Dongfang Sansan let out a long breath and broke into a radiant smile.
Her smile was filled with pride and carefree abandon.
"These things that the Guardians use and need were all obtained by our own efforts. And the places where these things are produced and mined are places ordinary people can't enter or even find. Usually, those places are crawling with Demon Beasts, choked with poisonous miasma, and thick with wicked people. You understand."
"So no matter what the people of the world are like, we only need to protect this world. Nothing else matters."
"We Guardians don't owe anyone anything."
"Managing the secular world is the business of the secular dynasties. The Guardians are responsible for suppressing martial artists, because the secular world can't restrain many of them. Clearing out slaughterers like Fang the Butcher is also done to create a better living environment for the people. With a better environment, more Guardians will naturally emerge."
"I know what you're going to ask, and I know what you're thinking even better."
"You want to say that countless people in the world claim the Guardians enjoy the continent's support, sucking the people dry and living off their wealth, and so on? None of that can shake us Guardians in the slightest. We Guardians know ourselves. I already said it: we don't owe anyone anything."
"We do things because we want to do them, not because we took someone else's money to do them. The pride of 'I want to, therefore I do' that this cultivates in the Guardians is our greatest weapon."
Dongfang Sansan said, "We Guardians won't interfere with the tax rates of the secular dynasties. We don't even concern ourselves with the rise and fall of dynasties."
"At most, during certain periods, we'll let someone like Fang