Chapter 0169: Carnage on the Bipo Mountain Range
Chapter 0169: Carnage on the Bipo Mountain Range
The 10,000 Swords Formation shook dangerously.
Outside the 10,000 Swords Formation, the demons howled and the dao sect disciples hooted. The earth churned, and the demons marked the ground with their claws.
Outside the 10,000 Swords Formation, Night Wishes for Snow was completely paralyzed by his predicament.
There were good and evil people amongst the 1,000 disciples. Some were hurling malicious insults, others were frightened half to death. They awaited Jiang Xie's rescue, for their freedom to enter this battle.
"Master, guide me!" Night Wishes for Snow knelt towards Feng Xueya. He could not make a decision.
These thousand Heavenly Sword Sect disciples were supposed to fight, not guard their prisoners. Once they lost control of these Zhongyuan Dao Sect disciples, they would only become trouble.
They might even kill more people.
Feng Xueya's back was turned to Night Wishes for Snow, fully concentrating on repelling their opponents with the 10,000 Swords Formation.
"Snow, are you plagued by the dilemma of good and evil? Are you unable to see your path?"
"Master, I am."
Night Wishes for Snow lifted his head. Feng Xueya spoke to him, his back still turned.
"This is a fight of the Immortal Dao. In war, there are only victors and losers. There is no good or evil. Their bodies and minds belong to the Zhongyuan Dao Sect, and they are our enemies. Mercy to your enemies is cruelty to your brethren.
"We martial cultivators are benevolent to the people. We are benevolent to our own. But we cannot be benevolent to our enemies. Even if the enemy is innocent. Even if the enemy is helpless. Wars of the Immortal Dao are cruel. There is no dao to speak of here, only victory or defeat.
"We sword cultivators need a firm heart. Know your path of dao. Pursue the Immortal Dao, and deliver all living creatures from suffering.
"War is war. Evil belongs to those who began the war. The rules of this world are created by the strong that survive. So Jiang Xie is not wrong. If we are weaker than they are, and our Bipo Mountain Range is taken, then we are wrong. The weak ones are the wrong ones.
"So kill! Let the blood flow, slaughter our enemies!"
This was Feng Xueya's final conclusion.
Night Wishes for Snow saw the light now. Although this logic was cruel, the world was no perfect place.
Mercy to one's enemies was cruelty to one's allies.
This was a battle for survival. This was strategy, it had nothing to do with good or evil.
"KILL!"
At Night Wishes for Snow's command, a thousand Zhongyuan Dao Sect disciples’ heads hit the floor.
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Wu Yu turned back.
"Killed?"
He was a little shaken.
But he did not waver.
"Jiang Xie abandoned them, but their hearts were still with the Zhongyuan Dao Sect. This is their only fate." Wu Yu took a deep breath. He had just escaped from the Ninth Spirit, and knew how cruel the path of Immortal Dao could be. It was not just cultivation, but the struggles between people, between nations, invading each other - all of this was for one's own people to live a better life. On the battlefield, no one cared if you were a good person.
Struggle was the chief concern of all living things.
"Cultivation is plunder. The strong are just."
Recalling this phrase, Wu Yu's revelation deepened. If he were strong enough, far above Feng Xueya and Jiang Xie, then he could scare Jiang Xie away from this place and bring peace and justice.
But such strength was won through plunder. Even if one did not steal it from others, one would take it from nature, from the spiritual qi of the earth.
In this chaotic world of Immortal Dao, if one wanted stability, peace, and to better oneself, then one had to hold true to one's own dao and one's own purpose.
Today, Feng Xueya had killed the Zhongyuan Dao Sect disciples and opened the war. This was in his nature. Although it was cruel, it was a huge loss to the Zhongyuan Dao Sect.