"If the blood in that Blood Pool hadn't nourished me before I woke up, perhaps we really would have been evenly matched. But now, I'm afraid I'll have to disappoint you.
Azure Dragon, we were never on the same starting line to begin with. Besides, you're only a clone. What do you have to fight me with?
I merely unleashed an attack with less than a tenth of my strength, and you're already struggling this badly. Do you really think you can stop me?
Wake up. Stop struggling. The way I am now, you're long past being a match for me."
Little Green said quietly, "You've grown much stronger."
Vermilion Bird nodded. "Naturally. After all, I paid for all of this.
Heaven and earth are heartless; they treat all living things as straw dogs. I traded a little of what was mine for the strength I wanted to protect myself. Isn't that perfectly normal?
Now, the history of ten thousand years ago is about to repeat itself. I have no desire to become a sacrifice in it again."
"So you made a deal with those demons and monsters!"
"What's wrong with making a deal with demons and monsters? Do you look down on them? At least they won't take my life, unlike you and that damned Heavenly Dao!
Save your breath, Azure Dragon. I stopped believing in heaven ten thousand years ago. Even if I sink into the mire, I'll drag the heavens down with me!"
Perhaps the influence of demonic qi had magnified the resentment toward the Heavenly Dao deep within Vermilion Bird's heart, or perhaps that much hatred had always been there. At that moment, Vermilion Bird charged at Little Green, resentment surging skyward.
Facing Vermilion Bird in this state, Little Green dared not let his guard down