Weakness Is the Original Sin

The Ancestral God and the Saint Venerable each frowned, both feeling that he was being somewhat overconfident.

Xu Ying's gaze grew somewhat somber. Deep in his heart, a voice silently said, Meng Shanming, have you still not realized it? The tide of the chives has already turned. Now, everything from head to toe belongs to me. What will you use to stop my harvest?

But he did not say this aloud in front of the Ancestral God and the Saint Venerable.

Before celebrating victory, one must first consider defeat.

Before the first battle in the Abyss, Xu Ying had already pierced through his two Taiyi Cave Abysses, leaving two cracks behind. His purpose was that even if the Immortal Emperor succeeded in harvesting him and obtained his Cave Abyss, those two cracks would leave flaws in his Dao arts and divine abilities when he cultivated!

Others might still need to search for the flaws in the Taiyi Cave Abyss, but to Xu Ying, they were clear and glaring.

He could even deduce where the flaws in the Immortal Emperor's techniques lay!

This was the most conspicuous trap he had left for the Immortal Emperor!

At a deeper level, Xu Ying had an intimate understanding of every one of his realms. When the Immortal Emperor harvested his cultivation realms, impersonated the Ancestral Master of the New Dao, and cultivated using his realms, he was helping Xu Ying temper and strengthen those realms.

The more deeply the Immortal Emperor exploited those realms and relied on his Dao landscapes, the easier it would be for Xu Ying to harvest him!

"The Meng Shanming of the past was unfathomable to me, but the Meng Shanming of today is riddled with flaws." Xu Ying silently said in his heart.

And all those flaws had been