"However, for us, the capability of the Core Formation Stage is just right. If we are too weak, we will be a burden when we explore the relic of the Pangu civilization. Besides, we will not be of much use in the Flying Star Sector!"
Su Changfa said with a smile.
The three of them talked and laughed, not caring at all about the fact that Li Yao had 'eaten a lot of people'.
Li Yao did not pass out after being kicked by Kou Ruhuo. He breathed heavily for a long time, before he suddenly crouched forward and vomited hard.
While he vomited, he shuddered. Occasionally, he raised his head to look at the three of them. His big, bloodshot eyes had constricted into the size of beans. Brutality beamed out of his eyes, but a moment later, weakness and humility beamed out of his eyes.
He looked like a ferocious wolf and a dog whose legs had been broken.
He seemed to be biting the most tender parts of the three of them brutally, and he seemed to be crouching before them, holding their thighs, and begging for mercy.
How pitiful, hateful, and disgusting he was!
"Fellow Cultivator Li, you really can't judge a book by its cover!"
Su Changfa chuckled. "I didn't know that you would be so brutal and merciless at such a young age. You have survived to this place by eating all your companions. Not simple. Not simple!"
His words shot Li Yao's heart like a bullet. His face turned pale again, as if he were recalling the unbearable memories. He covered his mouth and continued vomiting.
After vomiting for a long time, tears of blood flowed out of his eyes, but he did not dare move his hands away. His body was almost squeezed into the crevice, as if he was too ashamed to see anybody. He shouted desperately, "You — you don't understand at all! In such an environment, if I didn't eat them, they would've eaten me! I — I was only trying to survive! I wanted to live. I wanted to live … "
He covered his entire face and wept bitterly.
The three Immortal Cultivators watched his hideous performance coldly. Su Changfa sighed gloomily and said, "In the boundless sea of stars, darkness is boundless, but too many human tragedies are happening every minute!"
"Although your actions are unforgivable, at the end of the day, it's all for the sake of survival. As the saying goes, every man for himself, and the devil takes the hindmost. As outsiders, we don't have the qualifications to judge whether you are right or wrong!"
"However, what you are doing must've greatly violated the rules of the Flying Star Sector. Even if you can return to your hometown, how are you going to face your compatriots when you are such a 'man-eating devil'? Tsk, tsk, tsk, when I think of you being cursed by thousands of people, and even being despised by your friends and family, I feel sad for you, young man! "
Li Yao shuddered hard, as if the most terrible thing on his mind had been pointed out. He opened his fingers, revealing an extremely twisted face as he mumbled, "I — I don't know. I never thought that I would be able to return to the Flying Star Sector one day. I …"
Suddenly, brutality beamed out of his eyes again. He grabbed a sharp rock and waved it at the three Immortal Cultivators crazily, while he shouted hysterically, "Who — who are you exactly? What did you do to me just now? Why did I say everything when I was in a trance? I seem to have had a very scary nightmare. Is it because of you guys? Was it? "
"Are you here to catch me? Are you here to seek revenge? Are you here to kill me? “
The three Immortal Cultivators were amused.
Looking at her fingernails, Tang Qianhe scorned, "Little guy, don't be too proud. You are just a bumpkin in the Core Formation Stage. Do you think that we are qualified to come all the way here to kill you? If we really wanted to kill you, you would've been blown into smithereens with a simple yawn. Do you think that we have tolerated your arrogance until now? "
Li Yao's crimson eyes rolled more than ten times. The bulging veins on his face gradually calmed down. Touching the wound on his chest where he had been kicked twice in a row, he straightened his neck and gnashed his teeth. "I don't believe it! Even if you didn't want to kill me in the beginning, you must've been tempted to kill me after hearing so many … embarrassing things that I told you!
"It is the duty of a Cultivator to slay demons and devils! I — I have become a monster even uglier than fiends in the eyes of all the Cultivators after what I did. Everybody has the right to kill me!
"I — I am a good man, too. Now that the truth is out, you can kill me if you want, but don't make fun of me!"
"Alright!"
Tang Qianhe stepped forward with a smile. The mystic rays entangling the right arm of the Crystal Suit expanded nonstop and formed five sharp claws of light under the constraint of the force field.
Shua!
Tang Qianhe's claws of light slid past the wall softly. She did not seem to be exerting any strength, but a lot of rocks were blown into smithereens and crumbled. Five traces more than half a meter long were left on the wall!
"You finally have the backbone of a Cultivator. Then, I'll fulfill your wish!"
Tang Qianhe bellowed. The five claws of light opened and snatched at Li Yao's skull brutally!
"Please spare my life, senior!"
Li Yao's neck almost retreated into his chest. He crouched on the ground and screamed like a pig being butchered. "Don't kill me! Don't kill me! Please don't kill me! "
"I knew it!"
Tang Qianhe sneered in boredom. She retreated the claws of light and kicked Li Yao away. "You don't look like a tough man who is scared of death. Why are you pretending?"
Li Yao's back hit the protruding stalagmites on the wall of the cave. He grimaced in pain and groped his back with his hands, but he did not dare cry out in pain. Seeing that the three of them did not show any intention of killing him, he put on a confused expression.
After a long daze, he asked carefully, "Are — are you not going to kill me, seniors?"
Tang Qianhe did not even bother to look at him. She sneered and said, "If you continue to be so noisy and waste our time, chances are that I will really chop you into pieces in my fury!"
"Don't. Don't. Please don't!"
Li Yao was overjoyed. Beaming with joy, he bowed deeply and said, "Thank you for your kindness, seniors. You have given me a new life. Even if I work hard for the rest of my life, I will not be able to repay one ten-thousandth of your kindness!"
"Who dares ask you to work for them?"
Tang Qianhe mocked. "Are you not scared that you will find an opportunity to eat all three of us when you are addicted to human flesh?"
Li Yao blushed and was unable to say anything for a long time. Suspicion flashed in his eyes again, as he stammered, "Seniors, you are all as remarkable as deities. You can stomp me to death as easily as stomping on a bug. I would never dare to offend you again!
"But — but I wonder … why are you so merciful, seniors? I thought that all the Cultivators would draw their swords and slay me the moment they heard such a thing! "
Tang Qianhe raised her eyebrow and looked at Su Changfa.
Su Changfa coughed softly and put on a fake smile. "Fellow Cultivator Li, who says that we are Cultivators? Hehe. We are … Immortal Cultivators! "
"Ah!"
Li Yao was greatly surprised. He looked at the three of them in desperation and took a few steps back. There was both fear and confusion on his face, but there was also a glimmer of hope!
"What's that look in your eyes? If you dare to look at us like that again, I'll dig your eyeballs out! "
Tang Qianhe said angrily. "You can even eat your friends and companions on the same starship. You are worse than pigs and dogs. Are you qualified to comment on our true path of immortality?"
"I dare not. I dare not!"
Li Yao was sweating hard. His lips were shivering, and his eyeballs were rolling again. He stammered, "I was as blind as a bat. I didn't know that it was the three deities who had come. Please forgive me … Well, well …"
He was a little incoherent.
"Fellow Cultivator Li, it seems that you have some misunderstanding about the true path of immortality that the Immortal Cultivators practice!"
Unhurried, Su Changfa said with a smile, "But it does make sense. The universe is a vast place. It is inevitable that many beliefs deviate from the right track during their spread. Also, because of the slander of many malicious guys, they are gradually deformed beyond recognition. Even those who do not know the truth are scared of them as if they were snakes and scorpions!
"Take you for example, Fellow Cultivator Li. What did you do wrong? Did you intentionally kill your companions? Of course not! You just want to live. Is there anything wrong with your survival instinct? "
"But if other people hear your story, they will not care about the environment you were in at all. They will certainly label you as a 'man-eating fiend' and beat you to death. They will even torture you after you are dead!
"Who will know that you are in fact a kind-hearted, good man who was forced to do what you did?"
"Yes — exactly!"
Li Yao nodded hard and mumbled, "I'm a good man. I'm a good man. I was forced. They forced me!"
"That's right. You are like that, and so are the Immortal Cultivators. We are just struggling to survive in the perilous, dark universe!"
Su Changfa sighed and said, "I'll say it again. Right now, we are in the same boat. We should help each other and escape. The four of us are the only survivors on this planet. If we have any more conflicts, none of us will be able to survive!"
"You're absolutely right, Senior Su!"
Li Yao took a long breath in relief. His face finally became lively again. Looking at the glamorous Crystal Suits on the three of them, greed beamed out of his face as he said, "It seems that the rumors about the Immortal Cultivators that I read in the past were mostly lies and slander! But I wonder, what is the real path of immortality like? What is the difference between the Immortal Cultivators and the Cultivators? "
Su Changfa smiled and said, "The mysteries of the path of immortality are too complicated a topic for me to explain in a few words. I can only tell you that the difference between the Immortal Cultivators and the Cultivators is not about their species or their Cultivation arts, but about the change of their belief!
"As long as their belief is changed and they get rid of the shackles of the past, allowing them to view the universe and mankind from a higher perspective, any Cultivator can become an Immortal Cultivator and shoulder the real responsibility of the civilization of mankind!
"Take you for example, Fellow Cultivator Li. You have done something that is unpardonable in the eyes of other people. Even though you have returned to the Flying Star Sector, you will always be haunted by your conscience. Once it is exposed, you will be a rat on the street that everybody wants to beat up!
"I assume that the Flying Star Sector has some magical equipment similar to 'lie detectors' and 'Meditation Healers' who are adept at hypnosis, right? Your dirty little secret is not so easy to keep, is it? "
Li Yao's face was as pale as ash. He could not help but nod his head.
Su Changfa smiled casually. "That's right, Fellow Cultivator Li. Since the moment you crossed the boundary, you have been abandoned by the Cultivators as a whole! You know very well that you can't go back. You will never go back! "
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