Everything has two sides

“Believe it or not!”

Shi Xiaotian was completely at ease.

“Come, brother, let’s continue drinking; don’t let her spoil our mood.”

He raised his cup, inviting Wu Yue from afar.

Having been friends for many years, how could Wu Yue not understand his intentions?

He happily clinked cups with him and drank a toast.

Seeing this, Extinction Supreme grew anxious.

Although she didn’t believe his words, the mention of a prisoner becoming a core member of the Phoenix Feather Sect firmly hooked her heart.

Consider Extinction Supreme, what kind of existence was she?

Wherever she went, she was a high-ranking figure; in any force, she was treated as a honored guest.

Yet now, she had become a Sweeping Old Woman.

How could she possibly accept such a disparity?

Now, the other party might truly have a way to help her escape her current predicament.

Even if it was just a tiny chance, she wasn’t willing to give up.

Thinking of this, the cold indifference on her face receded.

A smiling expression appeared.

She lowered her posture and said, “Please forgive us, sirs.”

“It was this old woman who was presumptuous earlier.”

“May I ask for your esteemed names?”

Shi Xiaotian looked at the person who was once high above, someone he could only look up to, now fawning over him.

A wave of secret delight surged within him.

But the other party’s attitude towards his brother earlier had made him very unhappy.

He immediately scoffed, “For a small fry like me, my name would surely defile your ears, so I won’t say it.”

Extinction Supreme was secretly annoyed.

She had already lowered her posture, yet the other party still spoke mockingly.

Did he really think she had no temper?

If she were in her peak, she would have long since slapped them both to death.

But now?

Upon recalling her predicament, Extinction Supreme, despite her many grievances and unwillingness, could not show them.

She immediately put on a smiling face and continued, “You jest, sir.”

“This old woman is merely a condemned person; all past glories are but fleeting clouds.”

“From now on, I will have to trouble you two sirs to take care of me.”

Shi Xiaotian wanted to mock her a few more times.

But Wu Yue, who was beside him, spoke up, “Brother Shi, let it go.”

“She’s just a pitiful person; why make it harder for her?”

The phrase “pitiful person” almost made Extinction Supreme break down.

She was down on her luck!

She had fallen from the clouds into the abyss.

But a person she considered an ant was now pitying her in return.

And she truly needed that pity.

This was truly heartbreaking!

For a moment, a myriad of thoughts surged into her mind.

Extinction Supreme’s feelings were difficult to describe.

Wu Yue glanced at her indifferently.

He instructed.

“Earlier, the two of us were just like you, ignorant and reckless, offending the current master of the Phoenix Feather Sect.”

“But later, we realized our mistakes.”

“We sincerely repented.”

“It was also a stroke of destiny.”

“Thanks to the Peak Master’s acceptance.”

“He took us in as Outer Sect Disciples.”

“Now, we are even considered highly by our Master.”

“If you can sincerely repent and let Master see your sincerity, I believe that one day, you will surely escape this sea of suffering.”

“Perhaps you might even gain a great destiny and fortune.”

Extinction Supreme was an old fossil who had lived for tens of thousands of years; she could distinguish between insincerity and genuine feeling.

What the other party said was absolutely from the heart.

What startled her was that despite their low cultivation, these two were actually disciples of the Phoenix Feather Sect’s master.

Although they were only Outer Sect Disciples, that was still astonishing enough.

This was also because she had not yet understood the Phoenix Feather Sect’s disciple recruitment system.

Otherwise, she would have been even more surprised.

After all, from top to bottom, there were only two Outer Sect Disciples belonging to Zhong Qing.

And precisely because of this unique status, their standing, in some sense, was even higher than that of the more than two million registered disciples.

Wu Yue saw her fall into thought.

He drained the wine in his hand and said, “I’ve said all I can. You should take care of yourself!”

“The next round of pill refinement on my Pill Refinement Peak is about to begin. I must excuse myself.”

As he spoke, he gestured to Shi Xiaotian, exited the pavilion, and once again dedicated himself to the great task of pill refinement.

Extinction Supreme watched the receding figures of the two and fell into deep thought.

She suddenly realized.

She had been too narrow-minded before.

She thought about everything she had seen and heard since arriving at the Phoenix Feather Sect.

This sect, in her eyes, was undoubtedly mysterious and special.

Its mysteriousness lay in the fact that the entire sect’s strength was very powerful, so powerful that every time she recalled it, she felt a sense of trepidation.

Its specialness was that the disciples within this sect got along too harmoniously.

In many sects, disciples would turn against each other for resources and benefits, masters and disciples would scheme against each other, and factions would be rampant within the sect.

But in the Phoenix Feather Sect, she saw none of this.

To be able to forge a sect into such a unified entity, the charisma of its master was evident.

Now!

In a sense, she had already betrayed the Asking Heart Sect.

With the Asking Heart Sect’s strength, dealing with her would be effortless.

Since there was no turning back.

Why couldn’t she truly join and integrate into the Phoenix Feather Sect?

If she could completely integrate into the Phoenix Feather Sect, it might not be much worse than the Asking Heart Sect, and it certainly wouldn’t be a bad thing.

Wasn’t she half-forced to join the Asking Heart Sect midway back then?

At this moment, her heart seemed to have found a way out.

The sense of grievance and unwillingness she had originally felt seemed to have lessened considerably.

And it was precisely this change in her state of mind that subtly caused the bottleneck in her Supreme Realm Eighth Heaven cultivation to show signs of loosening.

…

When Burning Fire Child saw Extinction Supreme again, he was completely stunned.

“Extinction, your cultivation bottleneck has loosened!”

His expression was filled with excitement.

“Quick, try it quickly, can you break through to the Supreme Realm Ninth Heaven?”

“If you can use the power of the breakthrough to break the seal, we will have hope of escaping!”

Extinction Supreme shook her head.

“Child of Ultimate Bliss, cultivation is inherently a struggle to advance through the sea of suffering.”

“I’ve thought about it carefully; everything has two sides. This experience, for us, is by no means a tribulation; perhaps it’s a unique opportunity.”

“Why do you cling to the past and only think of escaping? Why not calm your mind, experience the present, and enjoy the present? Perhaps you will have unexpected gains.”

Hearing this!

Child of Ultimate Bliss was shocked.

“Do you even hear what you’re saying?”

He rubbed his eyes.

He looked at his old friend, with whom he had been acquainted for tens of thousands of years, with an incredulous expression.

Now, both of them were imprisoned.

His friend wasn’t thinking of escaping with him.

Instead, she was telling him to experience and enjoy the present!

Experience the joy of being a Burning Fire Child?

Enjoy the taste of being smoked and roasted by fire?

“You’re not right!”

“You’re very not right.”

Child of Ultimate Bliss shook his head.

If he couldn’t feel the familiar fluctuations emanating from the depths of her soul.

For a moment.

He would have suspected that his old friend had been possessed.

But he couldn’t understand why.

Why, just a short while ago, two people who were so close, in just a few days, had undergone such a tremendous change.

Extinction Supreme had changed so much that he couldn’t understand her, let alone see through her.

This change made Child of Ultimate Bliss a little nervous.

Seeing this, Extinction shook her head.

“Child of Ultimate Bliss, I know you have many questions and much confusion in your heart.”

“That’s because your heart is too restless, and your temper is too agitated.”

“You just need to calm your mind and consider problems from a different perspective or way of thinking, and you will discover different scenery and colors.”

“I have decided to officially join the Phoenix Feather Sect.”

“To be a Sweeping Old Woman in the Phoenix Feather Sect.”

“As for you, just be a Burning Fire Child in peace!”

“I won’t let you run, and you shouldn’t think of running.”

These words, in Child of Ultimate Bliss’s ears, were like a bolt from the blue, instantly leaving him stunned in place.

How did he feel that his old friend had gone mentally unstable from sweeping the floor?

His eyes were blank, and he silently questioned the heavens!

Why was she abnormal, but he was the one suffering?

The hope of escaping the Phoenix Feather Sect was already slim.

If they cooperated, there might still be a glimmer of a chance.

But with her saying that, there was truly no hope left at all.

For a moment, Child of Ultimate Bliss only felt that the future was utterly dark and hopeless.