“Master…” Lin Xintong slightly turned her head over to look at Su Jie. There seemed to be a thousand words in her watery eyes, “You think so too?”
Su Jie sighed, “Warriors practice martial arts to compete with the Heavens, but… looking at the past hundred million years of the Tian Yuan world, how many of them have the right to say that they have defeated the Heavens?”
“Competing with the Heavens is not as simple as just shouting out some brave words, one has to first experience long years of humiliation and stress to slowly sharpen oneself, slowly pushing oneself to an extreme, eventually climbing up to the peak of martial arts. Only then can a person really say that ‘Humans can Defeat the Heavens’. A sharp sword is formed from endless sharpening. No one can defeat the Heavens the moment they were born…”
Su Jie’s tone was sincere, and it contained the insight he had gained from his 30,000 years of experience.
The currently slick and unreliable Su Jie’s talent in martial arts and the Desolate Heaven technique far exceeded that of his peers when he was young. He too had been a high-spirited and arrogant proud son of Heaven once.
Slowly, through his experiences in martial arts and life, Su Jie had slowly changed into a character in the game of life.
Lin Xintong took a deep breath of air as she smiled wrily.
Two years ago, when she first returned to her family, she had heard of the Shen Tu family clan trying to form a marriage alliance with the Lin family by having her marry Shen Tu Nantian. Her first reaction was that it was preposterous. Lin Xintong believed that, with the relationship between the Lin family and the Shen Tu family clan, and her own understanding of Shen Tu Nantian, this was something that was impossible.
And back then, there were several Elders in the Lin family who stood by Lin Xintong’s side.
Now, after two years, there was no one standing on her side anymore.
Even the Matriarch who had loved her so much, and Su Jie who had treated her as his own daughter, had begun to support the marriage.
However, the Matriarch and Su Jie had not bowed down to the Shen Tu family clan, but they had succumbed to fate. They yielded to to the powers of Nature!
When warriors succumbed to their enemy, it was shameful.
When warriors succumbed to the Heavens, it was very normal.
As Su Jie said, looking back at the Tian Yuan world’s past hundred million years, how many would dare say that they had defeated the Heavens?
Lin Xintong shook her head deep down before she stood up. She knew that there was no one who supported her at this moment.
As she was about to open her mouth and say something, a faint voice sounded out from the corner of the venue.
This sound was familiar to her, yet different from her memory.
“Wait! I have something to say.”
Lin Xintong was shocked as she turned her head over. She saw that a hundred feet away, a youth dressed in green had stood up from his seat.
He was wearing a cold-looking silver mask. There were two grim-looking lines in the color of blood where the eyes should be. However, at this moment, Lin Xintong could feel infinite warmth from the grim and cold mask.
Aware of Lin Xintong’s gaze, Yi Yun nodded solemnly.
This tiny action was enough for Lin Xintong to understand that Yi Yun wanted to say something to support her.
This made Lin Xintong slightly dazed. At the final moment, when she was the most helpless, with no one supporting her, including Su Jie and the Matriarch, this youth stood up and spoke with a different voice.
Even if Lin Xintong knew that this youth could not do anything, nor could he change anything, but him standing up and sounding out was enough for Lin Xintong.
This voice seemed to be a tiny candlelight in a cold, dark winter night.
It could not provide much warmth or light, nor could it bring the spring or dawn, but… it brought Hope.
Lin Xintong looked at Yi Yun and piercing through the mask, saw Yi Yun’s eyes. She could see her own reflection in his dark pupils.
She remembered what Yi Yun had said to her on the night of the victory party.
She had never known that Yi Yun swore to find the method to join up her terminated meridians that night in the Desolate Human Valley two years ago.
Even though the chances of him succeeding were extremely slim, he had still worked hard for it. And at this moment, in front of the Shen Tu family clan and the Lin family’s pressure, he had sounded out with a difference voice with his tiny capacity.
This touched Lin Xintong.
“Thank you, but… there is no need.”
Lin Xintong shook her head and transmitted her voice to Yi Yun.
She knew that under these circumstances, Yi Yun could not change a thing.
Furthermore, if he said anything inappropriate, he would suffer the wrath of others.
After all, with a matter that was decided by the two large family clans, against the pressure from all the Elders present, anything Yi Yun said