"What?" Mother of All Spirits froze. Shock first crossed that peerlessly beautiful, dignified face, then gave way to overwhelming sorrow. No matter how Immortal Venerable and Demon Venerable had treated her or what mistakes they had made, to her, they were still lives she had created in her previous cycle. In a sense, they were her children.
The two of them had been rebellious and ambitious. They had even taken the initiative to attack her in this cycle. Yet she had never truly resented them. The only thing to blame was how desperately everyone yearned for the power to transcend reincarnation.
Immortal Venerable and Demon Venerable were hardly the only ones. Even she, who called herself the Mother of All Spirits, had longed for and pursued the power to truly transcend reincarnation. Who wanted to suffer the coercion of the Heaven and Earth Reincarnation Tribulation again and again? Though those at the Supreme level were qualified to survive the cycle, there was no guarantee. Mother of All Spirits knew all too well that many Supreme-level experts had perished in the repeated Heaven and Earth Reincarnation Tribulations.
Otherwise, where had all those fearsome vengeful spirits come from? It was clear that even Supreme-level experts needed luck to survive reincarnation.
No one wanted to follow in their predecessors' footsteps and join the Chaos Sea, filled with endless resentment and malice.
So no matter what Demon Venerable and Immortal Venerable had done, Mother of All Spirits would always forgive them and love them deeply. They would always be the two children she was proudest of, the two who had gone the furthest.
The moment she heard they were dead—killed by Azure Dragon Emperor, no, more precisely, by the fusion of Azure Dragon Emperor and half the Will of the Universe—Mother of All Spirits