"Now you say the devilfolk are innocent."
Bighead laughed.
He had first met Tu Shan Jun in the mortal world, after a war between mortal imperial courts.
It was precisely through such conflict that Tu Shan Jun had smoothly risen from a low-level Qi Refiner to the late stage of Qi Refining, eventually becoming someone even he found daunting.
Of course, Bighead had not yet established his foundation back then. At most, he had reached the great perfection of Qi Refining.
If they had truly fought, he might not have held any advantage.
Even living, breathing people before his eyes could not stir Tu Shan Jun's sympathy, yet devilfolk he had never met made the Soul Banner Devil Lord deem them innocent.
"Could it be that, fellow Daoist, you also came from the Demon Abyss? Given your identity as a Demon King, that would indeed... No, if you truly were a Demon King, you would instead agree." Bighead grew curious.
He truly could not understand why.
"That was indeed a long time ago."
Regret flickered through Tu Shan Jun's eyes. He said gravely, "On the battlefield, each served their own lord. Once they stepped onto the battlefield, they were soldiers, not civilians."
Bighead's eyes rolled as he frowned. "Suppose killing is a grave sin. As a weapon, if your banner master uses the Soul Banner to kill, then the banner master is guilty while you are innocent?"
"So you can unscrupulously make use of your banner masters to achieve your own aims, while escaping the karmic consequences of Heaven's Dao?"
Tu Shan Jun shook his head. "To judge whether a murderer and his weapon are guilty, one must consider whether the weapon possesses spirituality."
"If it possesses no spirituality, it is regarded as a pure weapon."
"If it possesses spirituality,