Riding the spreading shockwave of the spell explosion, Ming Fang successfully carried Xu Zheng away from the place where the two sides were battling.
His conviction at this moment was not complicated. He simply wanted to do everything in his power to play the role of a righteous prodigy in the earth-shattering scheme laid out by the Devil Master, and to help Bai Yu achieve that true purpose she could not speak of to others.
Xu Zheng's Dao heart had originally scattered, but with Ming Fang's reminder, he gained some enlightenment in the final moments of his life and swallowed that Sarira Relic. With the aid of this Buddhist treasure, he had briefly returned to his peak condition.
Of course, they had to fight for survival. Even if it was a hopeless situation where death awaited them ten times over, they still had to struggle with all their strength until the very end.
Only then, when they met that helpless and despairing death, could everything appear reasonable and complete this deception under the Upper Cultivators' very noses.
"Ming Fang, throughout my life of cultivation, I have never had a single friend..."
Feeling the gentle power of Buddhist Dharma flowing from the Compassionate Voyage Kasaya, a trace of warmth appeared on Xu Zheng's ever-stern face. "Lord Devil Master pulled me from a heap of corpses and raised me into what I am today. I was a death warrior meant to offer everything to the Holy Maiden. The grace of saving and remaking my life outweighed all else, so I had long accepted my fate. I knew that one day, I would offer everything to the Holy Maiden, including this life of mine."
"Before becoming a New Heaven cultivator, I killed many people—cultivators and mortals alike. I never missed. In the words