#530 - Mortals, after all, are like grass (4000 words)

Wang Shenghan turned around and looked at Xiao Mochi with a smile: “Mo Chi, you still came back.”

“Shenghan, what exactly is going on?”

Xiao Mochi looked at his good friend with whom he spent day and night, his brows furrowed, his expression a bit heavy.

From Wang Shenghan's body, Xiao Mochi felt an extremely ominous aura.

This feeling was similar to that of the Black Eagle City Lord just now.

“It’s nothing, I just left some backup plans, if it weren’t for these backup plans I made, we would all be doomed, but I just didn’t want you to see it.” Wang Shenghan sighed.

“What backup plan? The pill in Shenghan's hand is…” Xiao Mochi looked at Wang Shenghan, cold sweat already breaking out on his forehead.

“Oh, you mean this.”

Wang Shenghan spread out his hand, and a golden pill floated up from Wang Shenghan's hand.

“This pill is the one that the Black Eagle City Lord and the Rouge Sect Master wanted to refine. Since so many people in Black Eagle City have already died, then naturally I can't waste the lives of the Black Eagle City people.

Even if they die, they have to die with value.

So I simply took the opportunity to refine them into pills.

Mo Chi, do you think I did something wrong?”

Wang Shenghan's tone was so matter-of-fact.

“But those people haven’t died yet, many of them could have survived!” Xiao Mochi's eyes flickered, he felt that his outlook on life and values had been greatly impacted.

It was as if at this moment, Xiao Mochi suddenly didn't recognize his good friend, Shenghan had become frightening.

Wang Shenghan still just smiled faintly: “Mo Chi, although the Black Eagle City Lord did some very beastly things, he was right about one thing, ordinary people and us are no longer the same kind of people, they should be sacrificed when they need to be sacrificed, otherwise, it's just a woman's kindness.”

Xiao Mochi clenched his fists tightly, he still couldn't believe that his friend would say such things: “Shenghan! Do you know what you are saying? Could it be that you have been possessed by a demon?!”

“I am not possessed by a demon, in fact, this has always been the real me, I have always thought so.” Wang Shenghan shook his head, “Whether it is you, or Xiao Liu, or Wen Mo, the three of you are really too idealistic, but this world is not as simple as you think.”

Taking a deep breath, Wang Shenghan raised his head and looked at this vast sky: “Years ago, I came to Bailu Academy to study, you should have been very puzzled at that time, why did I come so late?

At that time, I did encounter some things.

Before going to Bailu Academy, I once traveled the world, and I passed by a city.

I met a city lord.

That city was not big, not even as big as Black Eagle City.

That city did not belong to any dynasty, and they did a business, which was to sell the people in the city.

Most of the people were sold to the sects.

Those with talent were accepted as disciples by the sects, thus embarking on the path of cultivating immortality.

Those without talent were taken by the sects to be used as medicinal guides for refining pills, or as slaves to do hard labor, or for sacrifices.

In the eyes of those sects, mortals were no different from pigs, cattle, chickens, and ducks.

It's just that these 'pigs, cattle, chickens, and ducks' can talk, and they are more valuable, and they can also give birth to more valuable 'pigs, cattle, chickens, and ducks'.

At that time, I wanted to rescue them.

The realm of that city lord was not high either, not much different from mine.

But I had a lot of magic weapons on me, so it wouldn't be difficult to destroy that city lord.

I did it at that time too.

I killed that city lord and gave the people of that city freedom.

But guess what.”

As he spoke, a helpless smile appeared on the corner of Wang Shenghan's mouth.

“Do you think I rescued them? In fact, I didn't!”

Wang Shenghan's tone was filled with incomparable disappointment.

“At that time, I told them that the city lord was dead and they were all free, but they hated me, scolded me for meddling and ruining their livelihood.

Later I found out.

This city was too remote because of its geographical location, and the surrounding forests were full of magical beasts. Almost all the supplies needed to be sent from the outside world. It was almost a life-and-death situation for them to leave here to buy supplies outside.

So they voluntarily chose this path.

They were willing to be the livestock of those immortals!”

“Do you think they are right or wrong?” Wang Shenghan asked Xiao Mochi.

“. . .” Xiao Mochi was speechless.

In this kind of thing, who is right and who is wrong, Xiao Mochi couldn't give an answer for a while.

Wang Shenghan didn't seem to expect Xiao Mochi to give an answer directly, but sighed and continued:

“As a human being, one naturally does not want one's flesh and blood to be used for refining pills, and does not want one's family to be bought by sects to be slaves.

But as a human being, they want to live.

They just want to live.

What's wrong with a person wanting to live?

Those so-called cultivators seem to have given people a chance to live, but in fact, if those sects were to eradicate the surrounding magical beasts, wouldn't it be difficult?

What they want is just to use this kind of place to raise these people, just like raising those domestic animals.

Mo Chi, this world is much dirtier than you and I think.”

As soon as he finished speaking, Wang Shenghan swallowed the bright red pill in his hand.

The moment Wang Shenghan swallowed the pill, the aura of the whole person exploded violently!

The sky suddenly tore open like silk, and the ink clouds surged like an upside-down sea. Nine tornado-shaped cloud pillars hung down from the void. The strong wind wrapped in thunder uprooted the vegetation within a ten-mile radius—those cloud pillars were not condensed by ordinary water vapor. Each pillar was flowing with ancient gilded runes, which completely emptied the spiritual energy of the entire sky and turned it into a liquid spiritual waterfall pouring down!

Wang Shenghan's green shirt fluttered like a flag, and three thousand strands of black hair stood upside down in the spiritual pressure storm.

As the ninth cloud pillar slammed into the Tianling, ten thousand golden rays suddenly burst out from his pores.

The bluestone slabs under Xiao Mochi's feet had already turned into powder, but the giant palm protruding from the cloud vortex on the dome was a hundred feet wide, and liquid thunder was surging in the palm lines.

“Shenghan! Do you want to kill me?!”

Xiao Mochi was shocked.

Just now, Shenghan's palm was definitely a deadly attack!

Wang Shenghan raised the corner of his mouth: “Mo Chi, isn't it obvious that I want to kill you? Although I have refined this pill, it needs the perfection of the Confucian scholars' awe-inspiring spirit, so Mo Chi! You have to sacrifice yourself!

Moreover, Mo Chi! I can't let the dean and the others know about what I've done!

If you hadn't seen it, I might not have attacked you!

Why did you come back?”

“Boom boom boom!”

As Wang Shenghan's words fell, Wang Shenghan slapped Xiao Mochi again and again.

Xiao Mochi kept dodging, and several times he almost lost his soul!

“Boom!”

Above the sky, thunder rumbled.

Bolts of lightning kept shuttling from the clouds.

Lightning struck Xiao Mochi crazily.

The Taoist sounds rolling in Wang Shenghan's throat actually condensed into substance in the void, and each word turned into a Xuanbing palm print ten feet in radius.

Seventy-two layers of palm shadows wrapped in Gang Sha's aura. The bluestone ground exploded into thousands of ice crystals when the cold wave passed by. Those suspended ice shards actually turned into soul-chasing prisms under the urging of the law, refracting countless frost-white sword qi!

Xiao Mochi swiped his eyebrows with two fingers and a sword. Every time a shadow shattered, a **** starburst would burst open, tearing a path of life in the ice prism formation.

The dome suddenly exploded with nine layers of thunder rings, and purple-gold lightning was like the claws of an ancient Yinglong.

Those thunders actually twisted into prisoner runes in mid-air, turning into thirty-six thunder-fire cages to trap Xiao Mochi within a ten-foot radius!

Wang Shenghan formed the Taiyi Thunder Seal with both hands, and the tribulation thunder urged by the Yu Pu realm's coercion already carried the Taoist rhyme of the tribulation period.

Xiao Mochi held the Tianwen Collection in his hand and floated up seventy-two statues of sages. When he recited “A gentleman lives in ease to await his destiny,” the remaining awe-inspiring spirit condensed into golden hexagrams and floated around his body, actually propping up a three-foot pure land in the thunder prison. However, every time a thunderbolt struck down, a wisp of golden blood would overflow from the corner of his mouth—the previously overdrawn meridians were already cracked like drought land.

Wang Shenghan stepped down on the thunderclouds, and behind him appeared the unique “Heaven and Earth Furnace” phenomenon of Yu Pu cultivators.

In that bronze cauldron swallowing the sun and the moon, liquid spiritual energy poured down like the Milky Way, reflecting him like a god.

On the other hand, the sage's golden brilliance in Xiao Mochi's arms was now flickering like a candle in the wind, and every broken hexagram brought about the crisp sound of bones breaking.

After that great battle, the spiritual power in Xiao Mochi's body had almost been exhausted.

And Wang Shenghan entered the Yu Pu realm, and the brand-new realm made Wang Shenghan's spiritual power extremely abundant!

“Mo Chi! I am very happy to be with you all these years, but you are too naive. It's okay for Wen Mo, that little girl, to be naive. After all, she is a flower that has not experienced wind and rain.

But you, who came from the Wu Kingdom, and Xiao Liu, who has a bad background, why are you still so naive?”

Thunder kept gathering in Wang Shenghan's hands, forming a long whip.

One whip struck down!

Every whip carried the power of thunder.

Xiao Mochi dodged, and the long whip drew streaks on the ground, and streams of ghostly blue thunder liquid flowed in the streaks.

If Xiao Mochi didn't dodge, he would be whipped on Xiao Mochi's body.

The intense pain made Xiao Mo Chi grimace, his brows tightly furrowed. Even before the blood could flow from Xiao Mo Chi's whipped skin, it was already charred.

Wang Shenghan raised his right hand, holding the Thunder Whip high, the Thunder Whip pointing straight into the air like a plumb line.

Streaks of lightning gathered in Wang Shenghan's hand.

"Mo Chi, if you can withstand this whip of mine, then I will return with you and accept the Dean's punishment."

The long whip in Wang Shenghan's hand became increasingly bright, like a thin line leading straight to the clouds. After the lightning materialized, it resembled strands of silk condensed into thin threads.

"Boom!"

A thunderclap echoed from the sky again, several times louder than before.

It was as if the heavens and earth were about to be shattered by this thunder!

Xiao Mo Chi stood on the ground, the lightning illuminating his profile.

A drizzle began to fall from the sky, dampening Xiao Mo Chi's body.

Looking at Wang Shenghan, Xiao Mo Chi knew he had no choice.

If he wanted to bring him back to the academy, he could only win against him.

Xiao Mo Chi was even more aware.

In his current state, the probability of winning against Shenghan was practically zero.

"Huff!"

Xiao Mo Chi took a deep breath.

The Heavenly Question Collection opened in Xiao Mo Chi's hand, and Xiao Mo Chi reached into the Heavenly Question Collection, drawing out a golden longsword!

The golden longsword emitted a dazzling light.

Xiao Mo Chi slashed the sword towards Wang Shenghan!

At the same time, the Thunder Whip in Wang Shenghan's hand also lashed down towards Xiao Mo Chi.

Xiao Mo Chi knew that he would undoubtedly die. Whether in terms of realm difference or spiritual power, he was far too inferior to Shenghan.

"Boom!"

Golden light collided with blue lightning.

The dust and sand from the ruins rose several meters high.

When the dust and sand settled, and visibility returned, Xiao Mo Chi stood blankly in place, his eyes shaking, looking at the front in disbelief.

The golden longsword in Xiao Mo Chi's hand pierced through Wang Shenghan's chest.

The Thunder Whip in Wang Shenghan's hand left an extremely deep fissure behind Xiao Mo Chi, but it did not injure Xiao Mo Chi in the slightest.

The golden light dissipated, the golden longsword disappeared, and Wang Shenghan's lips only held a faint smile.

Wang Shenghan walked towards Xiao Mo Chi step by step.

Finally, Wang Shenghan came to Xiao Mo Chi's front, reached out his hand, and gently touched Xiao Mo Chi's brow.

Xiao Mo Chi wanted to resist, but his body could not move at all.

He only felt the boundless righteousness and the literary Dao's fortune constantly entering his body.

"Shenghan, you!" Xiao Mo Chi knew what Wang Shenghan was about to do.

After he consumed that pill, he did not fully refine it, but used his own boundless righteousness to wrap it, eliminate the evil aura of the side effects, and then transmit it to himself!

"After the battle with the Black Hawk City Lord and the others, I originally didn't have much lifespan left. Giving this pill directly to you, you definitely wouldn't be able to accept it. In that case, I will refine it to the end and then give it to you."

Wang Shenghan smiled.

"You really have talent. You may not know, but many times when I helped the Dean with work, the Dean lamented that you may be the most talented person in Confucianism these years."

"But Mo Chi, what I said before was all from the bottom of my heart."

"What do you say this world is like?"

"What are mortals?"

"Don't be naive anymore."

"Mo Chi, this is the world."

"A world where mortals are like dogs and cultivators are like gods."

"You are too kind."

"But Mo Chi, this world is not so kind."

"I don't know how you will walk next, Mo Chi."

"But Mo Chi, never, ever, be foolish."

"Mortals, after all, are like weeds."

In the Martial Capital Imperial City, Xiao Mo Chi raised his head, the brush and inkstone floating beside Xiao Mo Chi, forming a thunder barrier.

"Shenghan, do you really think mortals are like weeds?"

Xiao Mo Chi waved his hand.

Above the firmament, rolling thunder, all fell.