"In this world... there are no eternal enemies. There never are."
"Even the Demon Race may not necessarily be our eternal enemy."
Flood said, "Who counts as an enemy depends on how far you can see. Only when you can see to a more distant level will you cherish these enemies, because these people are the finest whetstones on our path forward."
"A hundred years cultivating alone in a secluded chamber cannot compare to ten years traveling and fighting in the Jianghu; and once you reach a certain level of cultivation, a hundred thousand years in solitary seclusion may not even compare to a single battle against an equal!"
"That is vision."
"What those at the top see is never vengeance and slaughter, but the road ahead. The stars are the pieces, and Heaven is the board; those who can wield the pieces and play are the real badasses."
"Even if we cannot wield the pieces and play, as pieces ourselves, we can still fight our way to a world of our own. If we are pieces, then our ultimate goal is to leap off the board."
Flood Great Shaman spoke very slowly. "Exterminate Star Soul? Unify the continent? What is that? What does that amount to?!"
"Nothing more than a game, a contest."
"Liehuo, all of you need to raise your level, especially the level of your vision. If your vision cannot reach it, your state of mind never will; if your state of mind cannot reach it, your achievements never will... Then you can only sink and struggle in the mortal world, life after life, instead of standing at the summit and watching the mortal world turn upside down."
Great Shaman Liehuo listened carefully and earnestly.
He etched every word deep into his heart, feeling as though his