My expression changed drastically. I condensed my Heavenly Eye and looked out over the sea. A high platform resembling a pyramid towered above the water, and at its peak was a massive platform shaped like a vessel. Flames soared from it, their heat blazing straight into the clouds and forming a terrifying vortex of clouds!
The scarlet vortex clouds had gathered from the burning flames. Their aura was far stronger than what had leaked from the sky above the Central Divine Pagoda earlier. If not for the screams rising one after another from below, I might have thought the heavens had split open again.
"My lord, they're burning immortals," Pure Lotus said with absolute calm. My heart clenched, and I sucked in a cold breath—not only at the viciousness of these people, but also at Pure Lotus's attitude toward life.
"Pure Lotus, life should be held in awe, and that includes you. You're alive too. If you were the one placed on that platform, I would worry for you, grieve for you, and save you at all costs. Do you understand?" I said.
"I understand, but Master said there are good and bad people, and the greatest sin is killing living beings. Pure Lotus has killed so many people—would I still be worth saving?" Pure Lotus was young, after all, and she was full of doubts about many things.
"Killing someone also depends on whether they're good or evil. If killing one person can save ten million, then that person must be killed. That's why people say, 'If I do not descend into hell, who will?' You and I kill for the sake of saving more people, so we can't simply call it good or evil. There is no absolute justice, nor absolute evil." I patiently explained this while continuing