Chapter 1362: Dramatic Turn
"Ultimately, it still comes down to a battle of Great Daos. I suppose it can also be regarded as a conflict from a previous lifetime. Now that you've mastered the laws of reincarnation, I'm sure you understand that such conflicts are unavoidable. Right now, there is no longer any direct conflict of interest between us, so why not let bygones be bygones?
“You can replace Xuanyuan Jie as one of the Seven Heavenly Dao Lords, and I can help you reach the pinnacle of the laws of reincarnation. What do you say?" Gu Huojin proposed.
"To you, these are nothing more than trivial matters of the distant past, but to me, these are excruciating experiences that are ingrained into the very fibers of my being. Besides, the conflict between the Heavenly Court and the Reincarnation Palace no longer concerns only the two of us. Countless more people have been swept up in this conflict, so no peaceful resolution is possible," the Reincarnation Palace Master replied with a shake of his head.
Gu Huojin didn't appear surprised by this response, and he asked, "In that case, what do you plan to do, Palace Master?"
"This conflict will only truly subside once one of us ceases to exist," the Reincarnation Palace Master declared.
"Despite our past differences, I had always thought of you as someone who would be able to understand me and see things from the same vantage point as I do, but it seems that I was wrong. You are still too short of sight and too narrow of mine," Gu Huojin remarked in a disappointed manner.
The Reincarnation Palace Master remained silent, seemingly waiting for Gu Huojin to continue.
"The death of your dao partner, the battle of the Great Dao between you and me, and even the deaths of the countless cultivators of the Reincarnation Palace and the Heavenly Court mean nothing in the grand scheme of things. Have you not thought about what lies above and beyond the Heavenly Dao?" Gu Huojin asked, and his amicable facade faded to reveal the ambition and ruthlessness underneath.
"You want to rise beyond the Heavenly Dao? You are already the Time Dao Ancestor and stand at the pinnacle of all cultivators, are you still not satisfied?" the Reincarnation Palace Master asked.
"I suppose it's no surprise that you don't understand me. After all, you're not a true Dao Ancestor, so you don't know how suffocating it feels to constantly have the Heavenly Dao hanging over your head. It's... an indescribable feeling that makes me want to punch a hole through the heavens!" Gu Huojin said as he clenched his fists tightly.
Everyone was rather taken aback to see this. They had never seen Gu Huojin speak like this, and they felt like this Gu Huojin was very different from his usual self.