Chapter 138: The Culprit

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Noticing the strange gazes from Zhou Lan and his group, Shendu hurriedly spoke to defend himself: "It's not as if I haven't made efforts for everyone!"

"Back when the Book of Ages incident happened, I could have completely ruled the human world alone, but I still released everyone!"

"Have you all forgotten?"

Hearing this, the expressions of Zhou Lan and his group softened slightly.

Although Shendu had indeed been excessive at times, in the matter of the Book of Ages, this old thing had still shown some loyalty.

After all, even if Shendu had betrayed them again at that time, they would have had no way to stop him.

"Perhaps I was once blinded by greed, but I have changed, haven't I?" Shendu was filled with Righteous Qi.

"Just look at my time in this world; I have never wrongly killed a single innocent!"

"In fact, my taking control of the Dark Plane was all for the sake of the myriad living beings of the Magic Plane!"

"When I became the Dark King, I never once thought about invading the Magic Plane!"

The Saint Warrior looked speechless, "That is because once the Dark Plane and the Magic Plane are too closely connected, even if you successfully control the Dark Plane, I can still beat you back to Hell!"

"So what?" Shendu's expression remained unchanged.

"As long as you are still here, I will never invade the Magic Plane, and the Dark Plane and the Magic Plane can coexist in peace forever!"

"Moreover, as long as we Demons take over the Dark Plane, due to the restrictions from the dimensions, we cannot use too much power in this world; at most, we are about the same as those average Emperor-level Demons."

"The power of Demons is the root of why we are defined as evil, but there are many existences in this world that are similar to us, you..."

"Can they pull the moon down?" the Saint Warrior interrupted.

"Can they make the whole world overcast with a wave of their hands?"

"Can they trigger a tsunami to drown the globe just because they are in a bad mood?"

"Or can they cause an earthquake strong enough to change the face of the Earth just because they have a hot head?"

"Can those demons compare to you?"

"Have some shame, will you?"

"Compared to you, what is the difference between those demons' influence on the world and playing house?"

"Besides, they are natural creatures. Even those so-called Dark Kings of the Dark Plane, they will age, die, and be replaced, and the world remains in a state of balanced change."

"Unlike you bunch of eternal, unchanging old immortals."

The reason the Eight Demons were classified as the side of evil was because their power was too great, and the era of Demons had already passed; only by sealing the Demons would the world move forward again.

It was not because these Demons were truly that heinous.

All good, evil, right, and wrong are based on one's standpoint. The Eight Immortals opposing the Demons was not purely for the sake of humanity, but to let the world move forward.

Therefore, after sealing the Demons, the Eight Immortals also disappeared, leaving behind only the descendants of gods like him, as well as the subsequent Saint Warriors, to maintain the Yin-Yang Balance of the world.

Because like the Eight Demons, the Eight Immortals were also a restraint on the world's progress.

"You think I am extreme because your vision is too narrow, seeing only the good and evil right in front of you, while I have already seen the future!" the Saint Warrior said coldly.

"When I first awakened, I had already foreseen today's trouble."

"Yes, you saw it, and then what?" Dao Long said eerily.

"Great Saint Warrior, do you still not understand? To use a phrase your Righteous Chi Wizards often say, this is Heaven's Will."

"Since you have seen the hopeless future of humanity and given up on interfering with their progress, why can't you stop interfering with us?"

"To put it bluntly, you just can't swallow your pride, you arrogant Saint Warrior."

Saying on one hand that he had lost hope for the future of humanity, while on the other hand stopping the Demons from invading the world—if this Saint Warrior truly didn't care about humans and only wanted to kill the Demons, he wouldn't need to worry about the impact of Yin-Yang Conflict on this world; he could just go ahead and do it.

He didn't think this Saint Warrior would worry about whether he himself would disappear as a result.

He knew all too well what kind of person the Saint Warrior was.

A group of selfless people; they care about many things, but they are the only things they do not care about.

"Perhaps what you say is the truth, but as long as I beat these guys into Hell, the current problem will be solved." The Saint Warrior's eyes narrowed as he raised his Sword high.

As long as all Eight Demons are sealed back into Hell, the Demon in the sky will be forcibly sucked into Hell by the Contract; that is a power even more inescapable than dimensional repulsion.

Rules!

"In other words, you are going to abandon them for the sake of your own cause?" Dao Long said eerily.

"Oh, wait, are you preparing to make the choice for Lv Cheng?"

"Saint Warrior, have you misunderstood the situation? This is not your world, it is his!"

As he spoke, Dao Long looked at Su Meng and Ling Xi on the side.

"The two of you, if you really let him beat the Demons back to Hell, you will never see Lv Cheng again."

"You might not know what kind of place Hell is. Let me describe it to you simply: there is nothing there, it is desolate, and even everything loses its meaning. Power, wisdom, and thought will all be drained away in that hellhole. If Lv Cheng is locked in there, how long do you think he can hold on?"

"By the way, see those Demons over there who look a bit dull? They used to be the absolute rulers of the human world, but after being locked up for thousands of years, they ended up like this."

"And in that hellhole, even death is a luxury; there is only endless pain and despair..."

Before Dao Long could finish his sentence, a cluster of Space Storms wreathed in black light appeared in Su Meng's hand.

"If you dare to lock my son in there, all of you will die!" Su Meng said coldly.

"Oh~ look, great maternal love," Ximu laughed wickedly.

"Come, let's make a bet. Guess if this Saint Warrior will kill this woman along with them?"

"After all, he is sealing the Demons into Hell for the sake of this world's stable existence, but if he doesn't kill this woman too, then after the Demons disappear, this woman will become the culprit behind the world's destruction."

"If he doesn't kill her, our great Saint Warrior will have personally created a demon that destroys humanity~"

"Yes, how could the great Saint Warrior allow himself to create evil?" Shendu chimed in.

"By the way, he should also kill the other woman next to her, and that little girl named Ye Xinxia who is related to Lv Cheng. Otherwise, if someone kills Lv Cheng for the sake of world peace, guess what they will do?"

"Father, you underestimate the Saint Warrior," Xiao Long said.

"The great Saint Warrior exists to oppose evil, so how could he wantonly kill the innocent?"

"No, no, no..."

"..."

Led by Ximu, Shendu and the others began to trade sarcastic remarks with one another.

"Do you think these few words can stop me?" The Saint Warrior narrowed his eyes slightly.

"They cannot." Daolong tilted his head back, watching the Demon gradually losing control high in the sky.

"I am merely reminding you of the consequences your upcoming actions will trigger."

"You cannot save the world."

"On the contrary, you will become the culprit behind the destruction of this world."

Wen Tai was finished off by Shendu; that Dark King who attempted to block the Dark Plane from eroding the Magic Plane was taken out of the game early. If Shendu were to be beaten back to Hell at this moment, no one would be able to stop the Dark Plane's erosion of the Magic Plane!

Furthermore, Lv Cheng's mother—the woman before them who could trigger a Space Storm with a wave of her hand—would proceed to carry out a frenzied revenge against this world. The massive generation of death and destruction would accelerate the Dark Plane's erosion of the Magic Plane.

Not to mention Salang nearby; a crazy mind combined with a crazy power, those two could truly destroy this world!

And that little girl named Ye Xinxia, that child is no pushover either!

"Come now, great Saint Warrior, it is time to make a choice." Daolong withdrew his gaze.

"Will you help me solve the current problem, or shall we all go down together!"

Just in case, he had already made preparations; if this matter truly went awry, Liu Xian and Liu Ru would take all his knowledge of Magic and hand it over to Ye Xinxia, and they would spread a vast amount of Black Qi Magic knowledge throughout this world!

It would not take long before the faith of darkness would permeate this world.

The Demon would eventually return to the human world at the call of humanity!

If he were not sealed away in Hell, but instead killed by this Saint Warrior, then the contingency plan he left in the Dark Plane would be activated; what Wen Tai could do, he could do as well!

No matter what, this time, he would not lose!

Righteous Qi has won so many times; this time, it should be his turn to win!

(End of chapter)