Every word Fairy Lingyue spoke.
Was like a cudgel crashing down on his head, striking heavily at Xu Taiping's heart.
Beating his mind ever clearer.
At last, his gaze firm, he nodded and said:
"Sister Lingyue, you're right. True fearlessness isn't merely being willing to stake your own life. It means having the courage to place those you cherish most on the chessboard, and the confidence to lead them to victory."
Those who dared stake their own lives needed only to answer for themselves.
Those who dared place the people they cherished most on the chessboard would bear ten or even a hundred times the pressure of staking their own lives.
And now, Xu Taiping clearly had the resolve to shoulder all of it.
As he spoke, he clenched the lotus seed the Earth Fruit had become and strode toward Cloud Crane True Lord and the others.
"Senior Li Daoyan, that last strike showed us that when only half of the Black Crystal skull the Primordial Lord transformed into remains, it automatically triggers a backlash."
"And that backlash should be the Immortal-Slaying Platform we just saw."
"Its power is at least equivalent to a Heaven Shocking Realm cultivator's full-force strike."
"Had Brother Pearl Relic not cast three Solid as a Golden Fortress True Words on both of us in one breath at the last moment."
"We would probably have had our heads severed by now."
At that moment, Cloud Crane True Lord was discussing the information gleaned from their death-defying strike with the Pearl Relic House Master and Azure-Eyed Evil Lord beside him.
Azure-Eyed Evil Lord nodded after listening and said:
"Even I might not be able to withstand a strike from that Immortal-Slaying Platform."
None of the three noticed Xu Taiping approaching.
Only Old Daoist Huang, whose eyes strayed