I looked up at the Heavenly Demon Stone Gate and whispered, "Five Directions Tomb, Open the Heavenly Prison!"

Ye Yang stood frozen on the spot.

Ling had told us that the Five Directions Tomb was a massive interlocking lock. Opening one of them would sequentially open all five tombs.

With the Five Directions Tomb open, the Heavenly Prison Gate would be unlocked, and the Heavenly Soul would descend prematurely. The art of divination wasn't ready to face the tribulation. The consequences of a hasty battle were more than the art of divination and the world could bear.

Ye Yang and I stood before the gate, unsure of what to do.

I knew I would face such a choice, but I never expected it to come so soon.

I wasn't ready!

Zhao Yuezhu said calmly, "Li Po, I'm going back to find the demon corpse and open the tomb. You won't stop me, will you?"

"I..." I managed only one word before choking up.

A few seconds later, I burst into wild laughter, "Hahahaha..."

"The world, the common people, why do I have to choose?"

"I just want to protect Liangjie Hall. Why must I sacrifice my close friends for the greater good? Does righteousness require offering loved ones as sacrifices?"

"Hahaha..."

"I want to say, I don't want this kind of righteousness!"

"But I can't say it!"

"Hahahaha..."

"God, can't you take my life to fulfill the greater good?"

"I beg you!"

At that moment, I felt an unprecedented despair.

What good is it for a man to roam the martial world, taking life and death lightly?

There are always things you can't do!

Zhao Yuezhu turned to me and said coldly, "If you can't do it, you can choose to kill yourself! If you die, you don't have to worry about the greater good. You can also accompany your friends to the Yellow Springs. Why don't you do it?"

"You're wavering because every thought you have is uncertain."

"For the greater good, you can become a saint."

"For friendship, you can become a demon!"

"You have no heart to become a saint, nor do you show any intention of becoming a demon."

"Naturally, you will be in endless pain!"

"The Wolf King of Liangjie Hall? What a joke!"

"You don't have the decisiveness of a wolf. A true wolf only asks its own nature and never considers anything else."

The Nine-tailed Fox also said at this time, "Li Po!"

"Do you know why I want to cooperate with you?"

"Because I think you will open the tomb without hesitation for the sake of the qi of life."

"You can fight bloody battles in the martial world for Liangjie Hall. Why can't you ignore the greater good?"

"Is it because you divide the martial world, ghosts, and people too clearly?"

The Nine-tailed Fox suddenly smiled and said, "That's right! In your eyes, the killings in the martial world are the choices of the martial artists themselves. They have long recognized the life of licking blood from the blade and should put life and death aside. You kill them without any psychological burden."

"Killing ghosts! You are a sorcerer, and you are inherently opposed to ghosts. Killing them is just a casual act."

"However, you will not kill innocent people indiscriminately because you can't bring yourself to kill those who don't deserve to die."

The Nine-tailed Fox sighed, "Actually, I should have expected this result."

Zhao Yuezhu interjected, "Li Po can't sin against the world for one person, simply because that person doesn't weigh heavily enough in his heart! Nine-tails, you seem to have overestimated him."

The Nine-tailed Fox also nodded, "I have indeed overestimated him."

While Zhao Yuezhu and the Nine-tailed Fox were still singing in harmony, the entire tomb suddenly shook violently. The sound was like tons of explosives suddenly detonating, almost overturning the entire demon tomb.

Under the earth-shattering tremors, terrifying cracks spread for several meters in the cavern until they rushed to the edge of the tomb door, only to be stopped abruptly as if blocked by something.

The demon tomb didn't break, but Zhao Yuezhu's face darkened: "Jiang Chen still caught up. He destroyed the two wolf demon corpses outside."

Zhao Yuezhu sternly said, "Li Po, if you weren't so indecisive, we would have already opened the Heavenly Demon Tomb."

"You not only failed to save Liangjie Hall but also failed to save the art of divination and the common people."

"You..."

Before Zhao Yuezhu could say anything more, the Nine-tailed Fox interrupted, "Actually, there's still a way to open the demon tomb. There are no more great demon corpses here, but there is still a demon soul."

"I can walk up and open the Heavenly Demon Tomb just the same!"

The Nine-tailed Fox walked slowly towards the tomb door, "There's no need to count on Li Po and Ye Yang anymore. They can't sin against the world for one person. The only one who can do that is the Great King."

"The world says that the Great King is a foolish and tyrannical ruler. But the Great King gave me something that all women can't get."

"In fact, the Great King discovered that I was a Nine-tailed Fox before Chaoge was breached."

"At that time, he could have killed me and put all the blame on me. Perhaps he wouldn't have died."

"But the Great King still put on his armor for me and gave up his last chance of survival."

"Was the Great King wrong?"

"In the eyes of the rebel Ji Fa, the Great King was wrong. In my heart, the Great King was not wrong."

The Nine-tailed Fox suddenly laughed, "The Great King failed the world, but he didn't fail me. On the contrary, I left him at the last moment. For thousands of years, I have been regretting why I didn't go to Lutai with him and burn myself to ashes."

"My hatred for thousands of years, one is for the heavens, and the other is for myself."

"If I had the courage to die back then, I wouldn't be living so painfully."