"I'm extreme?" Fang Xubai gave a self-mocking smile, then his expression suddenly turned savage. "I'm not the extreme one—the world is!!
Back then, I stood in court to uphold justice and seek fairness for the victims. But when those thugs broke into my home, shoved a knife into my mouth, and cut out my tongue, did anyone seek justice for me!?
Have you ever felt a dagger shoved into your mouth, its sharp blade grinding back and forth between your mouth and tongue?
That dagger wasn't very sharp, so even when my tongue was cut into sections, it didn't come off right away.
But as it was stirred, it eventually became a mouthful of minced flesh."
Suddenly, Fang Xubai laughed. His neat, white teeth carried a chilling glint as he spoke softly, the mutilated half of his tongue faintly visible between his lips and teeth.
He looked at Bai Ye and enunciated each word. "Have you ever tasted your own tongue?"
Bai Ye's gaze narrowed slightly. The Chief Judge before him no longer possessed the slightest trace of gentleness or refinement. His pale skin and ink-black tear streaks made him look like a vicious ghost crawling out of hell.
"If you've eaten beef tongue, perhaps you can imagine it. But a human tongue is softer, not as chewy as beef tongue."
"And that's why you want to exterminate humanity? There are certainly bad people in this world, but not everyone is bad. Not everyone deserves to die."
Fang Xubai did not answer directly. Instead, he sank into those memories.
"Do you think I awakened my Transcendence only after my tongue was cut out? No. At the time, I wasn't despairing. I still naively believed I could fight those evil forces to the end.
But what happened?
The victim withdrew the