No Foreign Troubles, There Must Be Internal Strife!
"I had always been pondering one question: Why didn't the Li family's ancestors wipe out all the descendants of those martial artists from the Spirit World after occupying Kunxu back then?"
"I thought about this question for more than ten years. It wasn't until over twenty years ago, when Lin Duo came to Kunxu, that one sentence from him jolted me awake as if from a dream."
"Lin Bai, do you know what Lin Duo said back then?"
Li Zhengyi spoke slowly.
Lin Bai shook his head slightly, cupped his fists, and said, "I would be honored to hear the details!"
Li Zhengyi said softly, "Lin Duo said that in this world, there was no absolute right or wrong, nor any absolute righteousness or evil. What was the righteous path and what was the demonic path? They were merely a matter of a martial artist's thoughts!"
"A sage might spend his entire life doing good, yet in the end, he still could not resist that sliver of desire in his heart... With a single thought, he would fall into demonic ways!"
"A demonic fiend who had slaughtered countless people might have his hands drenched in blood, yet he still could not resist that sliver of compassion in his heart!"
"He said that Kunxu was the same!"
"If the Li family's ancestors had flown into a rage back then and, after occupying Kunxu, slaughtered all the martial artists of the tribes, they would have gone too far. Cutting off another's chance at survival was cutting off their own escape route!"
"Moreover, the most important point was..."
"If the Li family's ancestors had slaughtered all the experts of the Kunxu tribes back then, then imagine this: What kind of situation would the Li family