling, but that I couldn't. I hadn't become a Dao Master at the time. He withstood three moves from me through sheer ability."
He held out his right hand. Its thumb was missing.
"In that battle, Gong Daohuan severed my thumb. Although I severely wounded him, I regarded it as the greatest humiliation of my life. I learned my lesson through bitter pain, and finally cultivated to the end of the Great Dao, becoming the master of the Suspended Extremity Dao Hall."
Miaojian said, "The reason I never restored my finger wasn't because I couldn't, but because I wanted to use it to admonish myself: I must never again show a woman's mercy."
Xu Ying had originally planned to persuade him through humanity to abandon the Dao Alliance's ideals and stop attacking him. Hearing this, his expression darkened.
"Besides, Gong Daohuan's so-called prolonging of the Heavenly Realm's life was merely a futile struggle."
Miaojian's expression was indifferent as he shook his head. "By prolonging the Heavenly Realm's life, did Gong Daohuan really allow it to escape tribulations forever? Sooner or later, the Heavenly Realm will face a second Nirvana Tribulation. At that time, will there be a second Gong Daohuan? Not necessarily. The Heavenly Realm is even worse off than the Primordial Universe. The Primordial Universe transfers its tribulation fortune through the Primordial Immortal Emperor, while the Heavenly Realm transfers it through the destruction of the Other Shore. The Primordial Universe could not escape nirvana, so how could the Heavenly Realm? As for the humanity you speak of..."
His expression turned stern. "This Dao is nothing but humanity's delusion. It is like the so-called Postnatal Great Dao. Martial Dao,