Guo Chunfeng was greatly moved. He stared at Li Yao carefully for a long time and finally took a long breath in relief. He smiled and said, "I understand it now. Young brother, it seems that the belief that you have condensed is truly remarkable. Alright. We've been dawdling here for a long time. They must be anxious. Let's go back now! "
Brushing off the dust on his body, Guo Chunfeng jumped to his feet. He seemed to have been reborn into a different person. He could not have been more relaxed from inside to outside.
Although he was still sloppy, he did look like a handsome man who did not care about his appearance. One could not help but imagine what a handsome and elegant middle-aged man he would be after he cleaned himself up.
The two of them crawled back into the cave and filled two buckets of spring water. Talking and laughing, they turned around and left.
"Young brother, in fact, I have a question that has been bothering me for a long time, too. I don't know if it's appropriate to ask."
Guo Chunfeng hesitated for a moment and smiled. "Don't misunderstand me. I mean no harm, just like you. I'm just curious. It's an occupational disease. You know it."
"Just ask, Brother Guo," Li Yao said. "I'll just keep it to myself."
Guo Chunfeng smiled and said leisurely, "Everybody knows that you 'executed the Blood Devil' in front of almost a thousand representatives, leaders, and experts in the parliament building of the Federation. It was just an act to clear your suspicion. In fact, the so-called Blood Devil was completely executed on your way back to the Heaven's Origin Sector and the Blood Demon Sector. You were never controlled by the Blood Devil from the beginning to the end.
"Yes. That's what everybody thinks. However, there is no way to prove it, and it is not easy to point it out. So, it can only end in vagueness.
"However, I have a different opinion.
"I have a feeling that you didn't kill the 'Blood Devil' at all. That thing is still in your body and has become a part of your soul, right?"
"Hehe. If you feel that it is not easy to answer, just keep it to yourself. After all, as long as you do not admit it, nobody can accuse you of being the Blood Devil. Just like if I do not admit it, nobody can accuse me of being Abyss, either! "
Li Yao was slightly dazed. He scratched his head, only to discover that the situation seemed to have reversed a moment ago.
His and Guo Chunfeng's roles were switched.
The mental devil crawled out of his brain and shrieked, "Wow. We've been discovered. Kill him now!"
At this moment, not only had the mental devil not been executed into smithereens, it was even fairer and fatter than before. Spiritual light was vaguely dancing around its body, making it look more than 'transcendent'. However, the evilness flashing in its bloody eyes now and then revealed its dark nature.
It was obvious that, as Li Yao's level improved, the mental devil, which was part of his soul, had also improved!
With a telepathic thought, Li Yao triggered a bolt of lightning in his brain, electrifying the mental devil so much that it shrieked. "How disloyal of you! I helped you so much in the Federation Parliament Building and cooperated with you to put on a good show! Is this how you treat your good brothers who fought side by side with you?! "
"Good show my ass. That was the most lousy show!"
Li Yao's brainstorm congregated into a giant foot and kicked the guy back into the depths of his brain. "Get lost. Don't steal my show. You can climb up when I call for you!"
Calming himself down, Li Yao continued walking forward. Deep in thought, he said, "Brother Guo, did you know? When I was hunted by the Secret Sword Bureau, I had been considering two questions. Firstly, how could I prove that I was not possessed by the Blood Devil? Also, how was I different from 'Blood Devil Yan Xibei' years ago? It must be noted that I executed 'Blood Devil Yan Xibei' years ago in person! Then, isn't it only natural that the Secret Sword Bureau or other Cultivators want to execute me, the Blood Devil? "
"Huh. Then?"
Guo Chunfeng was deep in thought, too. After he put himself in Li Yao's shoes, he realized that the two questions were indeed tricky.
"I couldn't figure out the two questions at all. In the darkest moments, I even thought of the word 'retribution'! Before his death, Blood Devil Yan Xibei said that he was not possessed by the Blood Devil at all and that I would regret killing him just like that! Could it be that this sentence was true? Was it my retribution for killing him? "
Li Yao smashed his fists hard. "But in the end, I finally figured it out!
"The first question is unsolvable at all! Why should I prove that I was not possessed by the Blood Devil? It should have been the people who caught me who proved that I was possessed by the Blood Devil!
"Otherwise, wouldn't the situation in the parliament building of the Federation be like what happened in the parliament building, where a thousand big shots might be possessed by the Blood Devil, but they could not prove themselves innocent and could only leave the case as it was in the end?
"It's like asking an ordinary citizen to prove that he did not kill anyone on a certain night three years ago! Who can remember what happened three years ago? You can't prove it at all unless it is a special circumstance! If the police and the judges deal with cases in such a way, wouldn't our society be in a mess? "
Guo Chunfeng pondered for a moment and said, "Are you talking about the presumption of guilt and the presumption of innocence?"
"Exactly."
Li Yao nodded and said, "I don't think it's necessary for me to prove that I was not possessed by the Blood Devil. If anybody says that I was possessed by the Blood Devil, please provide irrefutable proof. You can't convict me based on a video that I left a year ago, can you?"
"Fair enough!"
Thinking carefully, Guo Chunfeng nodded slowly.
"As for the second question, it's even clearer."
Li Yao said solemnly, "Even if I was indeed possessed by the Blood Devil, 'Blood Devil Li Yao' and 'Blood Devil Yan Xibei' are completely different!
"Why did I kill Yan Xibei on Iron Plateau years ago? Was it because he was possessed by the Blood Stripe Virus and turned into the Blood Devil? "
"It wasn't!"
"I killed him because he joined the Temple of Immortals, a cult organization. He killed the chief of the Burning Sun Tribe, one of the six tribes of Iron Plateau. He also kidnapped countless college students of the Flying Star Sector, hoping to raise a civil war between Iron Plateau and the Flying Star Sector!
"In the process, he killed hundreds of innocent people. If a war broke out, the blood of billions of innocent people would have been shed for nothing!
"It was because he had done those bad things, and I had to stop him from doing more bad things that I killed him. It had nothing to do with whether or not he was the Blood Devil!
"Let's assume that even if the Blood Stripe Virus didn't exist, even if Yan Xibei was still Yan Xibei and a pure qi-trainer, like Lu Zui, who planned the whole thing with his own free will and killed so many people. Would I not have killed him?
"Of course not. I would've killed him all the same, regardless of whether he was a qi-trainer, a Cultivator, an Immortal Cultivator, or a Blood Devil!
"Let's assume that Yan Xibei was truly possessed by the Blood Stripe Virus and turned into the Blood Devil, but he didn't do anything bad. He was a kind Blood Devil, a righteous Blood Devil, a Blood Devil who would help grannies cross the road."
The mental devil popped up again. "Just like me?"
"Get lost!"
Li Yao blew the mental devil away again and said to Guo Chunfeng, "Then, what reasons do we have to kill him?
"If he is truly law-abiding, dutiful, and indifferent to the world, even if he has been crafting the 'apocalyptic body' in secret and turning himself into a monster that is neither human nor insect, I believe that it is still his personal hobby. Why would I kill him if I had nothing better to do? The best I could've done was persuade him to see a psychiatrist!
"The conclusion is that I killed Yan Xibei not because of his' identity ', not because he was a' Blood Devil 'or a' bad guy ', but because of the' bad things' that he had done. This is the principle of 'focusing on the thing but not the person'.
"Then, even if I was truly possessed by the Blood Devil and turned into 'Blood Devil Li Yao', which law did I break, just like you, Abyss? What right did other people have to kill me?
"Yes. I was possessed by the Blood Devil. I liked it. I was happy. What's wrong with that? I didn't piss anyone off. I didn't do anything bad. I just kept a Blood Devil as a pet in my heart.
"If 'Blood Devil Li Yao' really did something bad one day, the law would certainly punish me! If 'Abyss Guo Chunfeng' really did something bad one day, the law would punish you mercilessly, too! That's the significance of the Constitution of Cultivators!
"But until then, without any evidence to prove that we have done anything illegal, who is qualified to interfere with us?
"Because we are Abyss or the Blood Devil, and we may cause danger in the future. Therefore, we must be eliminated in advance!
"Then, every man on the street has a weapon hidden in their pants, which may cause serious harm to the innocent women at any moment. What should we do? Should we cut them all off? "
Guo Chunfeng burst into laughter. "Young brother, your words are rather interesting!"
Li Yao smiled, somewhat in embarrassment. He scratched his messy hair and said, "I was too excited, Brother Guo.
"Speaking of which, I would like to say something else. I'm told that there is a trend in parliament recently to define the Patriots Partnership as a spy organization of the Imperium of True Human Beings, and that the culprits such as Lu Zui are the Immortal Cultivators who have been bewildered by the Imperium of True Human Beings.
"Yes. Such an approach can indeed pacify people temporarily and prevent them from being disappointed in the government of the Federation.
"But personally speaking, I strongly object to such a theory!
"Such a theory suggests that all the bad things are done by the demons, the Blood Devil, Abyss, or the Immortal Cultivators. Even if the Cultivators fall into the water occasionally, they will be corrupted by the 'bad guys'! Most of the Cultivators, on the other hand, are pure and naturally righteous!
"Is that really the case?
"Why do we not dare admit it? There is no need for the bewilderment and corruption of the demons, the Blood Devil, Abyss, or the Immortal Cultivators. All the Cultivators and ordinary people are born with an abyss in our heart where one, if not countless, Blood Devils live. We can be very, very bad ourselves without the corruption and bewilderment of the demons and devils!
"Even if Lu Zui is really an Immortal Cultivator, he is definitely not an Immortal Cultivator from the Imperium of True Human Beings but a native of the Xing Yao Federation!
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