This Was True Defiance of Heaven

"Arrogant!"

Hearing Di Wei's words, a Mohist School disciple abruptly rose to his feet. Behind him, a mechanized puppet gleamed with mysterious light, Dao Patterns flowing around his body. "If we follow your reasoning, once war begins, all living beings will be cast into misery and heaven and earth will grieve together. If this peace is bought at the price of the Primordial Wilderness shattering and the myriad races withering away, how is it any different from the demonic path? This is false peace!"

On the platform, the Aura of Warfare around Di Wei immediately surged into the heavens.

Behind him appeared the phantom of battlefields across the heavens, with countless immortals and gods waging war within them. His voice boomed like thunder. "Absurd! Do you know of the Kalpa of Creation? Do you know of the Dragon-Phoenix First Tribulation? Heaven and earth, too, were reforged and reborn amid slaughter! In an age of great contention, seeking a precarious peace is the path to death! Only by sweeping away the cosmos with supreme military might and reestablishing order can one forge true peace that will endure for all ages! This is the cycle of the Heavenly Dao, an unavoidable growing pain!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a Confucian School student stood and questioned him. A phantom of the Spring and Autumn Annals appeared above his head, every word radiating golden light. "The Heavenly Dao values life, and sages nurture all things through benevolence and righteousness. Wherever military force passes, spiritual veins collapse and destiny scatters. This is defying heaven! Even if you gain billions of miles of territory, with karma wrapped around you and destiny turning against you, can you withstand the Heavenly Dao's reckoning?"

Immediately afterward, an Agricultural School disciple held a nine-eared stalk of grain, and boundless