#1532 - Chapter 1532 The Evil of Survival
“I know these words might not mean anything to you.”
“But I still need to explain.”
The Venerable One stood beside Wu Wei, calmly watching him order the extermination of the remaining living beings within the small world, and continued.
“Initially, I myself believed that the Endless Abyss was a pure evil.”
“After all, I couldn't see any moral constraints, any sense of propriety, or any so-called justice in the creatures of the Endless Abyss.”
“But when I helped the Abyss Master guard our world for a time, during that long period, I suddenly realized that my thinking was too limited.”
“Because I discovered that whether it's the creatures of the Abyss or my angels,”
“They are all living beings.”
“This is undeniable.”
“And they all have their own desires to maintain.”
“You might say, do angels protect mortals because they are good?”
“Impossible!”
The Venerable One shook his head, denying this idea.
“Do you know why?”
“Because these angels protect mortals for a reason.”
“The so-called angels are just nascent gods.”
“The reason they protect mortals is simply because they need to draw enough faith from them.”
“Without faith, they would also die.”
“You might not understand if I put it this way.”
“Let me be blunt, the angels in my Heavenly Land all need to feed on the faith of mortals.”
“Therefore, their protection of mortals is essentially to satisfy their own need to survive.”
“This is also a desire, a desire not to die.”
The Venerable One paused, seemingly remembering something, and smiled bitterly.
He had just recalled the words the Abyss Master had said to him, and how he, at that time, was as foolish as those angels.
Perhaps, the rebellious angels back then weren't rebelling against him, but against the self that had betrayed his ideals.
That foolish self who hadn't seen the truth!
“This behavior is actually equivalent to eating.”
“They consume mortal faith and raise mortals like livestock.”
“And the creatures of the Endless Abyss also need to eat in order to survive.”
“Although the creatures of the Endless Abyss have been called evil from the beginning,”
“Their evil deeds, when exposed, are nothing more than wanting to survive.”
“But the problem arises.”
“Lord Abyss Lord, can you say that there is any essential difference between demons who constantly slaughter other living beings to survive and angels?”
Hearing what the Venerable One said, he glanced at the battlefield in the distance.
At this moment, on the battlefield, a little demon was excitedly gnawing on the corpse of a chaotic creature.
Greedy, it even actively burrowed into the abdominal cavity of the chaotic creature, devouring it, completely disregarding the blood and internal organs covering its body.
“Uh.”
“There is a difference.”
“At least the angels' actions aren't this disgusting, right?”
Wu Wei pointed at the disgusting little demon and said.
The Venerable One looked at the little demon: ......
“Ahem.”
“I'm talking about the essence!”
The Venerable One, exasperated by the Abyss Lord's stupidity, said helplessly.
“The essence of the two is no different!”
“Sigh.....”
After taking a breath, the Venerable One continued helplessly.
“Which is to say, if you think that demons are immoral because of their predatory behavior,”
“Then you can't think that the angels' behavior is noble!”
“Because the essence of the two is exactly the same.”
“Demons hunt the flesh of mortals and shatter their souls for their own survival.”
“Angels protect the safety of mortals and comfort their souls, also for their own survival.”
“The survival of a living being will naturally give birth to 'evil,' which is an undeniable fact.”
“It is precisely because of this reason that I will not express any opposition to your choice!”
“Lord Abyss Lord.”
The Venerable One said, bowing to the Abyss Lord Wu Wei.
“In fact, you are just helping us make a choice that we all yearn to make, but are unwilling to do.”
“You have proactively taken on the evil of us warriors, proactively bearing the evil deeds we want to survive on your shoulders.”
“Chaotic creatures want to survive.”
“Why aren't we the same?”
“It's just that our path to survival requires these chaotic creatures to pave the way!”
“We, the creatures of the old era, want to survive in an era that doesn't belong to us, then....”
“This is our greatest evil.”
“This is the evil of survival, but it is also a necessary evil.”
The Venerable One smiled.
“But, although these evils are real,”
“Our warriors are unwilling to bear this kind of evil, and even our strong ones are unwilling to bear this kind of evil.”
“Because we are....”
“Not as pure as the creatures of the Abyss!”
“We are all hypocrites!”
“We need someone, an existence, to proactively bear these sins for us, because only in this way can we live without any psychological pressure.”
“And you have proactively borne this evil for us!”
“In this regard, you are as great as the Abyss Lord and the Abyss Master of the past.”
“No matter how they claim that these two are essentially different from you, you have indeed achieved consistency with them in bearing this burden.”
“You are a qualified leader.”
The Venerable One said to Wu Wei with a smile.
“Thank you, Lord Abyss Lord.”
“I thank you for your contribution on behalf of all the living beings who are unwilling to perish.”
Facing the Venerable One's gratitude, Wu Wei silently shook his head.
In fact, he had never thought so much.
At least, he hadn't thought so meticulously.
He just.....
Did what an Abyss Lord should do.....
However, just as Wu Wei was still engaged in this philosophical exchange with the Venerable One, on the other side, the vanguard of the legion finally broke through the blockade of the chaotic small worlds and continued to advance.
But because of this, they saw an extremely strange existence.
“This...”
“This is!”
