As always.
Whether something is "dark" depends on one's perspective. The Mysterious Clan, for example, believes they are the normal ones, and those trying to overthrow their rule are the darkness.
Typically, those below, seeking to overthrow those above, will create excuses, concocting pleasant-sounding titles and doing everything possible to smear those above them.
This is human nature.
The victor is king, the loser a bandit.
No one will admit to being dark or evil. "Darkness" is just a label the winners slap on the heads of the losers. If they had won, then Huang Yechu would be the darkness.
Furthermore.
So-called sacrifices are the norm in this world. Sacrifices to heaven, sacrifices to earth, sacrifices to oneself... The Mysterious Clan simply changed the objects of sacrifice to the myriad worlds.
Actually, this kind of thing isn't rare at all. You see it even in everyday life; there's no need to make it sound so high-minded.
Because sacrifice, at its core, is just harvesting. It's like cutting grass to get the crop, cutting one batch and then another grows. The weak are destined to be harvested.
Weakness is the original sin.
The weak must die.
In the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands of the upper realms, they harvest the Venerables from the Eight Regions below, using them as great medicine to nourish themselves.
The Quasi-Immortal Emperors of the Boundary Sea harvest the Immortals and Immortal Kings of the Immortal Realm, using them as great medicine to nourish themselves.
The Mysterious Clan's primordial ancestors, who are above the heavens, naturally harvest the Quasi-Immortal Emperors and Immortal Emperors to nourish themselves.
And then there's…
The upper realms treat the lower realms as a medicine field, with the Eight Regions of the lower realms being great medicine. Their actions, I ask, what difference is there between them and The Mysterious Clan?
In the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, the Immortal Realm, all were ultimately harvested by The Mysterious Clan from above the heavens. Isn't this just karmic retribution, a cycle of cause and effect?
So, what exactly is darkness?
The Mysterious Clan are not madmen, nor are they fools.
They were simply overthrown by Huang Yechu and his two companions.
Thousands of millennia later.
Perhaps even a hundred million years.
Will Huang Yechu become the new The Mysterious Clan?
Will those who come after view them as darkness?
This is unknown.
After all, their predecessors, the masters of the Three Lifetimes Copper Coffin, eventually fell ill while trying to break through to a higher realm.
He had no intention of harming the myriad worlds, but fate was so capricious. After his death, his ashes evolved into The Mysterious Clan.
It's hard to imagine what terrifying darkness might arise if Huang Yechu and his two brothers were to die of illness in the future, and their ashes were to transform.
Of course.
This was just a possibility, not a predetermined fact.
Because this world, since the birth of Shi Yi, had already embarked on a completely unknown path, and the future had long become an unfathomable entity.
But one thing was certain.
Some unknown, terrifying powerhouse had been trying to obliterate the yet-to-mature Shi Yi, leaving countless bloody handprints on The Gate of All Wonders, which had been evolved from The Book of Virtue.
"Ascend to the pinnacle of the world?"
Willow God looked at Shi Yi with surprise, not expecting him to have such determination.
"Teacher, what are you looking at? I don't like fighting, but I know that only the strong have the right to choose. I just don't want to fight my way up and then find that I'm just treading the same path as others."
Shi Yi felt hurt; did he really look down on him that much?
Someone else's path is ultimately someone else's path. Walking someone else's path, at most, you'll be on par with them, but you'll never surpass them because that path isn't one you forged yourself.
As a fan of the Primal Era Genre.
Shi Yi truly felt that this world was abnormal. Besides fighting, there was no other path to take; everyone only knew how to fight.
In the Primal Era, there were three thousand Great Daos. In this world, it seemed only the Great Dao of Killing remained; only through fighting could one comprehend the Dao.
It's certainly exciting to kill your way to the top, but when there's no one left to kill, wouldn't you be trapped in a dead end?
Isn't that insane?
Shi Yi truly felt that everyone in this world had issues, and serious ones at that.
So, their Dao Hearts were all built for fighting and killing?
And then there was the Dao Heart itself.
Shi Yi had heard about it more than once. Everyone wanted him to have an invincible Dao Heart, as if his Double-Pupiled eyes were somehow a disgrace if he wasn't invincible.
Invincible Dao Heart?
Shi Yi wanted to laugh when he first heard about this. Where was the absolute invincibility? Without failure, how could there be success? Or was it a case of being invincible all the way, only to have a major setback at the end?
Shi Yi had always disliked the idea of an invincible Dao Heart.
He was a person who judged by results.
One sentence could sum up Shi Yi's thoughts.
I can fail countless times in the process of striving, but if I only need to win once in the end result, I'll have won everything, and the victor takes all!
The ultimate goal was immortality.
What is an Immortal?
To attain the Dao and live forever, free and unfettered.
But the Immortals of this world are different.
Everything they cultivate is for the sake of killing; their minds are filled with nothing but killing, killing, killing!
Kill one, it's worth it; kill two, you profit; kill three, you're making a killing.
Is this an Immortal?
This is a demon!
Everyone is a great devil, the upper realm devours the lower realm. If there's an even higher upper realm, it will definitely devour the upper realm as well. Darkness? It's just a food chain.
Thinking of this.
Shi Yi looked at Willow God, shaking his head inwardly.
He didn't know what kind of betrayal Willow God had experienced to hide in the Eight Regions of the lower realm to heal her wounds.
But he knew that if she had chosen to remain uninvolved, sitting high above the clouds, she wouldn't have fallen to this state.
"The path you want to take… I see no future in it. This road, never before explored, are you truly prepared to walk it alone, in solitude?"
Willow God's gaze, like a burning torch, instantly pierced Shi Yi's heart, seeing his loneliness—the loneliness of one without companions.
"Alone?"
Shi Yi touched… Under Willow God's calm gaze, he reluctantly withdrew his unclean hand.
Indeed.
Still not quite right!
"If you don't take, others will. If you don't fight, others will. If you don't kill, others will. The path you tread is against the heavens, and your future is destined to be without companions."
Willow God somewhat regretted manifesting in a human form. She sensed that Shi Yi's impure thoughts towards her were growing stronger, his audacity increasing, even testing her boundaries once.
A disciple who would betray his master and destroy his ancestors!
"Teacher, you are mistaken. It's not about not contending, not about not seizing, not about not killing. It's just that there are three thousand Great Daos, and I don't want to walk only one. Fighting and killing isn't the only path."
At this moment.
Shi Yi suddenly felt enlightened. He realized that even Willow God didn't understand him, never truly understood him. She actually thought his future path was to not contend, not seize, and not kill.
Someone who doesn't contend, doesn't seize, and doesn't kill is a fool. Killing can also be a form of self-preservation. He just didn't want to cultivate for the sake of killing. He wanted to become an Immortal, not a demon.
A true Immortal seeks nothing external.
With a single thought, everything can be reversed.
And the Immortals of this world, Shi Yi discovered, were very fixated on the word "sacrifice." Sacrificing to Heaven, sacrificing to Earth, sacrificing themselves, and ultimately, they almost wanted to sacrifice the world itself.
"I was wrong?" Willow God's tone was calm and without a ripple.
Without waiting for Shi Yi to explain, she continued, "If one day, I were to fall, to become darkness itself, to become a mistake, how would you view that mistake?"
It had to be said.
A woman's focus was always unique.
Even someone as esteemed as Willow God was the same.
Shi Yi was trying to reason with her, but all she heard was that Shi Yi had just said she was wrong.
Now, she was throwing out a freebie.
A question that was practically a giveaway.
How would I view it?
I'd watch it lying down!
Shi Yi's eyes widened. He didn't speak, but his mind had already begun to imagine the scenario of Willow God's fall. Would she immediately lock her disciple in a dark room?
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