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"Yes..."
"People... should have... compassion..."
Rao Yaoyao unconsciously repeated Five Declines of Heaven and Man's words.
Because of that sentence, she was drawn into a certain state of mind.
It was the desperate yearning for survival displayed in their final moments by countless lives she had disregarded since becoming the Path-Wielding Sovereign of the Red Robes.
Man was not a sage; who could be without feeling? Everyone possessed a heart of compassion.
Rao Yaoyao had subjectively forgotten everything from her past, yet Three Aversions Eye's single sentence still made her recall bygone days.
This was precisely proof that her Emotionless Sword cultivation had yet to reach perfection.
Yet no matter how imperfect it was, faced with such guidance that tugged at the heart, Rao Yaoyao's mind instinctively resisted on the spot.
It was a state she had comprehended through the countless reincarnations in Time Nation: "The Emotionless Sword must sever emotion."
"Everything in the past has already become settled fate—mere drifting clouds!"
The three flowers in her eyes flowed out from her pupils, then dispersed once more.
At the same time, the Mortal-Realm All Beings Aspect emerged from all directions.
More than that, this time, what the sword intent of Emotion Sword Art stirred was not merely the All Beings Aspect cultivated from the mundane mortal realm.
At this moment, the mountains, stones, trees, people... everything on Void Island became the foundation upon which Rao Yaoyao anchored her true heart.
Borrowing the spirits of all things, her mind jolted awake, and she abruptly broke free of Three Aversions Eye's control.
Yet at that very moment, reflected in her pupils was Five Declines of Heaven and Man, whose soul had returned to his body and who, enduring agony, still insisted on striking to kill her, as if the two bore