At this thought.
Great Sage Yunling could no longer care about his dignity as a Great Sage. He hurriedly waved his hands, his tone carrying a hint of pleading.
"Miss, please stay your hand!"
"Earlier, I failed to recognize Mount Tai before me and offended you greatly! If you are still angered by it, I am willing to offer the treasures hoarded by my Golden Roc Clan as compensation... Even if you insist that I die, I can take my own life. You must not act rashly..."
Hearing this.
Jiang Yuechu slowly shook her head.
"You led the demons of Spirit Mountain across the border and slaughtered the people of the Two Paths."
"For that, I must kill you with my own hands."
"..."
Great Sage Yunling froze, as though he had never expected that this would be her reason for wanting to kill him.
"They are merely mortals..."
He spoke instinctively, his eyes filled with incomprehension.
"We cultivators seek eternal life and long vision, transcendence through the Great Dao. Why should we care whether a swarm of ants lives or dies?"
"Only those within the mountains are immortals. Since ancient times, the immortal path has required one to sever mortal ties and draw close to heaven and earth; that is why immortals are said not to partake of the smoke and fire of the human world."
"You possess such extraordinary talent, yet you walk against the current, fixing your gaze upon the mortal mire beneath these mountains..."
Hearing this.
Jiang Yuechu merely shook her head slowly.
Compared to these demons who had lived for tens of thousands of years and retained nothing but lofty Dao cultivation.
Her past and present lives combined.
At the fullest count, amounted to no more than forty years.
Though this cultivation had come to