"Goodness?"
"For soone like , is there still any 'good' to speak of?"
"The evil I've done, the people I've hard, are beyond counting. You're the first person to call good!"
Lu Simiao laughed unrestrainedly.
It was as if everything from all these years had finally been released.
The aura around his body shot straight into the sky.
When that powerful wave of force swept out, the entire Demon City seed to start trembling.
After all, it wasn't just these people—even this whole city had been created by Lu Simiao.
At this mont, Lu Simiao looked at Xu Zii.
His laughter sounded like mockery, and finally, when his voice fell silent—
he then asked, "If I'm not mistaken, that freak behind you should be the Demons, right?"
"The Demons that destroyed the entire Bliss Sect back then."
"Yes," Zimo nodded slightly.
"Why does this monster obey your every word? Don't tell these Demons were created by you?" Lu Simiao asked.
"I rely know his weakness, that's all," Xu Zii said.
"Nothing in this world becos powerful for no reason.
If it can be strong, naturally it can be weak as well—everything depends on the desire in your heart."
Tears seeped out from the corners of Lu Simiao's eyes.
"If… if you could have appeared a bit earlier back then, maybe the Bliss Sect's tragedy could have been avoided."
"You were just too greedy," Xu Zii said.
"You hard so many people of the Bliss Sect, but I know that was not your true intention."
"So that was groundless evil."
"Yet here in this Demon City, you heal the sick, save people, and persuade them toward goodness—this is the goodness that is truly your own will."
"So I've co to take your goodness."
Xu Zii explained.
Good and evil were never so clearly divided; or rather, the world is neither black nor white.
It is a finely wrought shade of gray.
This gray intoxicates people, making it hard to resist once you're within it.
Because you, I, and the Myriad of Living Beings are all the sa.
Just then, Lu Simiao's gaze turned toward the Demons.
He discovered that sothing was off with the Demons' condition.
He saw the black qi around the Demons growing thicker and thicker.
Within that black qi, there were even deathly howls of Wronged Souls mixed in.
"It wants to break free of your control," Lu Simiao shouted hastily.
But at this mont, the Demons suddenly burst out laughing.
Its voice pierced straight into the clouds, and its evil aura surged to the heavens.
He stared at Xu Zii with hatred.
And said, "Did you really think you could control ?"
"Just now I had only just awakened, and my strength hadn't recovered yet, that's all."
"You tried to use greed to control , but all I have to do is not absorb your greed."
"I've killed so many people; the greed I've stored is in the hundreds of millions. Why would I be short of yours?"
Watching the Demons recover his forr strength, Lu Simiao frowned slightly.
His face ugly, he said, "It's over. The Sealing was destroyed by you. Now that these Demons are unbound, I fear there will never again be a day of peace."
"No hurry. Since I could let him out, naturally I never put him in my eyes to begin with."
Xu Zii said.
"I took one portion of your goodness, so of course I'm willing to resolve a knot in your heart as well."
"Do you want to kill these Demons?"
Hearing this, Lu Simiao clenched his fists slightly and replied without hesitation, "Yes. I dream of killing it."
Because the Bliss Sect had been destroyed by these Demons; his relatives and fellow disciples all died before his eyes.
This was Lu Simiao's Heart Demon.
It had tornted him for so many years, so all these years he'd been doing good deeds to atone.
Even though he knew the dead cannot be brought back to life; no matter how he tried to atone, the dead would never revive.
But people, after all, always need so comfort in their hearts.
...…
"Then I'll help you," Xu Zii answered.
"Brat, that look of yours really pisses off," the Demons looked at Xu Zii and said with a grim expression.
"Do you think you can control everything?"
"Then I'll kill you first."
As the Demons' words fell, he stretched out his right hand.
With a thunderous roar of overwhelming power—
a Mi Tian giant hand descended from the sky.
But as that Mi Tian giant hand approached the top of Xu Zii's head, it could no longer move even half an inch closer.
"Ant, do you still not realize your end has co?"
Xu Zii asked calmly.
He simply waved his hand, and in an instant, a pressure descended from the void, directly pinning the Demons in place.
"Your existence is sothing Heaven and Earth never permitted. Today you die, and all will rejoice."
Seeing the Demons struggling to no avail no matter how he thrashed, Lu Simiao was dumbfounded.
He had never imagined that the Demons, so troubleso for him, would be unable to muster even a shred of resistance before Xu Zii.
"Kill him. He's right in front of you. I'll give you the chance to kill him," Xu Zii said.
Lu Simiao's hands trembled slightly.
In truth, he had wanted to kill the Demons before, but unfortunately he lacked the ability.
In the end, after exhausting all his strength, he had only managed to Sealing the other party.
Now that his long-cherished wish of so many years was about to be fulfilled, his whole body began to tremble.
Lu Simiao's hand produced a long blade stained with blood.
This blade was sothing he had found back then in the Sea of Blood of the Bliss Sect; it was the personal blade of the one dearest to him.
His loved one had never killed anyone; this blade was more like an ornant.
But later, the blade sank into the Sea of Blood and was completely dyed blood-red.
Over so many years, the blood on the blade had long since dried, yet Lu Simiao had never thought of washing the blood off.
Because whenever he saw this blade, it reminded him not to forget what happened back then.
At this mont, watching Lu Simiao walk toward him step by step—
the Demons roared incessantly.
He was neither invincible nor immortal.
In truth, his existence was ford entirely from greed; once Xu Zii had seized control of that greed, he had beco incomparably fragile.
Perhaps this one stroke could end his life.
"Don't co over here. Don't co near ."
The Demons roared.
In that mont he no longer looked like a demon, but instead like a victim.
"Back then, when you killed those people, did they wear the sa expression?" Lu Simiao couldn't help asking.
As he spoke, the blood-stained blade in his hand slashed down hard.
Amid ear-piercing screams, the sound gradually weakened.
All grievances, all hatred, dissipated completely between Heaven and Earth with a breeze that blew past.
...…
Xu Zii stretched out his hand and collected the goodness belonging to Lu Simiao bit by bit.
This was the last of the goodness he needed to gather.
After this, he could create the Endless Hell.
After that, he told Lu Simiao about Liu Ruyan, hoping the latter would help her.
From then on, the Demon City vanished without a trace.
Perhaps for Lu Simiao, he would have a new life that belonged to him.
This place without rules would also cease to exist forever.
When Xu Zii left, Liu Ruyan knelt and kowtowed in the direction he had departed.
eting Xu Zii had been a stroke of fortune for her.
Otherwise she couldn't imagine what her end would have been.
Perhaps she would have beco just a piece of skin on the Moon-picking Fairy's face.
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