"We old fellows like us have our own choices as well. How could we be the ones sewing wedding robes for others? Only by going all out, by sparing no means, by killing on the battlefield until every inch of bone is shattered—only that is worthy of matching the end of an era."
"If I do not defeat Li Guanyi, how can I unify the world?"
"If Li Guanyi does not kill me, how can he open the age of Taiping?"
"The tide of the world has surged to this point; there is not the slightest room left to turn back. In the end, it can only be such an ending."
Jiang Wanxiang looked at Jiang Su before him, the aging emperor saying, "Grandmaster, you actually speak of death, you actually speak of defeat. Has Li Guanyi placed such pressure upon the military god who was invincible wherever he went?"
Jiang Su said, "For a battle general in the army, to think first of defeat before victory—that is only the norm."
Jiang Wanxiang said, "But in every great war of the past, you never once spoke of defeat."
