Asking someone for help and then getting him killed in the process—there was no defending that.
If the True Martial Emperor died this time, how would they ever ask anyone for a favor again...
Meng Chuan found the situation troublesome. So did True Martial and Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva.
They wanted to live, not die.
They had endured for so long. Dying now would be far too bitter a loss.
After suffering so much for so long, they would get nothing out of it. Wouldn't all that suffering have been for nothing?
"When will this Great Dao Tribulation end..." True Martial murmured. He seemed to be talking to himself, but his words were meant for Meng Chuan and the other two.
Meng Chuan fell silent. He recalled the Wuliang Dao Tribulation he faced, then compared it with the Primordial Unity Dao.
He felt a little relieved. On his end, it should be over soon.
"Daoist Friend True Martial, if I'm right, the Great Dao Tribulation will end soon," Meng Chuan said. Then he changed tack and tossed the question to the Ancestral Dragon and Ancestral Phoenix.
"But I don't know what the two of them think."
The Ancestral Dragon and Ancestral Phoenix fell silent too, probably speaking in private.
"When the Great Dao Tribulation ends isn't up to us," the Ancestral Dragon said.
Meng Chuan was surprised. Did they not know what they had with them?
How could they not even make that judgment?
His heart grew heavy. If the Ancestral Dragon and Ancestral Phoenix had no control over it, the Great Dao Tribulation might continue indefinitely.
Then even Near-Limitless Beings might not be safe...
True Martial and Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva understood what the Ancestral Dragon meant.
They couldn't be sure!
Meng Chuan had at least given them an answer, but the Ancestral