Chapter 101: Indisputable

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Under the night sky, Lv Cheng lay beside the Xingyu Tianshu.

After Daolong posed his soul-searching question, Lv Cheng quite decisively abandoned the plan to eliminate external forces.

No choice, he couldn't beat them.

In terms of the balance of rules, he could at most remain undefeated, but wanting to win was absolutely impossible.

"Master, why must you save this tree?" Liu Xian asked, puzzled.

If it were to obtain more Flame Essence, then as Daolong said, one would only need to delay the tree's aging and infuse it with Fire Energy.

There is no need to try to change the balance of this world just to revive a tree.

The effort and the harvest are completely disproportionate.

"I feel like it," Lv Cheng said with a casual expression.

"If I want to do it, I do it; why would I need so many reasons?"

"Just like how I spent so much to turn you two into what you are now—it wasn't cost-effective for me, but I did it anyway. Just like that, does it need a reason?"

Whether it is Yin or Yang, both belong to an Extreme State, and in both of these states, he has nothing to do with being human.

In this current Demon state, he acts entirely according to his whims; he does whatever he wants. Reasons, gains, and losses—his mind doesn't consider these things at all.

As for the Saint Warrior side, it also doesn't consider gains and losses, but a Saint Warrior needs a reason to act, a sufficient reason—an indisputable reason.

When in Bo City, humans and demons belonged to natural competition; there was no right or wrong. Survival of the fittest, natural selection—this is the natural law of survival. Therefore, even seeing demons slaughter a city, the Saint Warrior side of him felt nothing. After all, humans also slaughter demons, humans also seize demon territories and slaughter demon cubs; there is no difference between the two.

As for the good, evil, right, and wrong within humanity, that goes without saying.

Everything is determined based on one's stance. Plunder and violence carried out for one's own side are justice to oneself, but to the side being plundered, it means something else entirely.

To put it bluntly, the Saint Warrior side of him is extremely earnest!

Unless there is an indisputable reason, he will not take action.

Why does he not think of anything else after his Saint Warrior side appears, knowing only to fight his Demon side? It is because only in this one matter is his reason indisputable!

"..."

After thinking for a moment, Lv Cheng took out the statue of Luo Pei, stopped the power of the Tiger Talisman, and Righteous Qi once again filled his body. The Pure Yang Sword appeared, the Rat Talisman was activated, and the long-dormant Luo Pei was resurrected once again.

Awakening Luo Pei requires the Pure Yang Sword and his own Righteous Qi as a catalyst; otherwise, the one resurrected would be someone else. And in the state of suppressing Demon Qi, the Pure Yang Sword also disappears. As for where it stays, he doesn't know either; perhaps it is in the Dimension Space, or perhaps it stays with his Righteous Qi.

"You..."

Looking at the two young girls beside Lv Cheng, Luo Pei's expression was somewhat unnatural.

Demon aura? Or vampires?

Lv Cheng, who had been suppressing his Righteous Qi for a long time, was sorting out his mind.

A strange feeling; every time he switched, he felt as if he had taken a nap and had a very long dream.

After a good while, Lv Cheng's mind finally calmed down.

"Master?" Liu Xian called out tentatively.

Such a strange feeling; the aura has changed.

"Don't call me Master, just call me by my name," Lv Cheng rubbed his head.

"There are no slaves in the new era. If you are using it as a term of endearment, I suggest you change it; for example, you could call me Daddy."

Liu Xian and Liu Ru looked at each other, their expressions somewhat strange.

How improper!

It is indeed different from just a moment ago.

The Lv Cheng from just now was aggressive, and he was forceful and overbearing. Although he would give people a choice on the surface, in reality, there was no choice at all; whether you chose or not, the result was the same.

But the current Lv Cheng, that aggressive aura had clearly disappeared, and...

"Don't gossip about me in your heads," Lv Cheng patted the heads of the Liu sisters.

"Oh..." Liu Xian stuck out her tongue, somewhat embarrassed.

She forgot that Lv Cheng has Mind Reading.

"Did you encounter trouble again?" Luo Pei asked.

"Mm." Lv Cheng nodded, pointed to the Xingyu Tianshu behind him, and gave Luo Pei a rough account of the trouble he encountered today, hoping to get a method to trigger the Heavenly Tribulation Fire.

"Heavenly Tribulation Fire?" Luo Pei looked at the flame in Lv Cheng's hand and fell into silence.

"There is a way, but it is somewhat dangerous."

"You must have suppressed your Righteous Qi just now, so although you are Yang Li, you are only half of Yang Li. Your ability to control fire is actually reduced by half."

The corner of Lv Cheng's eye twitched, "Half?"

"Of course, you occupy Yang Li, and the Yin-Yang Balance Curse on your body divides the status of Yang Li into two parts: one part belongs to Righteous Qi, and one part belongs to Demon Qi," Luo Pei explained.

"It's just that the Righteous Qi and Demon Qi inside your body don't see eye to eye, so your current state is actually the weakest—not even as strong as the half-state."

"If you want to control the eruption of the Heavenly Tribulation Fire, you need to balance the Righteous Qi and Demon Qi within your body, at least to make them call a temporary truce."

Lv Cheng looked speechless, "Do you think that's possible?"

"Impossible," Luo Pei shook his head.

"But this is the only way. The Fire of Heaven and Earth is the Yang within Yang. The pretty lion can't help you either; he divided the position of Yang Li with you. Now, the authority over the ultimate fire of the Yang realm lies with you. A demon can control it, but cannot trigger it."

"Is there really no other way?" Lv Cheng asked.

"..."

"There is an alternative method, it just depends on whether you dare to try it," Luo Pei said.

Alternative?

The corner of Lv Cheng's eye twitched, "What method?"

"Yin-Yang Splitting—let both your Yin and Yang sides come out, and then they will definitely fight. When the conflict between your Yin and Yang sides reaches its extreme, it will have a volcanic-eruption-like impact on the Li Fire of Reality. The massive Fire Energy generated by your conflict will fill this world," Luo Pei said.

"And then?"

"That's it."

"..."

"Are you messing with me?" The corner of Lv Cheng's eye twitched wildly.

Last time his Yin and Yang sides clashed, if not for the appearance of Ye Xinxia, which caused both sides to fall into a brief stagnation, and Shendu seizing the opportunity to launch a sneak attack, he feared he would have completely split apart back in Bo City!

A sneak attack!

It worked once, but it might not work a second time!

Moreover, he was only an Intermediate Mage at the time, a little weakling, and it still triggered that level of conflict; if he were to trigger a Yin-Yang Splitting now, wouldn't that be a battle between gods?

"You will have to face it sooner or later," Luo Pei said.

"Blind suppression will eventually lead to a greater conflict; if you don't start trying now, when the time comes that it reaches an irreconcilable point, you won't have a chance to resolve it even if you want to."

Although Lv Cheng's Demon side felt closer to his true self, it was not the complete him after all!

The Saint Warrior side had no desires or cravings, while the Demon side, no matter how well it disguised itself as a human, could not change the essence that it only possessed desire.

The Magic Spell Lv Cheng used to suppress the Righteous Qi was incomplete; in reality, a portion leaked through during normal times, which was why he felt his Demon side was more like himself, though in reality, it was not.

Lv Cheng did not know this; after all, he did not understand Magic Spells, and the Demon who gave him this Magic Spell likely hoped to use this method to gradually balance the Righteous Qi and Demon Qi within his body.

Otherwise, an Extreme State is very dangerous.

The Saint Warrior side is the sun, full of light and heat, attracting people to draw near, only to eventually burn everything away!

And the Demon side is a black hole, forcibly attracting everything to draw near, and then, destroying everything!

"Big nephew, are you hiding something from me?"

Lv Cheng once again took out the Magic Mirror used to contact the demons.

On the other side of the mirror was Xiaolong, who was in the Dark Plane.

"Uh... you found out?" Xiaolong was somewhat embarrassed.

No, he had already discussed it with Daolong before; that Black Qi Wizard could not possibly tell Lv Cheng about this matter, because once the truth was known, that Extreme State of the Demon would become unstable.

Extreme things are all very dangerous!

This was also the method the demons had thought of after discussing it, as Lv Cheng, as an individual, did not reject the existence of demons.

But the pure Demon side cannot tolerate anything else!

Back in Bo City, his father had already discovered the danger of the extreme Demon Qi, so he had been looking for a way ever since.

Whether it was Shengdoushi Lvcheng or Emo Lvcheng, both were extremely dangerous to them.

Only Lv Cheng in a balanced state could make rational judgments!

The Magic Spell he provided actually allowed the Demon side to take the lead, and then let the Righteous Qi flow out slowly, acting like a limiter; when there was very little Righteous Qi, Lv Cheng would feel his mind was very clear, without the struggle of the mixed state from before, and although he leaned toward the Demon in his thinking, he did not have the mindless paranoia of the Extreme State.

This was a self-deceiving Magic Spell; Lv Cheng himself did not know this, so he could maintain stability, but if he found out, that Demon side would throw a tantrum!

"Then what should I do now?" The corner of Lv Cheng's eye twitched slightly.

This Magic is truly inexplicable; even a self-deceiving Magic Spell exists, and it's so abstract!

They even managed to come up with a limiter!

"Listen to Luo Pei," Shendu said.

"He won't just watch your Yin-Yang Conflict destroy this world; he should have a way to deal with this, but you must also prepare yourself mentally."

"We are helping your Demon side take the lead, but Luo Pei, he is definitely biased toward letting your Saint Warrior side take the lead."

Lv Cheng's human nature was indifferent because of his experiences; whether in those past lives or this one, he had never felt the so-called truth, goodness, and beauty from the human world, and the Demon side simply magnified this indifference.

But the Saint Warrior side magnified the few good intentions Lv Cheng possessed.

Whether good or evil, Lv Cheng was paranoid, so he could not completely sever good and evil; he had to keep a little bit of both, otherwise, the Saint Warrior side would only think about fighting the Demon, and the Demon side would destroy everything at will, including the demons!

(End of this chapter)