Xing Zhou naturally understood what Lu Ye meant.
If some things were not done, there would never be a chance. But if they were done, then even with only a sliver of hope, it was worth risking one's life to carve out a possibility amid desperate straits.
He truly did not wish to be commanded by the Abyss, but defying the Abyss's will would surely come at a price—and it was not necessarily one he could bear. Thus, he had never considered turning against it.
The reason he had not gone all out when contending with Si Shengya earlier was simply because he knew he could not kill Si Shengya, so there was no need to waste effort on something futile.
Yet after hearing Lu Ye's account of the Abyss, his resolve could not help but waver.
If things were truly as Lu Ye said, then by obeying the Abyss's will now, he was aiding a tyrant in committing evil. When the day came that the Abyss eroded the entire universe, everything he belonged to would cease to exist.
From that perspective, the Abyss was the enemy of the entire universe! Its very stance was one of innate hostility toward everything.
The foremost Half-Saint wished to ask more, but Lu Ye said nothing further. He rose and walked toward a nearby Void Current.
He had intended to recruit the other party. If he succeeded, his side would gain another formidable fighting force. But Xing Zhou had his concerns, and Lu Ye would not force the issue.
Ever since he had used the Primordial Parasol Tree's hidden arrangement to trap the many incoming enemies within this spatial rift, the Phoenix Nest's crisis had effectively been resolved.
Xing Zhou's joining was no longer so important.
If they were qualified to face a