On the surface, few scholars dared openly claim they would defy the law.
Especially during an empire's golden age.
So long as it was not the final years of a dynasty, they obeyed the law openly.
After all, if they did not obey it themselves, how could they demand that others do? The law was the best tool for protecting their families and lives.
Yet they often lacked that awareness.
In reality, they took advantage of the common people's illiteracy—their inability to understand court documents, posted notices, or legal complaints—to twist their meanings.
Thus, whenever the court made any change, these people would distort it and interpret it in whatever way benefited themselves, turning it into a catastrophe for the common folk below.
This was why, once a dynasty reached its middle period, refusing reform meant waiting for death, while reform meant courting death.
Wenren Sheng understood this perfectly.
And he intended to establish his true path in the Primordial World.
The Law Path.
He would make true laws take root in people's hearts.
In the future, let alone immortals, demons, ghosts, divine beings, or Buddhas—even Saints and Hong Jun would fall from their exalted positions if they violated the law.
Of course, Saints were wise.
They would easily understand that these laws were restraints, but also immense protections.
So they would not violate them openly. They would go around them instead.
Just as in the original story, even someone as powerful as Nüwa would not simply strike Di Xin dead with a bolt of lightning.
She first had to ruin his Heavenly Fate and fortune.
Otherwise, karma would entangle her and karmic burden would cling to her, greatly damaging her own exalted status.
The more one was a Saint, the more one understood the ruthlessness and power of the