"Haha, Fang Han, I originally wanted to lend you a hand, but I didn't expect you could actually materialize the illusory aura of the Yellow Spring Great Emperor. How could this tiny formless heavenly demon withstand the Demonic Emperor's aura! These dissipated auras and spirits are just right for me to refine pills!"
"Yan's" flood dragon form subsequently appeared in Fang Han's mind. Waving his claws, the dissipated heavenly demon turned into many streams of light, which were collected by him and subsequently entered the Yellow Spring Diagram.
Fang Han hurriedly immersed his thoughts into the Yellow Spring Diagram. He saw "Yan" throw the fragmented form of the heavenly demon into the Yellow Spring river water. Then, pointing with a claw, the river water wrapped around the fragmented form of the heavenly demon, and sounds of continuous elutriation transmitted from within. After about half an hour of elutriation, the river water scattered with a boom, and an emerald green pill the size of a mung bean floated above the river water.
"Why is it so small, only the size of a mung bean? Those Blood Pills were so big! This difference is a bit too severe. Refining pills is this easy? I read in 'Various Worlds' that the Ascension Sect's pill refinement requires an excellent pill furnace, many medicinal ingredients, mixed and proportioned, then gentle and fierce fire, continuously injecting magic power, expelling medicinal dregs, and it is still easy to ruin the pill. Even a true disciple, spending several months, might not be able to refine a single batch of pills. Your pill refinement is way too easy."
Fang Han knew the difficulties of refining pills.
Experts of the Divine Ability Realm generally did not eat regular meals, only consuming pills, because the nutrition and energy of pills were pure; ordinary food fundamentally could not achieve this. Those who ate pills remained plump and unaging.
"The function of the Yellow Spring Diagram is actually a gigantic pill furnace. Its function against enemies is not very great, but modifying pills is extremely fast, much more powerful than the Ascension Sect's Dao Artifact immortal furnaces. Back then, when the Yellow Spring Great Emperor forged this diagram, it was precisely to provide pills for the millions of disciples of the sect. In the future, when I recover my strength, and you establish your own sect and widely take in disciples, you must utilize the Yellow Spring Diagram."
"The Yellow Spring Sect, millions of disciples… Isn't that even bigger than the Ascension Sect?"
"Of course. Back then, the Yellow Spring Sect was the number one sect of the demonic path, carving out a place called the Netherworld… The ten disciples under the Yellow Spring Great Emperor controlled life and death. The Yellow Spring Great Emperor even wanted to establish the path of reincarnation, so that after all living beings in the universe of heaven and earth died, disciples would be immediately dispatched to arrest their spiritual imprints. Then, according to a person's good and evil, they would be assigned to reincarnate anew, arranging the fate of all living beings in heaven and earth! Kind people would receive a good fate; wicked people would receive eternal punishment! It was precisely because of this that he incurred the jealousy of heaven! And finally died."
"Establishing the path of reincarnation!"
Even though Fang Han's ambition was higher than the sky, wholeheartedly wanting to cultivate to the Divine Ability Realm and then refine the Dao for longevity, he was still shocked beyond measure by the Yellow Spring Great Emperor's ambition.
A person dying was like a lamp going out; after death, the spiritual imprint dissipated. Unless encountering special causes, it would be preserved, turning into the class of dark spirits and ghosts, but would also quickly be annihilated.
Yet the Yellow Spring Great Emperor wanted to establish a massive dragnet over heaven and earth. Between heaven and earth, after every living being died, a disciple of the Yellow Spring Sect would immediately appear, preserving the spiritual imprint, then arresting them to the Yellow Spring Sect, charting out their fate for the next life according to good and evil.
What kind of grandeur was this?
What kind of great enterprise?
What kind of determination?
"Murder and arson bring golden belts; repairing bridges and paving roads leave no corpses! Between this heaven and earth, there is no justice! The Heavenly Dao also holds no good or evil. Those atrocious ones live to a hundred, while those who are kind to others die violently on the streets! Those with vast divine abilities treat human lives like grass! Therefore! We must differentiate good and evil, letting the kind receive fortune and prosperity! Letting those who commit evil receive retribution! We want every living being between heaven and earth to know: three feet above the head, there are divine beings; every single one of your actions is watched by ghosts and gods! Even if you cultivate divine abilities and attain the Dao for longevity, it is no exception. Thus, the Yellow Spring Great Emperor wanted to establish reincarnation, so that between heaven and earth, there would be the word 'retribution'!"
The flood dragon "Yan" roared, bellowing!
"They all say we are demons! But the things we do! Are open and aboveboard! Bright enough to match the sun and moon! Everything is so that between heaven and earth, there is the word 'retribution'!"
"Murderers pay with their lives, debtors pay with money. It is the unalterable principle of heaven, but in this world, there are indeed many murders without paying lives, and even more debts without paying money… Let there be the word retribution between heaven and earth!"
Let there be retribution between heaven and earth!
Three feet above the head, there are divine beings!
Those who do good, live to a hundred and enjoy wealth and honor.
Those who do evil, die violently or prematurely, suffering torment.
Justice! Retribution! Good and evil!
Was this the Yellow Spring Great Emperor's ideal?
"The Yellow Spring Sect killed living beings to refine pills, drastically enhancing their strength. I fear that was also atrocious," Fang Han said, having been initially stirred to boiling blood by "Yan," but gradually cooling down.
"To reach the pinnacle of light, one must use dark methods… Sigh… The Yellow Spring Great Emperor once wavered over this matter as well. But eventually, he still made the decision. He said: without great destruction, there is no great order. This is also heavenly principle. But he failed."
"To reach the pinnacle of light, one must use bright methods. Perhaps this is the reason why the Yellow Spring Great Emperor failed. Justice forged by using dark methods, what kind of justice is that? Originating from evil, why demand others to be good?" Fang Han muttered. Subsequently, he began to self-reflect: "Everything I have done in my life, I have not killed a single good person. Beating that group of head stewards at the Fang Manor was because they bullied me too much; I returned enmity for enmity, and resentment for resentment. Killing sand bandits, killing yakshas, killing Shuras, killing heavenly demons, was because they were atrocious and wanted to eat people. The heavenly demon just now wanted to eat me, drilling into my mind, I definitely had to kill it; these were all things I should do. Liu Kang was killed by Hongyi. Although he threatened me, it was not to the point of death, and I had no thought of killing him, even saving him. As for Senior Sister Mo's group, if my methods were dark, I would have killed them, leaving no evidence from dead men. I would not have ended up in my current passive position. Taking their flying swords, first, was for survival. Second, they planned to scheme against me, coveting the demonic treasure on my body, preparing to use me as cannon fodder. Third, I killed the Pink Prince, which also counts as saving their lives. If not for me, they definitely would have been killed by the Pink Prince, and their flying swords plundered away…"
Dissecting the things he had done one by one clearly, Fang Han discovered that he hadn't done anything inherently wrong. In all fairness, they were all things that should be done; his methods were not dark, nor did they count as the demonic path.
Interrogating his own inner heart like this, with clear logic, Fang Han in a trance felt his spirit clear and unimpeded. It was as if something pierced through his mind, his spirit condensed, having a feeling of shining with an orb-like luster.
Indeed, shining with an orb-like luster.
Fang Han felt that the many spirits in his mind were all shining with an orb-like luster. Thread by thread, although not strong, they were gentle and tough. His spiritual will had received an immense tempering.