"All the stars in the sky are burning …"
The young man held his breath and looked up.
But all he could see was the dark sky without any stars.
It was a world without stars in the first place.
But the young man vaguely remembered that in the dream made by the demons, in the world where the Federation, the Imperium, and the Holy League were at war, billions of stars were glittering.
The infinite brilliance of the stars was deeply engraved in the young man's soul, making him feel suffocated when he saw the dark sky above his head.
"Why do the gods and devils … fight?" Gus mumbled.
"Why do the mortals fight?"
Lu Qingchen shrugged and said, "Love, hatred, conflicts of interests, survival, and destruction. Those are the only reasons. Getting to the bottom of it, the gods and devils in your eyes are just mortals in a higher dimension. What's the difference between a human being and a god, between a god and a devil?"
Gus did not understand.
He could only ask more specifically, "So, do you hate the Fist God?"
"A Boxing Champion and I don't have any direct grudges. However, in the war between gods and devils, A Boxing Champion and my mentor were on the opposite side, and I was on the opposite side of my mentor. We could only fight to the death."
Although he said that he would not rest until he was dead, Lu Qingchen's ugly face still put on a knowing smile when his mentor was mentioned.
"Your mentor?"
Gus was rather surprised.
It never occurred to him that demons had mentors, too.
What should a demon's mentor look like? A ferocious devil with a green face and long fangs?
Gus asked cautiously, "Is your mentor … a bad guy?"
"No. My mentor, 'Li Yao', is the best good man in the world. I've never seen such a pure and transparent man who is full of courage, passion, and righteousness when he is hundreds of years old. He never forgets his original intention.
When the name 'Li Yao' was mentioned, Lu Qingchen's smile was even more intense, with a hint of fondness. "I've learned from countless unparalleled existences in the sea of stars and even absorbed the strength of a lot of supreme experts. But the only mentor that I acknowledge, respect, and love is Li Yao. There is no doubt that I love my mentor."
"…"
Gus was confused. "Well, if you love your mentor so much, why are you going against him and the Fist King?" "That's right.
Gus was of a mind to say, "Was it because you were born evil and wanted to degenerate into a demon that you were expelled from your mentor?" But he did not dare be so presumptuous in front of a demon.
Also, judging from Lu Qingchen's sincere love for Li Yao, it did not seem like 'degenerate' or 'betrayal' could explain it.
"It's because 99% of the problems in this universe cannot be resolved with 'passion', 'courage', or 'righteousness'. In the vast, perilous universe, the more passion, courage, and righteousness you persist in, the sooner you will be killed. Therefore, the more brilliance my dear mentor Li Yao shines, the more he will drag the Federation and even the entire civilization that he and I love deeply into to death. Is it hard to understand?"
Thinking for a moment, Lu Qingchen gestured and explained, "For example, you are a child of six or seven years old who lives in a village surrounded by venomous snakes. One day, you run into a venomous snake on the road. Filled with a sense of justice, you summon your courage and rush at the venomous snake while waving a twig. You kill the venomous snake without getting hurt at all. What do you think is the reason?"
Guss was stunned for a moment and said, "It's very difficult for a child of six or seven years old to kill a venomous snake unless he's a gifted boxing genius, not to mention killing it with a twig. Either I'm very lucky, or this venomous snake is already dead. At the very least, it has just woken up from hibernation and is half dead."
"Exactly. For a seven-year-old child to kill a viper, it was either luck or because the viper was dying in the first place. Whatever the reason is, it has nothing to do with his passion, courage, and righteousness," Lu Qingchen said.
"However, what if you mistakenly believe that the reason for your victory is passion, courage, and righteousness after you kill the viper, and you even mistakenly believe that you can kill more vipers as long as you have passion, courage, and righteousness?
"Then, you proudly picked up the venomous snake's body and returned to the village to show it to your friends. You also summoned all your friends to summon their passion, courage, and righteousness to go to the mountain with you to kill the venomous snake and clear the way out of the mountain. Do you think your actions are 'righteous' or 'evil'? Are you a 'god' or a 'devil' if you do that?"
Gus was rendered speechless.
"Or should I say, a 'devil of justice'?"
Lu Qingchen gave the answer with a smile. "My mentor, Li Yao, is exactly such a 'devil of justice'. What is even more dreadful is that he is also a 'devil of justice' with very good luck.
"Let's go back to the example just now. Under normal circumstances, even if you can instigate two or three friends to go to the mountain with you to fight the vipers, you will soon run into more venomous, bigger, and fiercer vipers that will bite you or your friends to death. Then, all the losses will be the two or three of your children. The other children will stay in the village dutifully, and their lives will be saved.
"But your luck was really too good. You actually encountered a second, third, and fourth half-dead venomous snake. They were all easily killed by you.
"Even if a viper bit you, it was a non-venomous cauliflower snake because of your unbelievable luck.
"Furthermore, because of your rare body constitution, most of the vipers' venom is ineffective on you. Or maybe when the vipers' venom was about to take effect, you accidentally ate certain herbs that neutralized the venom, and you absorbed the power of the vipers' venom by chance.
"Now, you are even more awesome. You and your friends proudly returned to the village with dozens of dead vipers and showed off your achievements. Now, not just the children, even all the adults believe that as long as you have 'passion, courage, and justice', you will be immune to all poisons and fight your way out of the thousands of vipers. Even if you are bitten by a viper, as long as you stick to justice, the poison will upgrade you and make you stronger.
"Alright. Now, everybody in the village has been encouraged by you. They have even dismantled the village and transformed all the assets into weapons, preparing to fight the billions of vipers in the mountains outside. Gus, what do you think the village will end up like?"
"Well …"
Gus was silent for a long time. Then he sighed and said, "Our luck can't be so good all the time. If we walk too much on the mountain roads, we will run into ghosts and more deadly vipers. In the end, everybody in the village will be killed."
You've already exceeded your reading limit for today. If you want to read more, please log in.
Login
Select text and click 'Report' to let us know about any bad translation.
