After the Taboos successfully escaped, they gathered together again.
They assembled in a desolate land, looking at one another in the cold wind, all silent. More than a dozen of them had joined forces to surround and attack him, only for one to stab them in the back, two to be captured, and the rest to flee in disgrace.
They found this outcome rather hard to accept.
In truth, if they had continued fighting and worked together as one, they could still have dealt with that man. There might simply have been casualties... and none of them wanted to die.
They had spent untold ages in ignorance before finally attaining the intelligence they possessed today. They truly did not wish to sink back into chaos.
"What do we do now?"
Someone spoke, his voice low.
Declining Fate remained silent for a long while before slowly saying, "That fiend is even stronger than we imagined. Especially that mountain at the end. I've never seen anything like it."
Though none of them knew exactly what that mountain was, they could all sense the terror within it.
"Perhaps... we should seek peace?"
Someone ventured the suggestion.
Before the words had even faded, a torrent of angry curses drowned them out.
"Seek peace?! He captured both Lunar Yin and Nether Rain, and you want to seek peace?!"
"We just tried to surround and kill him, and now you want to turn around and ask for peace? Are you the idiot, or is he?"
"You haven't eaten enough blood food, have you? Your intelligence hasn't fully developed!"
The speaker could not lift his head under their abuse and sheepishly fell silent.
But after their curses, everyone fell silent again. Fight? They could not win. Seek peace? Their opponent did not look like a fool. What