The Primordial Lord, who had already taken the gourd, suddenly lowered the wine gourd after hearing Xu Taiping's words, and the smile faded from his face.
Then he shook the wine gourd in his hand and looked expressionlessly at Xu Taiping.
"So impatient to fight me?"
Xu Taiping asked in return:
"What else?"
The Primordial Lord continued expressionlessly:
"Don't you want to ask why I came to the Shangqing Realm, or why I laid this scheme?"
As Xu Taiping slowly released his suppression of the Hidden Immortal Wine's potency, he answered calmly:
"Does a Fierce Beast need a reason to eat people?"
The Primordial Lord sneered:
"How could Fierce Beasts compare to us Abyssal Remnants?"
Hearing this, Xu Taiping, whose aura was beginning to rise little by little, asked another question:
"What difference does it make to the Human Race?"
The Primordial Lord answered:
"When humans encounter Fierce Beasts, they can only fight until one side is dead. But humans and we Abyssal Remnants can live together beneath the same heavens."
"We can even make up for one another's shortcomings and ascend to heaven together."
"Though humans are weak, they possess intelligence from birth, just like the Abyssal Remnants."
"In this world, or even throughout the boundless void, creatures endowed with intelligence are but a single hair on nine oxen."
Xu Taiping sensed an underlying meaning in the Primordial Lord's words, so he frowned and asked:
"What exactly are you trying to say?"
Picking up the wine gourd again, the Primordial Lord answered:
"The tenth abyss is different from the Nine Abysses before it. We have emerged not merely to slaughter, but also to seek a path by which the Abyssal Remnants and humans can coexist."
Xu Taiping snorted coldly, then turned to glance at the phantoms of the departed