Heavenly Dao Engine
Chapter 994 - 994 0592 Unreliable Emperor_3

Chapter 994: Chapter 0592: Unreliable Emperor_3 Chapter 994: Chapter 0592: Unreliable Emperor_3 Emperor Jianwu was terrified. At first, he tried to free his Divine Sense, but after several attempts, he realized it was hopeless and quickly abandoned this irrational thought. Clenching his teeth in secret, he endured the agonizing pain and severed the part of the Divine Sense that extended outside his body in one fell swoop, just as one makes a quick decision to amputate an arm, discarding it without a second thought.

The severance of the Divine Sense was indescribably painful. Given a choice, Emperor Jianwu would never have chosen to do this, but what else could he do at this moment? Allow Qi Tian to gain control over his Divine Sense?

After severing his Divine Sense, Emperor Jianwu didn’t dare let it linger outside his body any longer. Like a startled rabbit, it quickly retracted into his body and shrank down.

The portion of the Divine Sense that Emperor Jianwu had discarded instantly became masterless, and Qi Tian straightforwardly collected it, sending it to the storage chamber of the Heavenly Dao Engine for temporary storage. He didn’t immediately turn it into fuel, thinking it might have some other use later on.

Qi Tian looked at Emperor Jianwu and said, “Prince, I always said you emperors are unreliable, and indeed you’ve proven me right. If I hadn’t reacted quickly, I might have fallen victim to your vicious plot. How can you expect me to trust you after this? Just a moment ago you promised me so many conditions, but they were just expediencies, weren’t they? Given the chance, you would destroy me without hesitation, offering me no opportunity to explain. No wonder Su Jinghan said ‘when the rabbit is dead, the dog is boiled; when the birds are gone, the bow is set aside.’ He was absolutely right.”

Emperor Jianwu did indeed think this way, but had he been in better spirits, he would have argued his case. However, with a large part of his Divine Sense severed and his soul greatly wounded, he simply had no energy to argue with Qi Tian. At this point, he had no desire to communicate with Qi Tian in any way, having completely turned against him, even dispensing with perfunctory civilities.

Qi Tian continued, “Prince, as the saying goes, ‘You take the first step, I’ll take it a step further.’ You must admit, between the two of us, I have always been reactive, never taking any initiative. Let me spell it out for you. First, you summoned me to your Jianwu Palace. As soon as we met, without doing a thing, you tried to take my dwelling, exterminate my soul, and plunder my body, never even asking my opinion, just dictating orders. Had it not been for Su Jinghan’s timely intervention, I might already have suffered at your hands. That was the first time. Now let’s talk about the second time, just now, when we were supposedly negotiating terms, and you once again struck first, with your Divine Sense, attempting to annihilate me. It seems emperors like you enjoy acting preemptively. Am I, a subject, just someone you can kill, curse, or punish on a whim, without warning? There’s a common saying, ‘A ruler views his subjects as hands and feet, the subjects view the ruler as their stomach and heart; but if the ruler regards his subjects as worthless, the subjects see the ruler as an enemy.’ Time and again, you’ve treated me this way, and my heart is thoroughly wounded. I might have struggled to make a decision, but now my resolve must harden. Prince, as your subject, I can only apologize for failing you.”