Chapter 100

They threw the problem at me again to solve……

With a sigh, Zhao Si, acting as an external brain, began to analyze seriously:

The Wu Clan is both similar and different from humanity; humans are the genuine 'demon above demons,' and the principle behind this remains a mystery to this day—who knows why an acquired race would receive the Heavenly Dao's favor the moment they are born?

This matter, only the Six Saints could perhaps answer, but unfortunately the Six Saints simply cannot speak of it; on the level of the Heavenly Dao, this secret is even more taboo than directly opening the Dharma Eye to view merit……

Although the Wu Clan also bears the description 'a head above demons,' their nobility has a basis:

Pangu's essence blood, directly incarnated, is essentially the offspring of the creator god; not only can they summon the 'Pangu Dharma Body,' they also possess Pangu's exclusive divine power 'one force breaks myriad laws,' and twelve ordinary half-sages simply combining can, with a single punch, fell a peak half-sage, leaving the Heavenly Court's multitude unable to retaliate.

This is simply not normal at all!

Even more extravagantly, Di Jiang can actually hold the Hongmeng Purple Qi and call the Heavenly Dao to demand inheritance…… and the Heavenly Dao does not object!

It is precisely because of this series of astonishing privileges that the Twelve Ancestral Wu have always been arrogantly proud, believing they are supreme under heaven and born to ride atop others.

As for Hou Tu, she is quite clear-headed, not that extreme, but she still retains a bit of that habit.

Because this is a fact, a fact that nobody can deny, compared to all spirits, the Wu Clan truly seems more noble……

【Refusing to obey.】

【'If equality holds, why does Taiqing among the Three Purities possess so much merit that it can be gathered into the Xuanhuang Pagoda?'】

【This fortune, the Golden Heavenly Emperor bestowed a fief upon the former emperor at Tang Valley, with wife and children each receiving honors, utmost respect……】

In the face of all spirits' lives, not to mention Pangu's offspring, even if Pangu himself were resurrected, he would still have to die!

【This fortune, the Heavenly Emperor, grateful for the demon sovereign's salvation, specially abdicated in favor of the demon sovereign.】

Thus, if Jin Bing does not wish to violently suppress Di Jiang, he must overturn his inheritance theory.

But if ownership of all things had to be decided by constant fighting, then nobody would even bother living—we'd spend all day fighting!

Thus law came into being; law says whose money this is, and that is whose it is.

【Next fortune, establish 'reincarnation'; thereafter the earth's lord shall be Hou Tu, who is enfeoffed as 'Heaven‑following, emulating Hou Tu, the Sovereign of Earth,' to govern reincarnation, to secure future lives for all wilderness spirits, merit boundless!】

However, will Di Jun acknowledge that the wilderness belongs to the Twelve Ancestral Wu? Will Jin Bing acknowledge it?

【'Yes, even the Heavenly Dao is wrong.'】

Put simply, one must prove that Di Jiang's father is not Pangu:

The wilderness of heaven and earth, just like reality, has no naturally existing 【right of inheritance】; the sole 【right of inheritance】 currently in effect in the wilderness is that which the Heavenly Court acknowledges and protects through heavenly statutes and laws.

Parents' estate being inherited by children seems like natural order, but in fact it is not any natural order……

【Refusing to obey.】

Moreover, the Heavenly Dao's lack of objection does not mean that these six Saints—these six double‑flower red poles—do not object; in a sense, the Heavenly Dao's will concerning living beings extends to the Six Saints, and the Six Saints are the Heavenly Dao endowed with self‑awareness!

Thus, the Six Saints' choice to stand in for the Heavenly Dao is none other than Its own choice.

【'From the moment of my birth, the Heavenly Dao has been using Its various actions to invisibly teach me: all spirits are inherently unequal!'】

【A single word shocked the heavens; you calmly said to him, frightening Di Jiang, who was still recounting past events, into a startle, his large eyes revealing even greater shock.】

【You ignored Di Jiang's strange gaze and only spoke loudly.】

For example: you say this piece of money is yours, then I can also say this money is mine; as for who it truly belongs to—

You say Pangu is your father, then you must get Pangu to issue a certificate proving he is your father……

【In the demon calendar, 3740 yuan, 6 meetings, 2 fortunes, the egalitarian Heavenly Court first seized Mount Buzhou, then broke the Great Zhou Heavenly Stars Formation, shot and killed the Heavenly Court's governing Solar Star Sovereign, and eradicated verminous treachery!】

Facing Di Jiang, who brings calamity and endangers the wilderness' safety, the Heavenly Dao (the Six Saints)' choice is:

Chop off his head, to serve as the sacrifice for your enthronement!

Then the reasoning is already clear……

【Having spoken, you, with resolve already set, grasp your sword and charge at the already hopeless Di Jiang.】

【Your heaven‑shaking words frightened even the fearless Di Jiang; he hastily turned and fled, speeding far from you, hiding in Mount Buzhou, watching you warily, lest he suffer collateral damage.】

【'Heaven and earth are not benevolent; they treat all things as straw dogs. If the Heavenly Dao shows partiality, then it is the Heavenly Dao that is wrong!'】

Zhao Si scratched his head, the more he thought, the more he felt he was in the wrong, like a steward maliciously occupying the master's property, insisting on proving the young master is not the legitimate son of the elder……

【Di Jiang overjoyed: 'If equality holds, why is all the merit from the Heavenly Dao's opening of heaven held solely by the Three Purities?'】

……

【Anyway, he was going to die; as the saying goes, words spoken before death are good. Di Jiang laughed and poured out his heart: he had grown up in an unequal educational environment, so why should he be made to pursue equality?】

Theoretically speaking, a child's will is not an extension of the parents' will; father and son are entirely two completely distinct independent individuals!

And the reason the law acknowledges and protects children's right to inherit their parents' estate is merely to maintain social stability and preserve social order, without any ingredient of 'heavenly principle and moral codes.'

【Sword light flashes, head falls!】

The answer is: acknowledge his ghost!

As for the Heavenly Dao, It has never personally acknowledged that the wilderness belongs to the Twelve Ancestral Wu; facing Di Jiang's act of calling to demand an inheritance, Its response is not tacit approval but merely optional and irrelevant to me.

【'If equality holds, why does my Wu Clan incur no karmic debt from killing?'】

【'If so, then why can't I walk this path? Am I wrong? The Heavenly Dao did it too—could It also be wrong? Little Flood Dragon, your equality with Di Jiang makes me feel ridiculous!'】

This is the root of Di Jiang's unwillingness to submit; even if Jin Bing, this Six Saints' divine choice, wields a sage's supreme treasure and can slaughter him at will, he still refuses to yield!

【This fortune, storming the Thirty‑Three Heavens, rescued the Heavenly Emperor, Donghuang, the Demon Master, and other peak half‑sages who had been softly imprisoned by the solar treachery!】

Wrong!

【You spoke calmly, your gaze upon Di Jiang like that upon a corpse……】

Normally this would be settled by a fight; whoever wins gets it—essentially, ownership is decided by force!

This sounds utterly heaven‑defying, containing a kind of bandit logic, but…… the principle really is just that.

【'I thought you had some lofty theory!' Di Jiang mocked.】

【'Strength itself is the highest theory, regardless of whether we acknowledge it.'】

【Again, chan……】

"I naturally respect Pangu's virtue of opening heaven and earth, but if Pangu's descendants wish to use this as a basis, employing the rhetoric of inheritance to build suffering upon the heads of the myriad spirits, then I, Zhao Si (Jin Bing), will never accept it!"

【"Equality? Hahaha!"】

【After three refusals, he finally accepted helplessly, established the capital in the Thirty-Three Heavens, and ascended to the Heavenly Emperor throne within the Hall of Heaven's Summit; thus he became the Golden Heaven Emperor!】

【But time flowed by second by second, and the anticipated Purple Firmament Divine Thunder never arrived……】

So then, we need to analyze what exactly 'inheritance rights' are:

Zhao Si clapped his hands and spoke in a deep voice:

"Tell him, there is no heavenly principle of father-son inheritance; all inheritance relations are determined solely by absolute force."

The Heavenly Dao, aside from openly showing favoritism toward humanity, is merely an exalted ancient will; its existence is tantamount to non-existence, after all, "Heaven and Earth are not benevolent, they treat the myriad creatures as straw dogs."

【This is the fate: the demon emperor, bearing the Six Sages' supreme treasures, waged a great battle intending to annihilate the myriad spirits; Emperor Jiang, the ancestral witch, wielded the Azure Green Sword and beheaded him, saving the Primordial Chaos.】

【Ding! Facing Emperor Jiang's unwilling roar, you chose (in this world, nothing has eternal ownership; those qualified to decide the ownership of the Primordial Chaos are never the so-called Pangu descendants, but the strongest force.)】

(Now, the strongest force stands together with the myriad spirits that truly live on this land; thus, when the Pangu descendants choose to oppose the myriad spirits, they become nothing in any legal sense.)

(The myriad spirits naturally respect Pangu's grace, but if repaying this grace demands their lives, then please forgive all beings for refusing to repay; no favor is impossible to repay, nor is any favor meant to be repaid with everyone's lives—if such existed, it would be unjust.)

(Under heaven there is only one justice and heavenly principle, and only one thing can transcend all things: life, supreme life!)

【"You……are quite extreme……"】

The Wu Clan? How can they compare to humanity?

The Wu Clan clamors for the inheritance, but have they considered humanity's attitude?

Rather than saying the Heavenly Dao is the Wu Clan's steward, it is more accurate to say it is humanity's steward; in its eyes, humanity seems closer to the orthodox Pangu lineage than the Wu Clan……

And inheritance rights are essentially a legal redefinition of the property rights of the preceding generation.

"How come hearing this feels so heaven-defying……"

【You slowly said: "Because no one is a maggot; you are merely life forms transformed from Pangu's blood, and the myriad spirits are likewise transformed from Pangu, essentially equal."】

【Emperor Jiang threw out one question after another, and you could only respond in silence.】

(There is no natural slavery, nor any heavenly-ordained possession; the oppressed rise up!)】

【"Unworthy."】

【The Heavenly Emperor ascended the throne; all under heaven bowed, the four seas submitted, and the myriad spirits paid homage!】

But when you boil down the law, it too relies on absolute force to uphold its authority; it is also a kind of "unilateral claim," and if even the force behind the law cannot overcome the opponent, then the law is useless……

Zhao Si, who had almost fallen into a logical trap, hastily shook his head to free himself from sophistry:

"The core of this issue is not to prove that Emperor Jiang is not Pangu's son, but to prove that even if he truly is Pangu's son, he still has no inheritance rights!"

【Again, Zen.】

"The Primordial Chaos has only one absolute force, and that is the Heavenly Dao; the Heavenly Dao chose the Six Sages, and the Six Sages chose me, so I……choose the collective benefit of the myriad spirits of the Primordial Chaos!"

【You did not object; you simply drew the Azure Green Sword and slowly said: "What you say is correct……so you should now listen to me, before you possess strength matching that of a sage."】

In essence, all matter in the world is ownerless; all claims of ownership are merely unilateral impositions.

【You solemnly explained his injustice to Emperor Jiang, but he disdainfully replied: "Isn't this just 'might makes right'?"】

【Emperor Jiang suddenly laughed and asked: "As a descendant of Pangu the Father God, compared to you maggots, don't we deserve special treatment?"】

(When the descendants of the creator god seek to use 'inheritance' as a legal pretext to enslave or even sacrifice the myriad spirits, then the myriad spirits have the right to smash his dog's head!)

【"I feel it's not extreme enough."】

【Again, the Golden Heaven Emperor embarked on a tour of the Eastern Sea, seeking his parents and siblings……】

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(End of chapter)