"Forget it! No matter how good someone else's path is, it can't compare to your own. But is it worth paying such a price just to imprint my Dao fruit?"
Clearly, even Lin Yue felt that the price the other party had paid exceeded the value of imprinting his Dao fruit.
"You don't understand. This is an obsession. Those at our level have nothing left to pursue except supremacy. Your path is extremely unusual. I have a feeling that it will help me greatly, more than all the Dao fruits I have imprinted over the endless ages combined. Besides, you are too young. You haven't endured the baptism of time. One day, after you have watched everyone you know die or grow old, watched eras rise and fall, and watched heaven and earth perish and be reborn countless times, you will be like me. It isn't numbness, but the ability to face it calmly. When that time comes, what will remain worth pursuing besides supremacy?"
The other party spoke, placing immense value on Lin Yue's Dao fruit. He wanted to imprint it, and he laid bare his innermost thoughts to Lin Yue.
The pursuit of supremacy? Those Quasi-Immortal Emperors in the terrifying Boundary Sea were the same. It had already become an obsession, and some had even sacrificed their own Divine Kingdoms just to ascend to supremacy. For those who had not entered the Emperor realm, proving whether that realm existed had also become an obsession. They were like those people in Shrouding the Heavens who questioned the heavens again and again, almost driven mad, just to prove whether immortals existed.
Although this was also a martial cultivator's ultimate goal, Lin Yue had none of the mentality the other party described. Only by never forgetting his original heart could he