Many times in life, it can be difficult to give up on something just because it’s hard. That refusal to give up could even be called obsession. That was especially true of matters of life or death. That of others. That of oneself. Obsession with life or death. The inability to let it go. In such instances, there is always hope.

However… there are many times in which there is no hope. Only despair. Sadly, in many instances, despair becomes the main theme. The world is a cold place. Heaven and earth are indifferent.

For example, just as the flame of his life force flickered within the statue of Grand Emperor Swordsage, the statue started crumbling. It was like a lamp that had run out of oil. There just wasn’t a way to light it. It didn’t matter that the Devilbird holy land had been sacrificed. It didn’t matter that the manywonders smolderlife dao fruit had been awoken. Those things changed nothing.

And yet, the empress’ pure obsession could be heard in the words echoing in heaven and earth, turning into a reverberation of defiance like that cry of a thousand mountains. The empress was a god. But gods… were clearly not omnipotent. She even bit her tongue, causing god blood to spray out and soak her body. God blood became life force. An incantation gesture ignited it, and it poured into the statue of the Grand Emperor.

Xu Qing didn’t hesitate for an instant to do the same. He sent out his own life force, contained in his blood. He used his strength, his dao, and everything about himself to help the Grand Emperor.