The Immortal Artifact Sect fell silent.
There was no more clamor, no more roaring, no more chaotic arrays or dark, bloody things. Every living being fell silent and stopped disturbing the Great Sun Sword Heir's thoughts.
That was good.
Jiang Ding walked across the grounds of the Immortal Artifact Sect, step by step, through stretches of ash.
At last, he came before the Reverse Five-Elements Zhou-Tian Demon-Refining Furnace. He seized it by a handle and lifted it, sending his divine sense inside to scan it bit by bit.
"You!"
"Kill me! You damned insect! Damned junior..."
The Immortal Artifact Supreme shrieked, cursed, and roared madly.
He clearly wanted to kill himself, but he could not. From the moment this human Supreme arrived, the Immortal Artifact Supreme had ceased to belong to himself. He belonged to the azure-robed youth before him.
"I hate this!"
"I hate it so much!"
"The heavens are unjust!"
The Immortal Artifact Supreme's venomous curses drew no response. He roared in defiance. "I labored for hundreds of thousands of years and finally won my freedom! I was even about to destroy the human Immortal Orders of this world. I was so close!"
"How could one human anomaly, one junior, destroy everything my clan and I worked for in an instant?"
"How much did I sacrifice?"
"Time and again, how many times did I escape death by a hair?"
"Unjust!"
"Thieving heavens! This is unjust!"
The Immortal Artifact Supreme's eyes burned red. He struggled and roared, but it meant nothing.
Humanity, an overlord of the endless stars, was a race with an extraordinarily wide gulf between its lowest and highest reaches. The birth of one peerless human prodigy could change everything, utterly destroying every advantage other races had painstakingly built.
All that resentment and venom amounted to nothing