Xu Ying's spirits soared, and he said with a laugh, "I've stayed in the Jing Realm all these years and delayed leaving precisely because I was waiting for you to say those words—'I want to rebel.' But there's one thing I don't understand. Sect Master He, why didn't you rebel before, yet suddenly think of rebelling now?"
Sect Master He Ying said, "I didn't rebel before because there was still a way to live. I thought I was below the best but above the worst. I'm rebelling now because I discovered that I'm the worst, and never part of the middle layer. In the eyes of the upper echelons of the Other Shore, even the universe of our Jing Realm is nothing more than ants they can casually erase. The Other Shore is inhumane and treats us like straw dogs, so rebellion is our only path."
She recalled that when the sacred clans of the Other Shore had descended in the past, they had thrown their weight around, but most of the people at the lowest level of the Jing Realm had still survived. Moreover, compared with ordinary commoners, she and the disciples of the Taiyi Sect still possessed some status.
Yet when Dao Sheng Zi descended, the entire Jing Realm had nearly plunged into reincarnation. When had he ever cared about the lives of the people of the Jing Realm?
The Other Shore had never regarded them as human beings. Since that was so, why not try to break free of their dependence and take control of their own fate?
Xu Ying asked, "How does Sect Master He plan to rebel?"
He Ying had already considered this a thousand times over. She said, "We'll proclaim to the people of the Jing Realm that the Jing Realm belongs to the