Yes.
Xu Xing did not attack directly.
For one thing, the information he had obtained earlier had all come from the incomplete, fragmented memories of that God Forging Floating Moon spirit, and was far from comprehensive.
For another...
Even now, he had not sensed the slightest malice from Ruo.
He was not someone particularly impulsive.
He had to get the facts straight first.
Looking at the white pearl that had rolled to his side, something inscrutable flickered in her eyes.
She raised her head to look at Xu Xing, covered in blood and appearing especially savage and terrifying.
"May I ask why you did this?"
Aside from the First Ancestral Spirit, who was about to advance to Void Derivation, the Floating Moon spirit clan still had four Nurturing Self cultivators.
Not to mention over seventy God Forging cultivators and countless Condensing One cultivators.
No matter how strong he was, facing them alone should have carried no small risk, right?
"Because I can no longer endure this sort of thing—having to sacrifice something in order to preserve something else and keep moving forward."
Yes!
In the past, he had possessed neither the ability nor the right to save or change anything.
But now was different.
At the very least, what he had encountered today was something he could change and salvage if he gave it his all.
"Paying a certain price so that more people can live—isn't that perfectly normal?" Ruo asked softly.
"So that is your answer?" Xu Xing tightened his grip on his sword.
"No." Ruo shook her head slightly.
"Actually, I don't know either."
"It's just that ever since I was little, everyone has told me so."
Xu Xing's expression did not change, but a thread of spiritual power flowing out from him shook the blood clinging to