Crack, crack, crack...
Although he had long anticipated sacrifices on this journey, Xu Taiping's emotions still surged violently when he saw Kang Cangzi's body scatter like ashes after his Liberation by Violence. The knuckles of his clenched fists crackled.
Sensing Xu Taiping's emotional turmoil, Lady Jade Mother said expressionlessly:
"I thought that after so many brushes with life and death, your Dao Heart would already be as still as undisturbed water."
Xu Taiping replied with an equally expressionless face:
"I still cannot manage that."
Jade Mother continued:
"If your Dao Heart is unsettled, even if you reach the Ultimate Realm of Ascension, even if you qualify to ascend, you still cannot open the Heavenly Gate."
At her words, a flash of killing intent suddenly crossed Xu Taiping's eyes, and he murmured:
"Then I will sweep away everything before me that unsettles my Dao Heart! Only then will I choose when to ascend!"
At those words, Lady Jade Mother's golden vertical pupils abruptly contracted.
At the same time, a gratified smile appeared on her face, so breathtakingly beautiful that one dared not look directly at it.
Boom! Rumble...!
Just then, amid the violent rumbling of heaven and earth shaking, the space in one area of the Reflected Projection began twisting madly.
Xu Taiping looked closely and discovered that it was precisely where Kang Cangzi had performed his Liberation by Violence.
Boom...!
Just as curiosity filled their faces, another tremendous crash rang out, and a mangled, bloody figure appeared there out of thin air.
When that figure raised his head, Second Senior Brother Dugu Qingxiao could not help exclaiming:
"It's him?!"
That figure was none other than Heaven-Gate Rogue Person.
While everyone stared in astonishment, Lady Jade Mother spoke calmly, as though she had anticipated this all along:
"With Heaven-Gate Rogue Person's