"Think carefully, when the extraterrestrial demons invaded the Primordial World, neither the Witch and Demon tribes nor the five Saints of the Heavenly Dao could resist. Only you, as the savior, with a mere flick of your finger, captured the extraterrestrial demon Fang Ming and took him as a disciple..."
"This is the ultimate way to show off, the most effective way to boost your prestige, Saint Taiqing!"
"What is showing off? This is showing off! By stepping on the young Human Emperor with high prestige, using his fame as a stepping stone, Saint Taiqing, your prestige will be even higher!"
"This move is called crushing someone's fame to increase your prestige! The higher the opponent's prestige, the higher your prestige will be after crushing them!"
"So high it reaches the heavens!"
Sitting in his chariot, Saint Taiqing, who was listening to the entire speech, withdrew his dangerous gaze and nodded with satisfaction.
He was very satisfied with the flattering words.
Extremely satisfied.
And he wanted to put it into practice.
Saint Taiqing spoke very slowly, word by word.
In a tone that was incredibly arrogant, he said to Fang Ming:
"Human Emperor, you have exhausted all my faith among the human race, overturned all my statues as Saint Taiqing, and submerged them in cesspools..."
"You have caused me to no longer have any luck to occupy among the human race, and you have abolished my faith as Saint Taiqing! You have seized the luck that rightfully belonged to me!"
"You have abolished the Golden Core Dao that I passed down among the human race, forcing all humans to cultivate the Heaven-Shielding Method instead."
"This is abolishing my means of controlling the human race! It allows the human race to regain freedom and escape my control!"
"And now, you have completely crippled Xuandu's cultivation! You have turned my Human Sect's first disciple, the Grand Master of the Three Teachings, my only disciple as Saint Taiqing, into a cripple... His Taiyi Dao fruit has been destroyed, and he has no future whatsoever..."
"Between you and me, there is a deep-seated hatred. Do you really think that doing these things requires no price?"
Saint Taiqing looked down at the Human Emperor.
He said, "I, Saint Taiqing, teach the Primordial World with the Dao of a Saint, earning the title of Saint and the word 'Morality,' hence I am called the Heavenly Venerable of Taiqing Morality."
"A Saint of the Primordial World... is not just a Saint in terms of strength, but also a Saint in terms of state of mind, naturally possessing magnanimity. Unlike you, Fang Ming, who is cold-blooded and heartless."
"Therefore..."
"Although you are an extraterrestrial demon who descended upon the Primordial World, disrupted the Primordial World's script, and madly altered the plot, committing grave errors, I will, considering your young age, grant you a special pardon for your life this once."
Saint Taiqing said shamelessly:
"The words of a Saint are not empty."
"If you voluntarily become my alchemical boy, Saint Taiqing, all grudges and deep hatred between us will be settled."
"I will no longer hold you accountable for abolishing my faith, abolishing my Golden Core Dao, or even crippling Xuandu's cultivation."
"Fang Ming, have you not realized... your disposition is too extreme? I want you to be my alchemical boy, not for the sake of showing off, but to temper your disposition, to make you a new person, and to realize that what you have done before was wrong."
Saint Taiqing glanced at Xuandu, who was already a cripple, and immediately abandoned him.
Since he was already a cripple, why bother with him?
He continued, "Xuandu entered my Human Sect for the sake of the human race."
"You, for the sake of the human race, can also enter my Human Sect."
"However, your sins are grave, and you will need to undergo ideological education within the Human Sect before you can become my true disciple. Until I am satisfied, you will first serve as a fire-stirring boy in the alchemy room."
"Crippling your Heaven-Shielding Method cultivation will also serve to temper your disposition. Having such a state of mind and disposition will greatly benefit your future cultivation of Primordial World laws."
"Although your status is that of an alchemical boy, I will impart to you all the methods for refining Pills from the First to the Ninth Revolutions, so you will not be treated unfairly... When you have refined pills for me for billions of years and stirred the fire for billions of years, you will learn many things, many things you could not learn before."
"Fang Ming, as long as you yield, I promise you that after living as an alchemical boy for 6.4 billion years, I will immediately expel Xuandu from the Human Sect, and you will become the first disciple of the Human Sect, the Grand Master of the Three Teachings. How about that?"
"You have two paths: death or life. Choose yourself!"
As Saint Taiqing spoke, his arrogant tone and shamelessness reached their peak!
He also kicked away the already crippled Xuandu with a single foot!
Xuandu, whose cultivation had been abolished, heard Saint Taiqing's intention to strip him of his status as the first disciple of the Human Sect. Enraged, he recovered from his severe injuries.
He cursed, "Taiqing dog! You have no regard for past affections at all? Seeing Fang Ming's talent and potential, you immediately kicked me aside?"
"Immediately kicked me out of the Human Sect?"
"And you speak of a Saint's state of mind? A Saint's state of mind means having the highest moral character, acting in accordance with one's words, and being supremely good..."
"It means treating all beings equally, regardless of their status or social standing!"
"You, Taiqing dog, apart from possessing the strength of a Saint, do you have even a shred of a Saint's disposition or any moral character?"
"You claim the words of a Saint are not empty. You also promised me that I would be the first disciple of the Human Sect for life! Now you've completely turned your back on me! You've swallowed all your previous words!"
Xuandu pointed at Saint Taiqing and cursed ferociously!
He cursed Saint Taiqing for abandoning him the moment he saw he was useless after his cultivation was crippled!
He had no regard for Xuandu's years of servitude and flattery!
Saint Taiqing, sitting in his sedan chair, frowned.
"Isn't it normal to be abandoned when you're no longer useful? Why are you making such a fuss and screaming like a madman?"
With a sweep of his Saintly power, he instantly annihilated Xuandu's primordial spirit and physical body, causing Xuandu to perish completely, with no chance of return!
Saint Taiqing killed Xuandu!
Xuandu died!
Xuandu perished!
Although Fang Ming had crippled his cultivation, he had also left a trace of immortal law within his Taiyi Dao fruit!
Theoretically, Xuandu, who had become a mortal, could live for hundreds of millions of years with this trace of Taiyi immortal law, without any problem!
From this perspective, Fang Ming had not killed Xuandu, nor did he intend to kill him. At most, he would have handed him over to the human race's judicial system for judgment!
However...
Before coming here, Xuandu probably never imagined that the one who would ultimately kill him would not be Fang Ming, his enemy.
Not his enemy in his mind, his imagined enemy, the extraterrestrial demon who descended upon the Primordial World.
But - Saint Taiqing, whom Xuandu considered his own, his master!
If Xuandu had known this outcome earlier, he would surely have felt that he died with deep regret!
He had served Saint Taiqing as a dog for so many years, only to end up like this!