Chapter 327 – Truths and Lies (XIII)

Chapter 327

Truths and Lies (XIII)

Ignoring his Master’s oddly cryptic words, Long Tao resisted rolling his eyes and casually struck his sword sideways in a stabbing motion; shadows untwined from the void as a figure cloaked in black groaned, holding the gaping wound for a moment before collapsing, dead, and rolling down the set of seats.

He ignored the rest, turning his attention to the pretend-immortal floating in the sky. His daughter had already descended, running like a maddened beast toward Xi Zhao, while he remained afloat, akin to an overseer looking at something well beneath him.

Long Tao naturally had no means of flight–not any time yet–but if the ordinary walls were enough to hold him back, he would have never climbed as far as he did in his past life.

If there were no way to reach someone in the sky?

It was simple: just make way.

He slashed horizontally with the sword at seemingly nothing, taking a step forward–just as it seemed his foot would naturally fall back down as there was nothing there… it stopped. He then slashed once more, stepping up with the other–void vibrated under the weight of his feet, but it never collapsed.

Once again he slashed, all while the world began to teeter at the edge of collapse–there were battles ongoing everywhere, yet he ignored them all, his eyes focused on the man in the sky.

Despite having set up an array that afforded him a chance, that was all it was–a chance. Even with his exhaustive experience, battling so many realms beyond him was… well, not risky, but purely stupid. He wasn’t even sure why he was doing it; if he were a smarter person, he would use extensive experience to be invisible to the world until he was able to take it on.

… no, he knew why.

Caution affords a greater floor, but it limits the ceiling; for him to go well beyond his past life, he knew he had to challenge things far greater than himself.

He slashed twice in quick succession, once to tear open another stair in the sky and the second to decapitate a surging shadow that streamed toward him.

Becoming an Emperor would be easy–in fact, making everyone currently with him an Emperor would be child’s play. But that wouldn’t be enough.

Nowhere near enough.

To go beyond the Gates of Divinity, he had to go beyond himself, and this was the first true test.

He kept slashing for just about half a minute before he was at the eye level of the city lord.

“A neat trick,” he said, grinning. “You really are full of surprises. Though, do you truly think coming here was the best idea? If you went to assist the others, they may have lived a little while longer, affording them a greater chance of achieving repentance.”

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“Who? Them?” Long Tao smiled faintly. “Was seeing your daughter torn in half once not enough? Perhaps that’s why you stayed this far up. Or… could it be that the great city lord is hiding, recovering Qi while posturing? No, no. That wouldn’t be it.”

“Heh,” the man’s lips twitched as his smile turned into a sneer. “And your baby self came here because of that? Even if I had sapped my Qi whole, it would not have changed anything, boy. You’ve simply come to die.”

“Perhaps,” Long Tao shrugged. “But if I die to someone like you, then I never deserved to live.”