"I've given you the chance. Whether you can seize it is up to you. My patience is limited."
Ye Lin spoke again as he looked at the young man below.
If this young man truly failed to appreciate kindness, then he could not blame him.
Cultivation was this cruel. One had to contend with Heaven and contend with Earth; at times like this, no one would care whether you were merciful or not.
Mercy would sooner or later cause one to fall into the Endless Abyss.
"H-How domineering."
Bao Xiaotou, watching from afar, gaped as he murmured. Were all the strong this domineering?
Though he possessed peak True Immortal cultivation, he had never been domineering.
Looking back on his entire life of cultivation, he was either running away or on the road to running away.
"I refuse. I painstakingly cultivated for countless eons before finally giving birth to spiritual intelligence. I have never killed, never gone out, never caused trouble—why must you force me like this?"
"Is simply being alive a mistake?"
The young man's face was filled with grief and indignation. He had never gone out or provoked anyone. He only wanted to live—had even living now become a crime?
"There is nothing wrong with being alive, but being weak is wrong."
"In this man-eat-man world, however you choose to live is your own business. But your weakness is the original sin."
"Since you have made your decision, I can only erase your spiritual intelligence."
Ye Lin said coldly, without the slightest emotion on his face. Having severed his evil thoughts and good thoughts, he had long since lost any compassion. His current actions and emotions were merely his self-corpse at work.
The day he completely severed his self-corpse, he would become a stone through and through—a cold, lifeless