"Little Ye, I suspect you're just messing with us," Tian Jue said to Ye Xiu, looking a little speechless.
This was fucking ridiculous. The Empire had Genesis Level beings, and it still needed their help?
It plainly didn't.
"Something's off," Doggie said.
"What's off?" Ye Xiu looked curiously at Doggie, a strange glint in his eyes. Something was off? What, exactly?
"The Empire doesn't seem to care about destiny," Doggie said gravely.
At Doggie's words, Ye Xiu realized it too. The Empire had seemingly never made a move to seize destiny.
The thought left Ye Xiu stunned.
Tian Jue was stunned too. There were actually people who didn't want destiny—and an entire faction, at that? But judging by the current situation...
That really did seem to be the case. The Empire had never made a move to seize destiny.
The ones who had acted were the Taboo beings of those Families. Those Families didn't represent the Empire's will. That distinction mattered.
"The Empire doesn't seem interested in destiny at all. Either it isn't strong enough, or the Empire..." Doggie left the rest unsaid.
Ye Xiu and Tian Jue both caught on.
Those were the only two possibilities.
Either the Empire already had so much destiny that it didn't care about these lesser destinies, or it wasn't strong enough.
But the Half-Step Genesis corpses hanging high above them said it all. Not strong enough?
What a joke.
The Empire had just fucking taken out nine Half-Step Genesis beings, along with a whole bunch of Taboo beings.
It had wiped out an entire clan.
Some might have slipped through the net, but the surviving members of the Lone Heart Clan could no longer offer any resistance against a colossus like the Empire.
The Lone Heart Clan had now been all but erased