"Ever since the Ancient Era, you've been trying to wipe me out. Time and time again. How many times exactly? I really can't remember anymore. If it wasn't this judgment, it was that one. Exorcisms, purifications, adjudications... you've pretty much used every method available. And yet, up to this very moment, you still haven't managed to wipe me out.
"Repeated probing, repeated schemes. How many times have you probed? How many schemes have you laid? To be honest, I actually feel quite sorry for you all. I really do!
I'm absolutely not saying this sarcastically!
These are words straight from the heart.
"After all, there's no deep-seated hatred between us. No grievance of a stolen wife, no vendetta of a murdered father. You want to wipe me out simply to protect the Great Dao, or to scheme for the position of True Lord of Original Sin. That's all.
"I can understand that. Precisely because I can understand it, that's why I think you're all rather pitiful. Actually...
It's not just you I pity. I pity myself even more.
"The greatest dream of my life is to sleep until I wake naturally, drink until I'm drunk, watch some excitement, and seduce a girl or two—that's the greatest joy in my life.
"What True Lord of Original Sin, what Daoless Age... I truly have no interest whatsoever.
"Yet, things go against my wishes. Fate plays tricks on people. I, for some inexplicable reason, in a complete muddle, ended up becoming that damned greatest Original Sin Anomaly. To the point where my father doesn't cherish me, my mother doesn't love me, heaven and earth won't tolerate me. The Great Dao wants me dead, and Original Sin wants me dead too. Search your consciences and tell me, am I not pitiful?
Who have I offended?
Did I dig up the ancestral graves of the Great Dao?
Or did I flirt with the wife of Original Sin?
"If I had really dug up the ancestral graves of the Great Dao or flirted with the wife of Original Sin, that would at least be something. The key point is, I haven't!
"They all say I've killed countless people, even burned the Nine Heavens. Let's speak with a clear conscience: Isn't it because you tried to wipe me out again and again that I fought back?
Surely you don't expect me to just stand there and let you kill me when you come for me time after time?
Since time immemorial, there's never been such a principle.
"Some say I had no choice about being an Original Sin Anomaly. But couldn't I at least choose whether or not to fuse with the True Blood of Original Sin?
Speaking of this makes me even angrier. Weren't a lot of you present back when I fused with the True Blood of Original Sin in the Mortal World?
Didn't I not want to fuse with it? Didn't I even ask you to destroy that drop of True Blood of Original Sin? But in the end, you couldn't destroy it. Left with no other choice, I had to fuse with it. It wasn't that I wanted to fuse with it; that thing directly fused with me. I didn't even get a chance to resist.
"I believe all the Original Sin Anomalies present here should be able to understand this point.
"After all this talk, I don't have any other meaning. I just want everyone to understand one thing: we are all chess pieces. Either chess pieces of the Great Dao, or chess pieces of Original Sin, or chess pieces of Fate. In any case, we're all chess pieces. That's an inescapable fact.
"And what's more, I am the most pitiful, the most innocent chess piece of them all. And on this point, no one better fucking argue with me!"
Beside him.
Da Xing the Mad Monk furrowed his brows, staring at Gu Qingfeng with a very complicated look in his eyes.
At the beginning, he thought Gu Qingfeng was just looking for some amusement.
Later, when Gu Qingfeng said so many heartfelt words, he gradually felt it wasn't as simple as just looking for amusement.
When Gu Qingfeng said he pitied those Great Dao Patriarchs, he again thought Gu Qingfeng was just looking for amusement.
However, when Da Xing the Mad Monk heard Gu Qingfeng say that he himself was the most pitiful chess piece, only then did Da Xing realize that Gu Qingfeng really wasn't looking for amusement, nor was he deliberately provoking those Patriarchs with sarcastic remarks. He was genuinely speaking from the heart, voicing some heartfelt sentiments.
"I don't know if you're tired after all these years of struggle, but I, for one, am truly exhausted. Both body and mind are weary. I don't want to struggle anymore. I just hope to end this matter as soon as possible."
Hearing this, Da Xing the Mad Monk finally understood why Gu Qingfeng had been constantly urging everyone to attack him.
The reason was simple.
Just as he said, after struggling for so many years, he was truly tired and just wanted to settle this matter as quickly as possible.
If suicide could settle it, Gu Qingfeng might have committed suicide. But his character wouldn't allow him to take his own life, nor would it allow him to die for nothing, because there were still many things he didn't understand. Suicide wouldn't get past his own principles, and it would be a disservice to his own life.
Now, he only hoped that all the Great Dao Patriarchs above and below, all the Original Sin Patriarchs, all the Destined Calamity Fates, and all the Original Sin Anomalies would come to kill him. He would fight with all his might, risking his life. If he died, then so be it. It would be over, and he would accept his fate. It would at least be an account for his life, even if that account was perfunctory, even if it was him deliberately courting death. He would accept it.
"Alright, I've said what needed to be said, and I've even said what didn't need to be said. As long as you're not an idiot, you should all more or less understand my meaning, right?
If you don't understand, I can put it more bluntly: either you wipe me out completely, or I slaughter all of you. Let's not mess around anymore. It's really quite pointless.
"Well then, esteemed gentlemen, do you still not plan to make a move?"
Gu Qingfeng asked casually, then looked up at the Void.
To his disappointment, he still only saw winds rising and clouds surging, but no one made a move.
Beside him, Da Xing the Mad Monk kept his eyes fixed tightly on Gu Qingfeng. He had a bad feeling in his heart, a feeling that Gu Qingfeng's patience was draining away bit by bit. The impression he got was that if those Patriarchs still didn't make a move, then Gu Qingfeng would start a massacre.
Surely not?
Da Xing the Mad Monk hoped his feeling was wrong.
Just then, the Void churned incessantly. Some Patriarchs, perhaps feeling the tide had turned, or perhaps sensing Gu Qingfeng's impatience, began to withdraw one after another.
"Without my fucking nod, no one even thinks about leaving!
Get the hell back here, all of you!"
Gu Qingfeng suddenly roared. Like a thunderclap from a clear sky, the roar shook thepermeating the heavens Original Sin until it dissipated into nothingness. *Boom! Boom! Boom!*
It also shook the Void, causing it to explode in succession, blasting open one black hole after another.
This scene happened far too suddenly, far too abruptly.
So sudden it was completely without warning, so abrupt it was utterly silent.
No one had expected Gu Qingfeng, who just moments ago had been casually speaking heartfelt words, to suddenly erupt in anger.
Even more unexpected was that Gu Qingfeng's single roar not only shook thepermeating the heavens Original Sin into complete dissipation, but also caused this Li Palace Void to explode in succession.
One must remember that earlier, Xuan Yuan Hao, hailed as one of the Nine Holy Sons, had to transform into a Sacred Great Sun just to suppress thepermeating the heavens Original Sin. Yet now, Gu Qingfeng's single roar had caused it to completely collapse and scatter.
One must also remember that this Void was not the Great Wilderness Void, but a Void of a thousand changes and ten thousand transformations, containing infinite mysteries. Earlier, when Xuan Yuan Hao drew the Sacred Judgment Bow and shot a Great Sun Judgment Arrow, it could only pierce through the Li Palace Void. Yet now, Gu Qingfeng's single roar shook the Li Palace Void until it exploded in succession, blasting open black holes like abysses.