NOVPUBChapter 997: Chapter 877 Homeless Dog_3 Chapter 997: Chapter 877 Homeless Dog_3 “Lin Yun! True Martial!”
Having narrowly escaped from the clutches of those Peak Saint Lords, the Langya Saint Lord, upon emerging from the dense grey fog, had flitted about in constant teleportation like a headless fly. He had just teleported to this place when he felt a powerful aura rising, which startled him.
Soon, he laid eyes on Lin Yun and the True Martial Saint Lord and couldn’t help but speak out with a complex expression on his face.
Just moments ago, he was locked in a life-and-death struggle with Lin Yun and the True Martial Saint Lord, even going so far as to use various means to enrage Lin Yun for fear that he might escape. But in just an instant, he, Lin Yun, and the True Martial Saint Lord had become nothing more than homeless dogs, fleeing in utter disarray.
Indeed, “homeless dogs” was an apt description for them.
He and the True Martial Saint Lord were once the two most powerful rulers of the Immortal Origin World, holders of the highest authority. Lin Yun was the later Lord of Immortal Origin. Now, the Immortal Origin World had collapsed, and all the spirits upon the Earth, the very cradle of the Immortal Origin World, had perished.
In such circumstances, weren’t they just like homeless dogs?
“Langya…” On the other side, the True Martial Saint Lord also wore a look of complexity upon seeing the Langya Saint Lord.
Although he and the Langya Saint Lord had just been fighting to the death, with the Langya Saint Lord even almost getting killed by outsiders, they had been cultivating together since youth and had grown up side by side. The True Martial Saint Lord was, after all, the senior brother of the Langya Saint Lord, and it was hard not to feel conflicted seeing them both brought so low.
“True Martial, now you can gloat. The Immortal Origin World has been destroyed, Chu Lee is dead, and I guess not many of the Saint Lords I brought in survived. I can no longer take part in shattering the thirty-fourth Layer of Heaven of this universe. All my schemes, all in vain. You can ridicule me as much as you like…” Soon, the Langya Saint Lord’s complex emotions settled, and he looked at the True Martial Saint Lord with a self-deprecating smile.
“Initially, the Grand Master Taoist Ancestor left this universe with all our senior brothers and handed the Immortal Origin World to me, along with its people. Now, the Immortal Origin World has been destroyed, and most of its people are dead. Those who aren’t dead have been abandoned by me since I selfishly fled alone. What do I have to be proud of?” Hearing the Langya Saint Lord’s words, the True Martial Saint Lord’s expression faded as he spoke indifferently.
“Haha, yes, the Grand Master Taoist Ancestor entrusted the Immortal Origin World to you… He really does play favorites, doesn’t he? Initially, as we broke layer after layer of this universe’s dimensions together, my talent was no less than yours, and, due to my diligent cultivation, I was even stronger than you at one point. Yet, the Grand Master Taoist Ancestor kept giving you more of the universe’s Origin Force each time. Eventually, you broke through to the Saint Lord Realm, while I, after putting forth all my effort, only managed to break through to the upper echelon of the Saint Lord Realm. How vast is that gap?”
“Later on, when the Grand Master Taoist Ancestor left the universe with seventy senior brothers to ascend to a higher plane, our master had seventy-two disciples. Even if I wasn’t the best among them, I surely wasn’t the worst either. So why was I the only one left behind… He left you here because you were trusted and given an important mission. But what does my being left behind mean? He didn’t want to take me to the higher planes, did he? Haha! The Grand Master Taoist Ancestor is really biased…” the Langya Saint Lord said with a mad laugh.
“Despite his low regard for me, and his favoritism, I had no desire to comply with his wishes. I wanted to break the thirty-fourth Layer of Heaven of this universe… He said that with each new Layer of Heaven shattered, the obtained Origin Force will exceed the combined force acquired from shattering all the preceding layers. He only led the way to shattering the thirty-third Layer. So, I had to lead the way to shatter the thirty-fourth Layer of Heaven. I hoped to eventually surpass him in strength… After reaching the outside, once my power grew, I would stand before him, to make him see, to see if he had misjudged me as a disciple and if he would regret treating me this way!”
At this point, Langya Saint Lord’s face had twisted into something ferocious.
The plans he spoke of had clearly become an obsession in his heart.
Listening to the Langya Saint Lord’s words, Lin Yun remained silent.
Since ancient times, the problem has not been scarcity, but inequality.
Clearly, what befell the Langya Saint Lord stemmed from this.
But then, where in this world could one find true fairness?
As the saying goes, gratitude for a bowl of rice, resentment for an extra scoop. The Grand Master Taoist Ancestor, Er Lee, had given him much, yet for a slight unfairness, he bore such a grudge and even went so far as to kill his own senior brother, his master’s mother, his own kin.
Such a state of mind is already a sickness.
Perhaps, it was precisely because the Grand Master Taoist Ancestor, Er Lee, had detected this state of mind in the Langya Saint Lord that he had treated the latter as he did?
As the saying goes, there is always a reason for the result. If the Grand Master Taoist Ancestor, as the Langya Saint Lord claimed, treated his disciple unfairly, certainly it was not without reason, and perhaps that reason laid within the Langya Saint Lord himself. 𝙣𝙤𝙫𝙥𝙪𝙗.𝒄𝙤𝙢
As the Langya Saint Lord voiced these thoughts, the True Martial Saint Lord also remained silent, his eyes revealing ever more sorrow.
“Don’t look at me with those eyes. Don’t you know how much I loathe being looked at like that…” the Langya Saint Lord, noticing the True Martial Saint Lord’s expression, snapped impatiently with a loud shout.
