"So, whenever I drank a drop of starblood, I felt nothing at all. There is a food chain between heaven and earth. Even in the most ordinary forest, fierce beasts eat cattle and sheep, while mortals eat fierce beasts. The essence of the world is that the weak are prey to the strong, maintaining the balance of heaven and earth's laws. Where is there any judgment of good or evil? Do mortals repent for hunting beasts? They do not! As long as you do not lump all humans and ghosts and gods into a single race, but treat them as different races distributed across the food chain, you can understand it easily."
Yumo Xue turned back toward the entrance of Myriadpath Valley and continued, "In many Yangfan-grade and Grottoheaven-grade worlds, mortals breed like cockroaches, excessively consuming stellar sources. This leads to the excessive depletion of stellar sources across the universe. If it is not restrained, who knows when the universe will reach its end and become a dead, silent world without stellar sources? Therefore, as the strongest ghosts and gods at the very top of the universe's food chain, it is the sacred mission bestowed upon us by the laws of the world to eat mortals and refine them. Mortals are mortals precisely because, like cockroaches, they can never be eaten clean. So, to be honest, we Yumo Clan bear a heavy responsibility!"
These words were simply deafening to Yumo Yuan Ni.
It could be said that they opened the door to a new world.
"Th-this... did you realize all this yourself?" Yumo Yuan Ni asked stupidly.
"How could that be?" Yumo Xue laughed mutely. "This is the truth our Yumo Clan has passed down since ancient times, generation after generation. When you refine starblood for the first time, the