Chapter 278: Not the Main Text: Answering Readers' Questions

Not the Main Text: Answering Readers' Questions

Not the Main Text: Answering Readers' Questions

Hello, reader. Thank you for your comments and analysis. I will correct what I have done wrong and encourage myself where I have done well. Regarding the questions you raised, I can explain them slightly, and it will be based on the content that has appeared so far, without involving spoilers.

In addition, I think the questions raised by this reader are quite typical, and other readers may have the same doubts, so I am posting a single chapter to answer them so that more readers with doubts can see them.

1. The issue of the opposition between righteousness and evil.

This is also the point mentioned most in your book review. It needs to be clarified that in this book, righteousness and evil are not a relationship of life-and-death, where one cannot exist with the other. This point is very important. With evil, the righteous path can still become immortal; with the righteous path, demons can also become immortal. These two are not enemies of the Great Dao. This needs to be made clear.

So what is the division and conflict between righteousness and evil? In the book, the demonic path is defined as: for the sake of one's own cultivation, one can wantonly kill people. Here, "people" includes mortals and practitioners. One can use people to refine methods and artifacts, such as the Blood Shadow Divine Light and the Bai Gu Locking Heart Hammer.

If one wantonly kills demons, spirits, ghosts, and monsters for no reason to refine artifacts and methods, it cannot be said to be a demonic sect; at most, it is a side sect.

So what is the righteous path? One's own cultivation will not harm the lives of others, and in addition to cultivation, one is willing to help mortals and regulate the weather and geography. This is the righteous path. For example, the Sanqing Mountain that surveys thunder, the Longhu Mountain that bestows talisman water, the Juqu Mountain that catches ghosts, the Sanyuan Mountain that controls water, and including when the demonic path kills mortals, one is willing to step in to maintain order, and the mortals under one's rule live quite well. This is the righteous path.

So it is definitely not the case that seeing the demonic path and killing it is the righteous path, or seeing the righteous path and killing it is the demonic path.

Therefore, conflicts between righteousness and evil generally appear in two situations.

The first is crossing the line. For example, the demonic path kills people to refine methods and kills them on the head of the righteous path. For example, the Blood God Sect destroys Western Kunlun, for example, the Blood God Child kills the immortal of Juqu Mountain.

In this case, the righteous path must respond, but the degree of response is also different. For example, in the first situation, everyone just makes a show of it, because Western Kunlun is already gone. In the second situation, Juqu Mountain will fight to the death, actively investigating the origin of the Blood God Child, actively establishing the Haoran Alliance, and promoting the righteous path to unite to resist the demonic path. This is because Juqu Mountain is still there, and its strength is still very strong.

The second is grabbing territory. The Blood God Sect destroying Western Kunlun is grabbing territory, the Three Corpse Island occupying the sea is grabbing territory, the Green Robe Old Ancestor wanting to expand outward after occupying the Southern Wilderness, including Emei wanting to occupy Little Xikang now—these are all grabbing territory. In this case, they will fight.

And except for the above two situations, everyone will not really fight, because the time of practitioners is too precious. The first realm is eating Qi and opening orifices, the second realm is seeking Gang and Sha, the third realm is crossing the tribulation, the fourth realm is avoiding disasters. Everyone is too busy, no time to fight every day, and the higher the realm, the more so.

Conversely, a righteous sect that doesn't think about quiet cultivation to become an immortal every day, but goes everywhere to slay demons and expand territory every day, that is abnormal. For example, the Western Shu Xuan Sect is regarded as an alien by the East.

2. Why don't great cultivators sweep away the other side?

This question has actually been explained in point 1. As long as you don't provoke me, kill my disciples and the mortals under my rule, I'm too lazy to care about you. If I were to slay demons and defend the Dao every day, where would I have time to cultivate? How to break through the realm? How to prepare for crossing the tribulation and avoiding disasters? How to become an immortal?

Of course, being busy with time is only one reason, there are other reasons.

For example, killing demons is also risky, you will be killed, you will be injured, so without sufficient reasons, I will not take this leisure, nor will I exert this effort.

It must be emphasized that great cultivators are very busy. Besides cultivation, they also have to guide disciples and juniors, and manage the sect. Occasionally, they have leisure to visit friends and drink tea. You really can't ask them to slay demons and demons on the way.

Are there any great cultivators whose talent and luck are too strong, and after ensuring their own rapid cultivation and gaining powerful strength, they still have the energy to slay demons?

Yes, such as Zhang Zu Ancestral Tian Shi, such as Xu Ancestral Tian Shi, such as Sa Ancestral Tian Shi, such as Zhang Sanfeng, such as Changmei True Person, such as Miaoyi True Person. Without exception, the sects where these high masters are located completed expansion and established eternal foundations during the active periods of these high masters, because these high masters killed demons in addition to seeking immortality and gained fame and profit.

If you don't have this strength and still go everywhere to slay demons, then it is highly likely that you will neither become an immortal nor slay many demons, so no one will remember you in later generations.

3. The demonic sect cannot be killed off.

Points 1, 2, and 3 should be combined. Because it is not that once the righteous high masters unite to kill the demons, this world will be clean and peaceful. Just like bad people always exist, the demonic path also exists.

There are too many difficulties and temptations on the road of cultivation. Many righteous practitioners and side-sect practitioners become demons as they cultivate, because the book also emphasizes that humans are the spirit of all things, and the power of using people to refine methods and artifacts is very strong.

Deng Yin becoming the Blood God Child is a good example, but it is by no means an isolated case.

This is human nature, and also about time and place.

Because this is a supernatural world, after people die, there are still corpses, souls, and bones. These dead things, when they encounter Yin Qi and Sha Qi, naturally become demons without being educated by anyone. When people die, small demons may be born, and when practitioners die, big demons may be born.

So, the demonic path cannot be killed off.

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I think after looking at the above three points together, it should answer most of the doubts of this reader. In addition, regarding the specific details raised by the reader, I can also explain them slightly, as follows:

(1) Except for the Blood God Sect and the Three Corpses, the demonic evil paths basically don't take the initiative to calculate against the famous righteous sects. This is too strange. Isn't there even a big demon of the fourth or fifth realm or even the immortal realm who secretly kills juniors?

Answer: Because I wrote about the Blood God Sect and the Three Corpses, you say that there are none except these two. You can't say that, because I only mentioned these two, it doesn't mean there are no others.

(2) The demonic sect relies on killing people to practice, is there any comparison between killing mortals and killing practitioners? There should be countless demons attacking famous disciples traveling everywhere.

Answer: The book contains plot points where demonic individuals ambush disciples of righteous sects traveling in various places. Didn't I even use friends around the protagonist as examples, some of whom were killed by demonic heads? They were even ambushed and killed by great demonic heads (like Lu Yizhao of Mount Juqu, who died on Three Corpses Island, killed by that Lustful Corpse Cui Ying, who cast aside her dignity to bully the weak. Zheng Zhaoguan of Wan Shougong died in Yu Yang, ambushed and besieged by two of the Eight Great Vajras of Mount Baiman—Chapter 204). These things have already been mentioned in the book; they just weren't written about in great detail. Furthermore, the risks and difficulties of killing mortals versus killing cultivators are different, and this must also be distinguished.

(3) The Blood God Child even secretly killed the descending immortal of the Shangqing Sect. Why didn't the Three Corpses kill a few thousand disciples of the Shangqing Sect after stealing the Earth Sha?

Answer: This question is a bit unreasonable. The Blood God Child had to be sneaky in Juqu Mountain. You let Gu Chen kill a few thousand disciples of the Shangqing Sect in Juqu Mountain, which is embarrassing.

(4) According to the description in the book, before the Blood God Child was born, the righteous sect should have an absolute advantage over the demonic evil sect. Why don't they directly destroy them? Except for the areas where the demons actively unite to defend, it is impossible for demonic sects to survive. Like the three demonic sects in Xiangxi, the Miaojiang demonic sect, the Guanzhong demonic sect, and the Little Xikang demonic sect simply have no room for survival. These demonic sects don't even have a fifth realm. A few fourth-realm middle-level people from major sects join forces, and they can clear a province in a few days.

Answer: Points 1, 2, and 3 should be able to explain this.

(5) And the latest Little Xikang plot is really a bit like playing house. Little Xikang is fighting between righteousness and evil, and the Sword Pavilion is like playing NPC monsters and destroying sects one by one. Is there no chain reaction in the demonic sect? And no sect is hiding.

Answer: When the protagonist entered Little Xikang, it was already introduced that most demons hid in Xuanxin Temple and Bai Gu Zen Monastery, a small part left Little Xikang, and a very small part held a fluke mentality. This has already been said. As for the chain reaction of the demonic sect, it was mentioned in the latest chapter before you asked, and it has been emphasized many times before. And your next question said that the Blood God Sect came to Little Xikang for support, so why did you say there was no chain reaction?

(6) The Blood God Sect came to Little Xikang for support, preferring to chew hard bones and fight the Sword Pavilion rather than support small evil sects.

Answer: I don't quite understand the logic of this question. What's the problem with the Blood God Sect fighting Emei and not supporting small evil sects? He has a grudge against Emei, and he is not a saint. Why support small evil sects? He must only do big things, such as helping the Green Robe transform into a dragon, unsealing Gu Chen, and supporting the Bai Gu Zen Monastery.

(7) The demonic sect is all NPC monster-ized, and the evil sect is all playing house.

Answer: I will strengthen character portrayal in the future and work hard to improve.

(8) The protagonist is famous and dares to go out to open a mountain gate alone. According to the author's writing, it is estimated that no demon will come to ambush.

Answer: The current trend in Little Xikang is that the Xuan Sect attacks and the demonic path retreats.

(9) The protection methods of the seeds of various sects are also quite ridiculous. What kind of high-level people are watching? When the protagonist and his friends disguised themselves and went to Xiangxi to kill demons, weren't they easily trapped in a dangerous situation? That small demonic sect master was only at the level of a few purifications on the street, and no righteous high-level person passed by and destroyed it. The protagonist can destroy a sect at the level of the first purification, so any fourth realm coming to Xiangxi once a year for a week can sweep away all evil sects except the zombie sect. That is the zombie sect, and a fifth realm can clean it up in a day.

Answer: Points 1, 2, and 3 should be able to explain this. In addition, regarding the specific Tianqiao Mountain issue you raised, I also specifically explained it. The book spent a certain amount of space explaining the origin and characteristics of the Tianqiao Mountain mountain-protecting formation, and the fifth realm also felt tied up. You can re-read that content.

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Finally, thank you again for the reader's message, and I hope everyone can leave more messages and comments when reading the book. I will read them all, thank you.

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