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"An olive branch?"

Liu Dongqing's voice was so calm that no emotion could be heard within it.

It was as though he were merely repeating Pure Subtlety Spirit-Bearing Dao Lord's words, yet also as though he were questioning him along those same words.

Yet once the words fell.

Liu Dongqing said nothing more.

He merely looked quietly at the Old Dao Lord.

Though he remained silent, every detail beyond words precisely conveyed his answer—

I don't believe you!

Where he stood.

Seeing Liu Dongqing's reaction, the smile on the Old Dao Lord's face did not diminish in the slightest.

In fact, it bloomed even more splendidly.

"I know."

"There is no kindness without cause beneath heaven, nor is there malice without cause."

"Over these years, those who have successively stood against you—whether Hechu or Shouchen, even including the Thunder Sect's old Grand Supreme Elder—the forms their grudges took in practical matters may have differed."

"But at the root of it all."

"What made the relationships between you into dead knots that could never be untangled."

"It was nothing more than the competition of Great Dao Strife. That was the true root that eventually left no room to retreat, no ground to yield, forcing you to collide in a battle of life and death."

"You possess that strand of Lawbreaker Sword Qi, so you were destined to become the Dao enemy of the Myriad Phenomena Sword Sect's existing lineage."

"You have fully mastered the Innate Eight Trigrams Path, so you were destined to block Shouchen's own path toward completing the Eight Origins and Seven Transformations."

"As for the Thunder Sect's old Grand Supreme Elder."

"The changes in temperament brought about by cultivating thunder arts were one reason."

"Another reason was perhaps one neither you nor he had realized: the mutual encroachment