"Not bad."
Lin Heng nodded sincerely.
"People all say that a world of immortal cultivation ought to be the weak are prey to the strong, the strong devouring the weak. That point isn't exactly wrong. But the problem is, the Immortal Realm's immortal path has been cut off."
"The immortal path being cut off affects everyone. No need to speak of distant things; everyone's realm is stuck at the peak of the Great Vehicle, and their lifespan has an upper limit, at most five thousand years, ten thousand years. Once a Periodic Cataclysm passes, they'll turn to ash and smoke, not even leaving behind descendants or an inheritance."
"Ask yourself, does the human race still need to keep fighting among itself like this? With all this you-cheat-me-and-I-trick-you, is it clever, or is it stupid?"
Dugu Yueli listened quietly without interrupting.
Lin Heng continued, "Since everyone's ideal is to prove the Dao, ascend, and become immortal, to go see that vast and boundless great universe of the All Heavens, to witness the immeasurable vastness of immortal arts... then we shouldn't keep fighting like this anymore.
"We should unite our hearts and strength and work toward one goal.
"Even if we first let one person become immortal, open up the immortal path, and then drive the people behind to become immortal as well, that might not be impossible!"
"As long as one person becomes immortal, then everyone has hope. If not a single immortal emerges... we are destined to be mayflies shaking a tree, a single grain in the vast sea, for our entire lives."
After he finished, the two looked at each other for a moment.
Dugu Yueli said, "So, we can start by recruiting and appeasing them. After all, when the Martial Emperor unified the continent back then, it wasn't