"Who wouldn't want to sit comfortably on the fishing terrace and cultivate in peace?"
"It's human nature."
Sword-Thunder Celestial sighed. "We elders aren't insisting that you must practice the sword. Isn't the path of spell cultivation good too? Its inheritance only reaches the eighth tier, far below the sect's sword cultivation inheritance, but among countless billions, scarcely one can become someone like the ancestor. The spell cultivation inheritance is more than enough."
"But Longevity Tortoise, a sword cultivator cannot practice the sword that way."
"He truly cannot."
"Once he takes this path, he is destined to walk beside life and death, through bloody storms all the way, without regret."
Longevity-Turtle Divine Lord fell silent.
His elders had said these things countless times before. He had heard them so often his ears were nearly callused.
But he still could not accept watching his little brother die before his eyes, then letting the killer leave triumphant, laughing aloud.
"Uncle Sword Thunder!"
"That Sun Lineage sword cultivator!"
Longevity-Turtle Divine Lord growled unwillingly, "He's approaching the level of a Dao Child! His cultivation method is Pure Yang, without any of the reason or composure a Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm method should have. He's more like a madman, one even more deranged than us!"
"Even if he has no reason, he'll find a way to invent one so he can kill us."
"And now the Thunder-Yang Heaven Sword Realm has made an irreconcilable enemy of him—an irreconcilable enemy of a sword cultivator approaching the level of a Dao Child!"
"If someone like that, a sword prodigy who has comprehended his lineage's inherited sword path, is allowed to grow, he needn't even become someone like the ancestor. If he simply becomes a powerhouse like you, how great a price will the sect have to pay to