Chapter 355: If a dog bites you, do you have to bite the dog back?

On the way to the Duke of Liang's Prefecture, Yin Yunzhou, as the guide, walked at the very front; behind him were Hua Changxi and Jing Le, walking side by side; and behind them were the Embroidered Uniform Guards, following step by step.

The originally bustling street, because of the passing of this group of people, saw merchants closing their stalls and pedestrians avoiding them. In the blink of an eye, no ordinary people could be seen on the street, only a few cultivators gathered in twos and threes, standing on both sides of the street watching them from afar.

Hua Changxi looked at the ordinary people who had hidden into the shops and found that they were all avoiding her gaze with fear. Thinking of the reaction of the neighbors in Nanluo Alley when they saw her, it made her mood very gloomy for a while.

"If you have something to say to me, say it."

Along the way, Jing Le hadn't spoken, so Hua Changxi had to take the initiative to break the silence.

Jing Le looked over and smiled: "I just wanted to accompany you for a while."

Hua Changxi smiled: "I've been back in the capital for less than an hour, and you've come to block me. If you say you have nothing to say to me, I won't believe it."

Jing Le was silent for a moment: "What do you plan to do about the Duke of Liang's Prefecture?"

Hua Changxi hummed and laughed, looking at Jing Le with cold eyes: "The Duke of Liang chasing me down is one thing, but he also besieged my family. Looking at your appearance, why does it feel like I'm the one bullying the Duke of Liang's Prefecture?"

Jing Le looked at her: "Your emotions are a bit too agitated."

Hua Changxi glanced at him sideways and didn't speak.

Could she not be agitated?

Clearly, she and her family were the victims. Outsiders who didn't know the inside story were one thing, but she really didn't expect that in Jing Le's eyes, she had actually become the villain.

Jing Le: "The actions of the Duke of Liang's Prefecture are for the world to judge. The question now is, what do you plan to do?"

Hua Changxi looked at him and asked with a smile: "Are you worried about me? Worried that I will be at a disadvantage and get hurt if I face the Duke of Liang's Prefecture alone?"

Jing Le shook his head, his expression serious: "All the people in the Duke of Liang's Prefecture combined are not your match."

Yin Yunzhou, walking in front, and the Embroidered Uniform Guards, walking behind, had been pricking up their ears along the way, closely following the conversation between the two.

As soon as Jing Le's words came out, the expressions of both Yin Yunzhou and the Embroidered Uniform Guards changed again and again.

Hua Changxi, however, smiled and looked at Jing Le: "I didn't expect you to think so highly of me?"

Jing Le: "The one with the highest cultivation in the Duke of Liang's Prefecture is the Duke of Liang at the Spirit Platform Realm, and he is now half-crippled. Besides that, the Yin family has more than ten Nascent Soul cultivators. I wouldn't be afraid of these people combined, let alone you."

Hua Changxi was silent for a moment: "Since you are not worried about me, then you are worried about the people in the Duke of Liang's Prefecture? Why, are you afraid that I will start a massacre of the innocent after I arrive at the Duke of Liang's Prefecture?"

Hearing this, Yin Yunzhou's breathing became unstable.

Jing Le looked at Hua Changxi and asked instead of answering: "Will you?"

Hua Changxi's eyes were cold: "I am not a monk; I don't have that much compassion. I believe in an eye for an eye."

Hearing this, the corners of Jing Le's mouth curled up, and he suddenly said: "So, if a dog bites you, you have to bite the dog back?"

Hua Changxi's originally high-spirited and firm heart was directly disrupted by these words. She looked at Jing Le, both speechless and surprised, never expecting him to say something so... down-to-earth.

Jing Le, however, restrained his expression, changing from playful to serious and earnest: "The Duke of Liang's Prefecture uses power to suppress people, and you use force to suppress people. One uses power, the other uses force. Do you think there is any essential difference between you?"

Hua Changxi rolled her eyes. She knew that Jing Le coming over so quickly must be to lecture her: "Of course there is a difference. The Duke of Liang's Prefecture actively harms people, while I am passively responding."

Jing Le: "... I am not here to persuade you to put down the butcher's knife and become a Buddha. I just want you to ask your own heart: do you really want to become the same kind of person as the Duke of Liang?"

Hua Changxi frowned and didn't speak.

Jing Le: "No matter what the excuse is, the result of the behavior cannot deceive people."

"The Yin family members who are now panicked and uneasy because of your force are the same Hua family members who were bullied by the Duke of Liang's Prefecture with power. The essence of your behavior is exactly the same."

Hua Changxi became more and more irritable the more she heard. She didn't want to listen anymore and interrupted: "What exactly do you want to say?"

Jing Le looked at Hua Changxi, his eyes particularly serious, and asked again: "Do you want to become the same kind of person as the Duke of Liang?"

Hua Changxi was silent for a long while: "... Are you just here to stop me from going to the Duke of Liang's Prefecture? You want me to swallow this anger, even if I am chased by the Duke of Liang and it affects my family, I can only endure it?"

Jing Le did not answer this question and continued to walk forward with Yin Yunzhou.

Hua Changxi didn't want to say anything else, lest her mind be shaken.

The group walked forward in silence, no one speaking again. Not long after, they arrived at the entrance of the street where the Duke of Liang's Prefecture was located.

Jing Le stopped and looked at Hua Changxi: "The three non-leaky learnings of Buddhism: Precepts, Concentration, and Wisdom. Concentration tests a person's original heart and says that a person must guard themselves."

"A person must think clearly about what they really want and what kind of person they really want to become."

"The Duke of Liang's Prefecture bullied you first, and your counterattack is understandable. But have you thought clearly about the intensity and boundaries of the counterattack?"

"You must know that outsiders get to know you through your behavior. Violence is always something that makes people afraid. Do you want to become someone that everyone avoids?"

"Entering the world to experience is never easy. Faced with external malice and violence, if one cannot stand firm, it is very easy to lose one's guard and eventually become an accomplice to malice and violence."

Having said this, Jing Le stopped and was silent for a moment: "Changxi, the path of cultivation is full of thorns. I hope we can all cross the thorns and walk towards the light."

"Alright, I will accompany you to here."

Standing at the entrance of the street, one could already see the Duke of Liang's Prefecture. Jing Le looked towards the Duke of Liang's Prefecture and smiled: "The next road, you have to walk it yourself."

Hua Changxi looked at him and didn't speak.

Jing Le looked at her deeply and turned to leave without hesitation.

Jing Le's words still affected Hua Changxi. The most direct manifestation was that her speed slowed down when walking towards the Duke of Liang's Prefecture.

According to her original plan, she was going to use force to intimidate the Duke of Liang's Prefecture directly.

Even if she couldn't take action in the capital, she would use soul power to intimidate the main personnel of the Duke of Liang's Prefecture.

As for the culprit, the Duke of Liang, she would not let him go. She had already outlined the scene of the Duke of Liang being swallowed by flames in her mind.

But Jing Le's words...

Although there was a suspicion of standing and talking without back pain, some of the points he made made Hua Changxi feel shocked, and even afraid.

Before this, she had never thought that she would actually be the same kind of person as the Duke of Liang!!!

Yes, he was right. Using power to suppress people and using force to suppress people are essentially using violence to intimidate the weak, and both are bullying the weak.

In the midst of chaotic thoughts, the Duke of Liang's Prefecture arrived.

At the entrance, there was no one, not even the gatekeeper.

Yin Yunzhou looked at Hua Changxi, who didn't know what she was thinking, and said quickly: "Wait a moment, I'll go in and report first." After saying that, he ran into the Duke of Liang's Prefecture in a flash.

Hua Changxi didn't stop him, just looked at the Duke of Liang's Prefecture, her eyes narrowed slightly. Jing Le's words reminded her of other things.

The karma liquidation on the Karma Fire Platform, the virtue test in the Fire Spring Palace...

They all seemed to point to the same thing, which was—cultivators must self-cultivate and self-restrain! ===== CHAPTER 356 =====