A Crane Immortal Comes Visiting (II)
"Heh!"
Hearing the other man still twisting the facts, Sun Wukong let out a cold laugh. He continued walking and retorted:
"Taxing people is one thing. Taking their lives is another. Mortal emperors wouldn't dare to treat human lives as worthless—they're afraid of losing their thrones!"
"But you lot dare!"
"You even..."
"You immortals and gods dare to refine people into pills!"
"And another thing!"
"You dare to disrupt the Six Paths of Reincarnation and use departed souls to forge Heavenly Soldiers!"
"I won't even get into the rest..."
"And you still claim to protect the Three Realms?"
"What you protect..."
"Is just yourselves, isn't it?"
"Old Sun saw through you long ago. You came down this time and went out of your way to find me, but it wasn't to reminisce or explain yourself."
"It's not that you realized you were wrong. You just realized you were afraid. That's all."
Sun Wukong let out another string of cold laughs.
Then he paused. Before the other man could speak, he continued with a sigh:
"Of course!"
"Heaven sent troops to attack Pansi Ridge twice this time, and its hundred thousand Heavenly Soldiers and Generals were routed. The defeat was even worse than when they sent troops to attack my Flower-Fruit Mountain. On top of that, there are so many cultivators here stronger than me, not to mention those three Saints, and that Main God..."
"Tsk, tsk!"
"If I were that old Jade Emperor, I doubt I'd have slept well these past few days!"
"Old man..."
"Be honest. Was what I just said right or wrong?"
With that, he leaned close, meeting the Crane Immortal's eyes.
"..."
The Crane Immortal held his gaze in silence for a moment, then quickly turned away.
After a while,