Chen Xun froze, then slowly put the pill away and casually asked, "Why was Huang Shao hunted down by the Immortal Hall?"
"We were recognized as being from a Small Realm. On Southern Yu Continent, we verbally offended a descendant of a great clan. With one sentence, they pinned ten crimes on us..."
Dai Xinqing spoke word by word, as though gritting his teeth. "They did not even give him the chance to go to Taiyi Immortal Prison. Southern Yu Immortal Hall directly sent people to kill Huang Shao. The rules of the Great World... Senior, they were fundamentally made for those great powers!"
His final words had turned hoarse, as though the resentment accumulated in his heart over several centuries had erupted in an instant. Protecting the weak? What they protected were the weak descendants of those great powers!
Once those people grew up, they would naturally uphold the rules, because they had always been able to go farther and stand higher. But what did any of that have to do with ordinary cultivators like them?! Those who believed in it were the biggest fools.
Though the Small Realm had been chaotic, at least there had been a chance to survive, a chance to fight a battle. Even other people's ancestors had cared about their dignity.
But the Immortal Hall's powerful figures had no regard for dignity whatsoever. They only cared about total suppression.
Ordinary cultivators like them were not even worthy of standing before others. They were crushed to death like ants.
That was also why, when Chen Xun had summoned him at the beginning, he had not dared hesitate in the slightest. Fear had seeped into his bones; he did not dare defy anyone.
Chen Xun slightly parted his lips, wanting to say something, yet not knowing