"Hey, hey, I helped you so much, and you attack me the moment you attain the Dao?"
After blocking Meng Qi with the Human Emperor Sword, Xu Yue smiled as he spoke.
"I will protect you when you attain the Dao, but Black Blood Heaven's schemes must be stopped! Cooperating with the Demon Buddha is no different from seeking the skin of a tiger!"
Meng Qi was utterly unmoved by Xu Yue's words.
In his view, Azure Emperor, True Martial, and Black Blood were all still part of the Demon Buddha's plot.
This was no longer directed solely at him. It would likely bring about the collapse of the entire epoch.
As the Cause of All Fruits, he could vaguely perceive that outcome.
Though the epoch was destined to perish, the Doomsday Boat and the many other-shore sanctuaries could still shelter the living beings of the world.
But if Black Blood seized this opportunity, there would be no chance at all.
"You would oppose me for the sake of such dreamlike illusions?"
Blades and swords collided as Xu Yue blocked another of Meng Qi's strikes.
Yet those casual words stung Meng Qi all the more.
Dreamlike illusions?
"You truly have changed. Black Blood's contamination has twisted your will! I will definitely find a chance to purify you and knock some sense into you!"
As he spoke, Meng Qi's brute force, capable of opening Heaven and Earth, became ever more apparent, completely suppressing Xu Yue.
An other-shore was, after all, an other-shore—especially someone as extraordinary as Meng Qi.
Though he had only just attained the Dao, in terms of combat strength alone, he already far surpassed ordinary other-shores.
With three newly ascended other-shores suddenly intervening, the situation in which Bodhi was certain to fall was immediately reversed.
Seeing that things could