"I take back what I said earlier."
"Which one?"
"That Ji Tianqi is a law-abiding good person."
"..."
The dialogue between Shen Shili and Yu Zhilang did not affect Ji Tianqi's soliloquy; he was still continuing his threats to the Fire Qilin.
"I don't want to be the Emperor. What's so good about being the Emperor, anyway? Three thousand beauties in the harem would exhaust anyone to death."
"It's just that my power has been increasing too quickly, and it's all because of fortuitous encounters, so I'm worried I might be prone to deviation. I urgently need the suppression of the Dragon Vein."
"Moreover, I've heard that the Dragon Vein is beneficial to cultivation, able to produce twice the result with half the effort. I want to try to break through to the Innate Realm."
"If you prevent me from getting the Dragon Vein, you're preventing me from breaking through to the Innate Realm; you want me to fall into deviation."