"Master... please, save my daughters, please save them... I can't unlock this Heavenly Lock. Once I do, they'll merge with me as one! I can't let them die..." Xuan Qingqing knelt in the void, her face full of pleading.
The woman's expression darkened as she said, "You developed feelings for a mortal immortal and bore children. Have you forgotten your duty to protect all living beings beneath Heaven? Do you know how many lives will perish because of this? Don't they have parents? Wives, husbands, and children of their own? You're merely an artifact spirit—how dare you learn selfishness!"
The woman's words left Xuan Qingqing unable to answer a single word. Yet she simply couldn't bring herself to sacrifice her daughters, so she immediately burst into sobs. "Master... my two children already possess intelligence and minds of their own. They've even found people they like. Even if I died a hundred times, it wouldn't be enough to atone for my sins. But how could I make my two children follow me to their deaths at a time like this?"
My heart also seized. Xuan Qingqing wasn't wrong, and neither was the woman. One was doing it for her small family, the other for the greater whole. What fault did either of them have?
But the world was simply this complicated. Whenever you tried to handle things simply and brutally, enormous resistance would inevitably arise. I was one such source of resistance myself. I couldn't sacrifice an individual for the greater good, and if I were asked to sacrifice myself to save this world, I would hesitate too. Needless to say, I couldn't watch the people around me die and remain unmoved.
"Senior... I think she's right. How about we think of another solution? For example, use another method to unlock