Chapter 550


    <strong><em>Resentment</em></strong>


    “What, are you saying Ju Mang and I have to ept each other to have ess to theplete version?”


    “Precisely.”


    “What’s Hou Tu’s ability?”


    “You already saw it: mind control. I can take away the conscious of anyone my sand envelops.”


    The reason Xiang Nan failed to fight off Hou Tu during the sealing was precisely because he couldn’t wrestle back control of his consciousness.


    “Am I going to be as cold-blooded as you when I merge with Ju Mang?”


    Xiang Nan shook his head. “I’m not cold-blooded. I just don’t want to dance to Third Heaven Pce’s tune any longer.”


    “Hou Tu is the one who doesn’t want to be yed like a fiddle. You and Third Heaven Pce haven’t even interacted. Hou Tu’s will is influencing you!”


    “None of you know what I went through as a kid, do you?”


    Xiang Nan’s eyes cast down in a mournful gaze. The muscles of his face went on strike, looking ck. “When I was three years old, two cultivators parked in the airspace above our small town and faced off. One of them was a middle-aged cultivator. From what I can tell, his cultivation surpasses even my own right now. The other one was shrouded in a holy white light. I don’t think I need to tell you who thetter is.”


    “Third Heaven Pce?”


    “Correct. The middle-aged man was winning and was this close to killing the piece of turd. Cornered, that piece of turd… Kgh! That piece of turd spawned a colossal hand and ttened the entire town! Nobody, not my grandpa, not my grandma, not my parents, not my elder sister, my friends, nobody survived!


    “I’m the only survivor because the soil buried me underneath to shield me! I saw him collected the white souls of every resident in our town. That’s how he managed to turn the tables and kill his opponent.


    “Everyone in the town thought deities had descended when they saw them and were amazed. Who would’ve thought he’d massacre an entire town?! I swore to find out who that piece of turd was until Hou Tu told me he was from Third Heaven Pce and why he obliterated the entire town! He took dozens of thousands of lives just to save his hide!”


    As Xiang Nan’s tears rolled down his cheeks and onto the ground, the droplets turned to grains of sand. Although Mu Yu sympathised with Xiang Nan, he couldn’t agree to Xiang Nan’s approach and argued, “That’s why you want to rely on your power to oppose Third Heaven Pce?”


    “My family’s demise has gued me for all my life. I couldn’t even bury them because nothing remained! I probably would’ve killed myself had Shifu not picked me up. Thanks to Shifu, I gradually left the trauma behind me. I tried to be indifferent,zy and liked to sleep so that I didn’t have to think, but my desire for revenge won’t go away. Having said that, the one thing I will never tolerate is them harming Shifu after everything Shifu did for me! I will not let them obtain his immortal body. If I want to avenge my family and protect Shifu, I have no choice but to ally with Hou Tu!”


    Xiang Nan’s anger turned into energy that slowed the flow of oxygen in the air. His desire for blood contaminated Mu Yu; however, Mu Yu suppressed the urge to give in and disputed, “Shifu sacrificed himself to protect all these cultivators, so your desire to kill them is making his efforts for naught! It goes against his will!”


    “And what have they done for Shifu in return? They just bow their heads to Third Heaven Pce and blindly obey orders. Soon orter, they’ll only be Third Heaven Pce’s source of energy. I’m giving value to their deaths!”


    “Shifu said to do what you believe is right. If you think it’s the right thing to do, do it. If you don’t think it’s the right thing to do, don’t do it.


    “I have never forgotten that teaching, which is why I don’t see myself being wrong. I’m not in the wrong.”


    “They have every right to choose how they go down. If you choose to go through with this, I will stop you. Shifu will recover his cultivation soon. We can overthrow Third Heaven Pce with Shifu’s help!”


    “… Mu Yu, you are unaware of what happened at Moyun Mountains, aren’t you?” Xiang Nan asked in a frigid voice.


    “What happened?”


    “Celestial Prison has already been dismantled, yet Shifu is missing. Shifu can’t have recovered his cultivation because it hasn’t even been a year. If Third Heaven Pce has 50% of ownership to Celestial Prison and Shifu is still a Golden Core Realm cultivator, where do you think he is now?”


    “Are you saying Shif-”


    “Correct. Third Heaven Pce has already gone after Shifu. He no longer controls Celestial Prison.”