Beneath Eleven Mountains and Waters

"Sir, don't you think the Heavenly Dao is a little too heartless...?"

True Person Huai Jin watched Ye Xiu coldly dissect the entire course of events, and he did not even know what expression to wear.

It was difficult to describe the shock he had felt when he saw these things in those secretly passed-down memories.

So many things had happened in the world of the past. And heaven and earth, which had seemed so lofty and untouchable, had done so many things that made one shudder.

This fundamentally shook cultivators' reliance on heaven and earth. Having witnessed the miserable fates of those ancient foreign races, even though he knew that the heaven and earth of this moment were no longer as they had been at the beginning of all things, he could not help imagining what he should do to ensure his own continued existence if he, too, became one of those targeted by heaven and earth...

Seeing the somewhat strange expression on True Person Huai Jin's face, Ye Xiu rolled his eyes.

"Tell me, are you putting your own feelings and thoughts into heaven's place again?"

He gave a derisive snort. Yet rather than hurrying into action, he began his explanation amid the golden leaves drifting down around them.

"I told you before: heaven and earth are not benevolent; they treat all things as straw dogs."

"You call them Lord Heaven and Lord Earth so affectionately now. Their existence has indeed left soil for you and me to survive in, but in truth, heaven and earth have never held any feelings toward our existence from beginning to end."

"Or rather, heaven and earth are merely things driven by instinct. They might not even count as living beings."

He pointed at the great tree beside them. After giving it