Fu Jian silently shut off the communications monitoring and real-time recording.
Since he had spoken directly, Wang Jixuan understood that they no longer needed to communicate by telepathy and could speak openly.
Fu Jian asked, "What did you find down there?"
"A lot of things, including the secret of the Pillar-Class Blade Beast."
Wang Jixuan briefly explained the Blissful Sky Curtain and the frenzied experiments some Spiritual Practitioners had conducted in pursuit of eternal life. Without giving Fu Jian an opening to curse, he continued:
"I'm negotiating with them right now.
"I found a small portion of the Pillar-Class Blade Beast's soul here. It's similar to Galinno, but more advanced. It can be considered one of the true rulers of the Blade Beast Civilization.
"We can't talk for too long. I just wanted to ask your opinion. Should we do this?"
Fu Jian fell silent for several seconds.
"This violates our principles. If we do this, we'll be cooperating with the Blade Beasts to suppress factions within humanity. From the standpoint of personal conscience and justice, I oppose it."
Wang Jixuan said, "All right, then. I won't steer things in that direction. I'll extract some intelligence and come back."
"What I mean is, from the standpoint of personal conscience and justice."
Fu Jian slowly added:
"If a D5 officer, acting for personal reasons, wanted to protect normal human society and took the opportunity to probe how much the three Spiritual Practitioners hidden in the Psionic Capital had recovered, that might also help humanity avert a future extinction crisis."
Wang Jixuan was thoroughly confused.
No, so was it yes or no? Or did he want both?
Wanting both probably wasn't very proper...
Back in the Cultivation World, even great demons could be grand and heroic. Evil was evil to the core,