Lu Yin slammed a palm into Mingji, and with a boom, sent it flying.
Mingji landed on its back, still talking. "But gradually, I started to find ordinary lives that couldn't fight back boring, too. There were just too many of them—far, far too many. Once there's too much of something, it stops being interesting."
"I wanted them to fight back and give me some fun, but I also wanted to keep that feeling of being able to snap their lives away at any moment. Oh, right. The greatest pleasure I ever had came from a civilization called Human Civilization."
Lu Yin froze and stared at Mingji.
Mingji smiled, delighted and nostalgic. "That civilization was fascinating. They dared to resist the Main Dao and were incredibly powerful. Even the Master had a hard time dealing with them personally. It had to join forces with one Fishing Civilization after another to surround them. A civilization like that excited me, because even their ordinary people resisted the Main Dao."
"Can you imagine it? Those ordinary people had never cultivated, yet they stood on the ground, looking up at battle after battle. They didn't retreat or yield. They swore to live and die alongside those fighting. They were so foolish, it made me laugh."
"They sang battle songs. Countless humans shouted. I didn't know what good it did. Could they give strength to the humans who died in battle? Could they bring them back to life? Impossible. But seeing them do it made me so happy, because they were willing to resist, yet they were still ordinary people."
"So..."
Mingji paused. "The greatest pleasure of my life was about to begin."
Lu Yin's pupils flickered as he clenched his fists.
"Millions upon millions of humans, their lifelines snapping in droves. It was so