Xu Changqing looked at those amber dragon eyes. The surging emotions in his heart nearly overwhelmed his reason. He took a step back, looked up at the dragon head that blotted out the sky and sun, and said resolutely, "I can undergo Tribulation Transcendence anywhere.
The River of Time or Celestial Pivot Star, it makes no difference.
Even if I return to Jade Balance Star and become trapped again.
But I cannot make you sacrifice yourself."
At that moment, he could neither accept nor understand it.
Azure Dragon said nothing, merely watching him in silence.
Its dragon whiskers drifted slowly in the wind, each sway stirring a tide of Wood Qi.
Seeing that it remained silent, Xu Changqing's voice turned urgent. "Senior, when we first met, I was merely a Spirit Transformation cultivator who had just entered the Four Directions Star Region.
You gave me the Heaven-and-Earth Furnace and the Azure Dragon Bloodline. I have always remembered this kindness.
Now, to demand your life... I, Xu Changqing, cannot do such a thing, nor will I ever be able to."
Azure Dragon stared at the white-haired cultivator for a long time without speaking.
It had to admit that the man before it did possess a faint trace of Lord of Creation Dao.
The same stubbornness, the same refusal to yield to fate.
But a shadow was ultimately only a shadow.
Lord of Creation Dao had once tried to reject Great Dao Venerable's arrangement as well. What had the result been?
His true body had been erased, while his remaining consciousness had been suppressed in the depths of the Evernight Ruins for who knew how many tens of thousands of years!
"You need not dwell on this matter."
Azure Dragon's voice pressed down heavily from above, calm to the point of near