Chapter 623: Choice

Xu Fu dispersed the illusion.

"Lady Xu said it before, you are famous all over the world."

"Since that’s the case, Master Monk couldn't possibly not pay attention to you."

"I was suppressed, he wouldn't come to find me. But he would communicate with Lady Xu. All this information about the people around you... naturally, it was information he collected."

"Many times, he was right beside you."

"It’s just that you didn't discover it."

Li Miao raised his head.

"Then why didn't he just kill me?"

Xu Fu said coldly.

"Kill you?"

"No, no, no... killing you is too much trouble."

Li Miao frowned.

"Trouble?"

"Why, isn't it trouble to be killed by me when I charge to your face?"

Xu Fu closed his eyes slightly, and then his words seemed to carry some sighs.

"Perhaps trouble."

"But it’s always much more trouble than cleaning up the world yourself, and much more trouble than waiting for a thousand years."

"Li Miao, you have already unified the six paths. Have you felt... an instinct, an instinct to want to achieve the state above Heaven-Man, to want to cause how much influence on this world?"

He said slowly.

"The thicker the foundation, the more difficult it is to step into the state above Heaven-Man."

"Just like you, like Zhang Zhang Sanfeng, like... that person."

"For you to achieve the state above Heaven-Man, it’s not just about killing an emperor, slaughtering a city, or destroying a Japan... Heaven and Earth are not benevolent, treating all things as straw dogs! For you to achieve the state above Heaven-Man, you must use the overturning of heaven and earth and the severance of inheritance as a sacrifice!"

"Before you appeared, the Great Ming was already riddled with holes. Even if no one moved it, it would collapse in fifty years. But... you and Zhu Zai saved it."

"With Mount Wudang and Shaolin cooperating with you to bring the Wu Lin to heel, the Embroidered Uniform Guard hunting down lawbreakers across the realm, and the old imperial clan ministers emerging from retirement to stabilize the court, the civil official clique that was once too powerful to control has been mostly wiped out by you... The Canal Gang and Beggar Sect have secured the channels for river and land transport, and the Five Great Sword Sects act like five nails pinning down the turbulent Wu Lin. If anyone refuses to submit, you simply go and pay them a visit."

"Also... perhaps others don't know."

"You have been trying to reform the Miao Border Gu techniques and the Japanese cultivation methods. You want to create a set of cultivation methods that people with incomplete bones can practice to improve their bones and pass them down from generation to generation... and it has already been implemented on a small scale within the Embroidered Uniform Guard."

"Profound Observation cultivation methods are spreading throughout the Ordinary Jianghu, and the grand occasion of Heaven-Men everywhere will soon reappear."

"I think in twenty years... the Great Ming will become something else, and it will be more prosperous than all previous dynasties."

Xu Fu paused suddenly.

"And this is exactly what that person wants."

"Destroying a dynasty that was already supposed to collapse is not enough for him to achieve the state above Heaven-Man... but destroying a dynasty that is about to be unprecedentedly prosperous should be enough."

"He originally wanted to spend a thousand years, destroy several dynasties, and plan slowly... but your appearance made him change his mind."

"You are lucky."

"If your first battle of fame wasn't the result of controlling the imperial court, he would have killed you without hesitation; if Zhu Zai hadn't tied you to the chariot of saving the Great Ming, he would have killed you too."

"But you are also unfortunate."

"You were born too late. You should have been a proud talent born in the same generation as him and competing with him, but you came a thousand years late, and can only become the fruit he deliberately cultivated along with me."

After Xu Fu finished speaking, he finally calmed down again.

He observed Li Miao calmly.