Lu Xun once said that human joys and sorrows were not shared.
The heart of comedy was often tragedy. Because people could not truly empathize, they found it laughable.
Once any living being gained intelligence, it began to calculate; once it learned to calculate, it became selfish. Though many creatures were born pure and selfless, most truly existed only for their own benefit.
Li Xiao did not know the exact state of the cultivation world, but from the people Owl had encountered, and from the conduct of the Myriad Beasts Alliance, the Baisen Cult, and the Venom God Cult, he did not believe the cultivation world could unite against the Abyssal Will.
If the cultivation world truly united one day, then its final day would surely have arrived!
As Li Xiao pondered, the Abyssal Demon Octopus below suddenly shot countless tentacles upward. There was clearly no sensation of being locked onto, yet every one of those tentacles pointed straight at him.
Roaming Dragon Sword Technique!
In an instant, the banner weaved among the tentacles like a roaming dragon, and in the blink of an eye, sliced every tentacle into fragments.
Li Xiao had specifically sought out the Roaming Dragon Sword Technique to pair with the Emperor Soul Banner. The banner's edges had been reinforced with Emperor-Fallen Gold; the edges were sharper than most blade-type artifacts. Moreover, the banner was incomparably soft. It could lengthen or shorten, expand or contract at will, and was superior even to the finest flexible swords.
The Roaming Dragon Sword Technique had originally been a flexible-sword art, making it perfectly suited for use with the Emperor Soul Banner.
Yet the severed tentacles immediately released vast amounts of black mist, rapidly healing within it before attacking again.
Less than a second passed from the tentacles being cut