Chapter 218

The more decisive and slaughter‑prone a protagonist like Xue Xuan is, the higher the convenience for pushing through the game maps!

Does Zhao Si fear that he is too extreme?

No, Zhao Si only fears that he is not extreme enough.

"As a protagonist, extremity is never a problem; restarting inherently means infinite opportunities and possibilities, as long as one can glimpse the core secret of this chapter, then all death and sacrifice are worthwhile!"

Xue Xuan never cared how many people would die in the simulation; if it weren't for the quick reaction from the Nether River side, he would have destroyed the world twice already!

And even this native doesn't care; as a player Zhao Si who exists macroscopically transcendent, why should he bother caring about life and death in the game for him……

No matter what, this round we must kill our way to face the boss!

"The most important thing is, from the experiences of the previous life we can conclude that the Nether River is an intentionally set celestial realm scam, and Mount Buzhou is also the channel he uses to transport sanguine nutrients to the starry sky and the underground; its purpose is unknown."

"This time, by making Xue Xuan exterminate the law in the primordial wilderness, with no immortals constantly sending chives to the celestial realm, we can also take the opportunity to sever the Nether River's schemes, to see what the purpose of his painstakingly crafted scam really is……"

After repeated consideration, Zhao Si made up his mind, slightly weighed his words, and began filling in the blank in the question:

"Don't be misled by Jin Bing; you must hold fast to your own decision—this life is your second restart, and you must achieve a respectable ending!"

"Don't fear the dead, for those who die are people who eat others; they deserve it, so why worry?"

"The immortal path that has gone astray is no longer righteous; if so, what's wrong with destroying the immortal path?"

【"What's wrong with destroying the immortal path?"】

【The dull‑witted you repeat this conclusion over and over in your heart; the scattered light in your eyes gradually reconverges into a point, and even your mouth mutters this sentence……】

【"What are you saying?"】

【Jin Bing blinked, seeming not to have heard clearly.】

【"What's wrong with destroying the immortal path!"】

【Your eyes flashed with sharp light, you firmly repeated: since the immortal path has been twisted, why preserve it at all?】

【"You……"】

【Jin Bing was stunned: actually this statement itself isn't that frightening, because there are many lunatics in the primordial wilderness, and even more heaven‑defying words have been said before, but people usually just laugh it off, since normal folks know it's just empty boasting—the speaker lacks the strength to carry it out.】

【But the person saying this now is you, and that is truly frightening……】

【As a Golden Immortal who defies common sense, you can basically be called the number one expert in the primordial wilderness!】

【On this basis, you also directly command a vast "Profound Capital Heavenly Court" and indirectly control an even vaster "Jin Bing Heavenly Court", with hundreds of thousands of Profound Immortals, millions of Heavenly Immortals, and True Immortals numbered in the hundreds of millions.】

【Even if you placed this force in the era of the ancient heavenly courts, it would still be a far greater power than the Golden Heavenly Emperor's ancestral Golden Flood Dragon Clan; just those several tens of thousands of Profound Immortals would be enough for you to refight the Eastern Wilderness Campaign against the Egalitarian Heavenly Court and the Supreme Heavenly Court, a battle that decides the overall strategy of the primordial wilderness!】

【Moreover, you still hold in your hand a power capable of destroying the primordial wilderness……】

【Jin Bing ran through your current hand, and instantly broke into a cold sweat: what a villainous big‑boss template!】

【Now, when you say you will destroy the immortal path, Jin Bing fully believes you have the strength to do so……】

【"I think you're too extreme!"】

【Jin Bing hesitated a moment, then decided to continue advising you: actually the immortal path really isn't incapable of continuing……】

【"I think it's not extreme enough!"】

【You calmly shook your head and earnestly told the anxious him: those who have taken the wrong road cannot turn back.】

【Jin Bing, pondering: "Are you referring to yourself? Actually you can still turn back now; mending the fold after losing the sheep, it's not too late……"}

【"No, I mean all of you."】

【Jin Bing: ……】

【Come on, man… why do you insist on walking your so‑called "right path" alone? It really feels like everyone is going against the flow, not just you alone.】

【Having been amused, Jin Bing tried to keep persuading, but you no longer want to dwell on this issue, for once your will is set, only death can stop it!】

【"Even if the whole world regards evil as good, I will absolutely not go along with the crowd and sully myself!"】

【You solemnly faced the disheveled Jin Bing in the wind and said: "You all say I'm wrong, say I should learn to compromise, say you eat people because you're forced…… I don't care about any of that; I say you are evil, and so you are!"】

【"Those who eat people are evil! The Sea of Blood sustains tens of thousands of Profound Immortals, millions of Heavenly Immortals, and countless True Immortals and lower cultivators; the number of people they have devoured likely far exceeds that eaten by all cultivators of the five directions of the world."】

【"From these facts it follows that your Sea of Blood is the most wicked gathering of man‑eating evil paths in heaven and earth, with boundless karmic guilt; not plowing the Sea of Blood right now is already an act of leniency beyond the law……"}

【Jin Bing could take no more and burst out cursing: "I've told you before—if no one is assigned to let them reincarnate, what's the difference between them and the dead? Treating corpses as living beings, what kind of law is this?!"】

【"First, they are not dead; their souls are consciousness itself!"】

【You replied in a deep voice: "Second, this is my law!"】

【"My law specializes in curing evil paths! It specializes in curing evil paths that falsely claim to be righteous!"】

【Jin Bing sneered: "So you're the righteous one? Wanting to destroy the immortal path while claiming righteousness? Ridiculous!"}

【"No."】

【You shook your head: "I am the demonic path!"}

【"If the immortal path is evil, then I am the demon expressly come to exterminate this man‑eating immortal art!"}

【……】

【From this day onward, Jin Bing, having completely lost any desire to communicate, chose to give up!】

【He can't convince you, nor you him; in a sense you are the same kind of people—stubborn donkeys who, once their belief is set, will never turn back, even to the death.】

【Stubborn Jin Bing can do nothing, so he opts to give up, spending his days coldly serving as your rubber stamp, a mere sealing machine; one could say he has resigned himself, or that he has simply given up……】

【And you, after formally establishing the lifelong goal of "exterminating the law", decided to walk that path to the bitter end!】

【You first, with grim expressions all around, banned the mining of spirit stones, and then thoroughly reorganized the production and lifestyle of the Sea of Blood forces……】

【Although you forbid ordinary people from cultivating immortality, the cultivators who have already begun, as well as immortals of all ranks, still have a demand for spiritual energy.】

【Having finally seized the foundation of the Sea of Blood, you certainly wouldn't just watch cultivators die of old age and immortals run out of power; thus you had Jin Bing issue an edict: henceforth, Sea of Blood cultivators should shoulder the great undertaking of assisting the Heavenly Court!】

【Therefore, whether one simply seeks spiritual energy or aims to aid the Heavenly Court in ruling the primordial wilderness anew, the Sea of Blood should actively expand outward for resources and living space.】

【Wield the Sea of Blood's sword to obtain spiritual resources for its cultivators!】

【As for where those resources lie…… aren't the righteous and demonic cultivators of the four wilds ready‑made resources?】

Stomp stomp open! Keep feeling stomp stomp open!

Fight! Without fighting, you cannot cultivate immortality!

In the midst of your passionate, soaring call, everyone exchanged glances: to speak frankly, basically everyone stayed in the Sea of Blood merely to pursue peace and stability; they are not like the mad dogs of the Four Wastelands, each of whom is heaven-defying.

After all, Jin Bing's long-term governance here has been effective; if we set aside the fact that consuming spirit stones is also cannibalistic, then everyone is basically normal.

In other words, they fundamentally lack fighting spirit and ambition.

But now, you insist on sending them out to raid and plunder spiritual energy...

Frankly speaking, basically nobody wants to go out.

But the desperate situation you have created for them is genuinely forcing them to choose: either go out to raid, or stay in the Sea of Blood, staring at spirit stones to quench their thirst until they starve to death?

This issue of interests is so clear it cannot be clearer; there is almost no need to choose...

Soon, they voluntarily accepted your arrangement, and the vast, tranquil Sea of Blood was swiftly reorganized into a massive war machine!

You satisfiedly watched them make the correct choice, then, using the lax Jin Bing as a remote-control driver, indirectly piloted this strongest war machine in all the Wastelands, beginning to invade in all directions...

Such an invasion war with vastly disparate strength hardly ever has any surprises; the first wave of raiding armies returned victorious after a few years, and amid the expectant gazes of the old and young of the Sea of Blood, they proudly brought back an immeasurable huge amount of spiritual energy!

After specialized calculation, the Heavenly Court concluded: the efficiency of raiding seems not much worse than mining spirit stones; at least it can sustain the normal operation of all the markets in the Sea of Blood without any problem.

Upon receiving the accurate data, the Sea of Blood instantly became agitated!

Everyone was excited: 'If we had known it would be this easy, why bother mining spirit stones? Just go raid and loot, and it's done!'

As for the fact that spirit stones are essentially souls, actually only the lower classes are unaware, while the middle and upper classes all know that... but there's no choice; if you want to cultivate immortality, you cannot lack spiritual energy.

Eating people is certainly wrong; if they had a choice, they would certainly not choose to continue eating people.

And you have let them see the hope of cultivating immortality without eating people!

For a time, the Sea of Blood fell into a frenzy; besides the regular army dispatched by the Heavenly Court, civilians also spontaneously sprang up countless raiding squads, each hoisting the banner of 'Acting on Heaven's Behalf,' shouting slogans louder and louder!

However, outside the frenzied crowd, a few enlightened individuals worried anxiously, for they saw that this seemingly boundless path was actually a dead end.

No matter how vast the Wastelands, there will eventually come a day when everything is slaughtered clean; then, when there is nothing left to kill or loot, what will everyone use to sustain the needs of cultivation?

"How could the Heavenly Emperor be so unwise?"

"Exactly! Although using spirit stones is cannibalistic, they are inexhaustible and endless—this truly is the only proper path… yet now we turn to raiding; can the Heavenly Emperor not see its harms?"

Their concerns are quite reasonable.

But at this moment the masses will not listen to advice; under your deliberate guidance, they have become crazed war maniacs, only concerned with the present, not the future.

You, this behind-the-scenes instigator, are leading them and the remnant of immortal civilization down a path with no bright future...

This maddening dead end is called the Demonic Path!

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(End of chapter)