"Soul Destruction Rebirth? For the sake of Soul Destruction Rebirth, you actually gave up cultivation you had painstakingly accumulated over who knew how many years? You probably couldn't even retain half a percent of your former cultivation, could you?"
Watching spiritual blood spray wildly from all over Shui Qing Li Huo Hou's body as its cultivation plummeted like a rock, Ye Zhen was utterly shocked!
Shui Qing Li Huo Hou's entire body trembled violently. It even convulsed continuously from the eruptions of spiritual blood. Its ten-thousand-meter-long body was visibly shrinking at an astonishing rate.
Its beastly face was twisted with ferocity, yet within that ferocity lingered streaks of frenzied laughter.
"So what if my cultivation falls? Compared to being able to control my own fate, never mind losing more than ninety percent of my cultivation—even losing it all and starting over from scratch would be acceptable!"
"You've never lost your freedom, so you don't understand how precious freedom is! I've had enough, so today, I'm putting everything on the line!" Shui Qing Li Huo Hou roared.
"But you've forgotten one thing! Cultivation is also a necessary condition for ensuring freedom. Now that your cultivation is plummeting so quickly, all it would take is a slightly stronger martial artist to capture you again and forcibly brand you. Then, you would lose your freedom once more!"
At this point, Ye Zhen paused. "Perhaps even I could enslave you again!"
"Impossible!"
Before Ye Zhen had even finished speaking, Shui Qing Li Huo Hou began to howl like mad. "Absolutely impossible! I've calculated it carefully. My cultivation will indeed fall drastically, but even after falling, I'll still be among the strongest in this region of yours! Hmph, once I escape, the treasures that dead bastard Di left behind for his successor will allow my