Right and Wrong

"Chief Steward Wen."

A trace of grief flashed in Liu Yuji's eyes as he looked at Wen Rulong, who had been killed by a single sword strike.

But then, a resolute determination to die for their cause emerged.

Completely disregarding the gap between himself and the Gu Jinlai, he launched a desperate attack on him.

"Perhaps, in your own eyes, you are a loyal person who is unwavering in his loyalty and willing to give his life for the righteousness in his heart. Even after you die, people will praise you for your righteousness after they learn about your deeds."

Looking at his Bright Red -red Karma from Gu Jinlai: "But in my eyes, you are a wicked and unforgivable demon who aids and abets evil. Even the Demonic Beasts roaming the wilderness are ten or a hundred times stronger than you."

Stop putting on airs!

Liu Yuji roared, "What do you know?! Steward Wen saved my life! He gave me my life! If it weren't for him, I would have frozen to death on that snowy night when I was being oppressed and my family was destroyed!"

"It is precisely because of people like you who do not understand right and wrong and do not follow reason that those who occupy high positions and do nothing have the opportunity to raise people who help them to do evil under the guise of loyalty and righteousness. These people help them to do all kinds of evil, which leads to more families being torn apart and people being destroyed."

Looking at him from the Gu Jinlai: "These people, who are left to wander the streets and freeze to death in the wilderness, are then subdued by his charity and continue to persecute more people until the order of the whole world collapses."

Liu Yuji, whose face was resolute and who had a "nothing to lose" mentality, was startled.

"I advocate fighting violence with violence, but I do not advocate the abuse of violence! A life for a life, that's a matter of course! If you were only seeking revenge against the person who destroyed your family, I could spare your life. But now that you've joined the ranks of perpetrators and are committing evil everywhere, no matter what your initial reasons or motives were..."

From Gu Jinlai, his figure strode forward, his nearly five-meter-tall body casting a suffocating shadow.

The overwhelming aura of death instantly brought Liu Yuji, whose mind had been shaken, back to his senses.

"No! No! This isn't my fault!"

Liu Yuji roared furiously, "If I don't help Steward Wen and earn merit, I won't get the top-tier cultivation method, I won't get valuable resources, and without Cultivation Method resources, I won't be able to cultivate to the Spirit Refining! If I can't cultivate to the Spirit Refining stage, I can't take revenge... This isn't my fault! I..."

"Then be prepared to pay the price for your actions!"

Before Liu Yuji could finish speaking, Gu Jinlai had already reached out and grabbed his head. The hurricane that accompanied his attack shattered the void, causing Liu Yuji to roar in resentment. He gathered his True Qi and poured it into his sword, then slashed at Gu Jinlai's descending giant hand with all his might.

"Bang!"

The Gang Qi trembled, and waves of energy scattered in all directions.

The sword energy unleashed by Liu Yuji was directly shattered into dust by the shockwave of "Ten Thousand Swords Return to the Source - A Thousand Autumns" used by people from Gu Jinlai.

He captured it with a single palm strike.

Relying on his understanding of the artistic conception, he clearly perceived all the changes in Liu Yuji's sword techniques and body movements. Despite Liu Yuji's somewhat desperate resistance, he firmly held his head in his grasp.

"I... I..."

The resolute determination he had shown at the beginning was gone from Liu Yuji's eyes; now they were filled with fear, and he opened his mouth as if to say something.

However...

Gu Jinlai, the five fingers have exerted force.

It's like popping a bubble wrap.

"Bang!"

The sound stopped abruptly.

I wasted a little time on Liu Yuji...

It's not exactly a waste.

Even a person with Red Name can be greeted by a clear light.

His gaze shifted, continuing to look in the other direction.

Over there, Xie Shanhe, who had been fleeing, seemed to have changed.

Seemingly having learned that reinforcements from Gu Jinlai had finally arrived, Nie Shisan, the leader of the Star Heaven Alliance, who had been hiding in Star Curtain City, and the elders of the Spirit Refining finally appeared and stopped Xie Shanhe, who was severely injured.

Seeing this, Gu Jinlai have never considered it a waste.

He strode forward, picked up the Cheng Ying sword he had thrown, and with a few quick bursts of speed, soon reached the outer edge of the battlefield.

His arrival immediately threw Xie Shanhe into disarray, and he shouted, "Lord Gu, our Xie Family is willing to pledge allegiance to Lord Gu, and from now on we will follow Lord Gu's lead..."

Gu Jinlai arrived at the outskirts of the battlefield without the slightest hesitation.

In his confusion at his arrival, he threw the Cheng Ying sword in his hand.

"Call out!"

The sword's edge flashed swiftly.

The sword blade pierced the air!

The Cheng Ying Sword, like a cannonball fired from its barrel, roared through the air and crashed into the battlefield where Nie Shisan, the leader of the Xing Tian Alliance, and three Spirit Refining True Person were fighting.

Xie Shanhe tried to stop it, but the power of Cheng Ying Sword was never diminished by anyone blocking it.

Amidst the spray of blood mist, the Xie Family patriarch was pulverized like tofu, his entire body almost crushed to pieces by the immense force carried by the rapidly spinning Cheng Ying sword.

This ruthless and devastating method of slaughter shocked Nie Shisan and the Star Heaven Alliance's Spirit Refining True Person.

Nie Shisan, who was in the lead, immediately stepped forward and cupped his hands in thanks. "Lord Gu! Thank you for your help, Lord Gu!"

Gu Jinlai nodded. "Now is not the time for communication. Let's kill those experts in the Spirit Refining and Core Forming Formation realms they brought first and restore order to Star Curtain City."

"Yes."

Nie Shisan agreed, "I am willing to obey the orders of the Ancient Heavenly Lord."

"Then let the Star Alliance blockade the city and prevent them from escaping."

Gu Jinlai.

While chasing Wen Rulong and Zhang Wuliang, he swept across half of Star Curtain City and had already sensed more than a dozen Bright Red -red Karma lights.

After instructing Nie Shisan to seal off the city, he wasted no more time and quickly charged toward the direction where the Karma light had been.

When a place loses order, evil will proliferate at an extremely rapid pace.

Gu Jinlai, it has been unclear whether the large number of heinous criminals among the experts in Spirit Refining, Core Forming, and Gang Condensing brought by Wen Rulong, Zhang Wuliang, and others, or whether they indulged their desires after occupying Star Curtain City, thus adding a great deal of evil.

In short, among these cultivators who should theoretically belong to the lawful camp of the State Lord's Mansion, the proportion of those with Karma as thick as blood is surprisingly high.

They are comparable to the Three Great Families in Lingxiao City who used human pills to collude with demons and Demonic Beasts.

Of these, more than twenty were personally killed by the people Gu Jinlai.

Not to mention the many powerful figures who died at the hands of Gu Chifeng and others, as well as the counterattack experts of the Starry Sky Alliance.

Furthermore, since the Star Alliance was scattered, although Gu Jinlai ordered them to seal off the city, the city could not be completely sealed off by the high-level experts of the Gang Condensing and Core Forming stages. Of the more than 400 people, more than 100 still escaped.

Half of the Spirit Refining True Person with a high percentage of Red Name escaped.

Otherwise, those who commit heinous crimes would likely have to pay an additional 50%.

Star Alliance.

Shao Yaoguang, Zhan Hongying, and others surrounded Nie Shisan, their eyes filled with the joy of surviving a calamity.

Ahead, a group of people also hurried over.

Seeing that Nie Shisan was safe and sound, he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Brother Yi, it's so good that you're alright."

"Qingqing, what brings you here?"

Nie Shisan looked at the newcomer and said something.

Zhan Hongying, who was standing to the side, said, "After I sensed something was wrong, I immediately had my spies use a special method to send a message to Miss Nie, who was in Lingxiao City, so that she could ask Gu Tianjun for help... That's why Gu Tianjun was able to arrive in time."

At this point, he turned to Nie Qingqing and said, "Qingqing deserves much credit for persuading Gu Tianjun so quickly that we were able to get out of this predicament so fast."

The Spirit Refining Elders, including Shao Yaoguang, nodded in deep agreement.

"You flatter me. I was able to persuade the Ancient Heavenly Lord because he is a man of great principle and understands the principle of 'if the lips are gone, the teeth will be cold.' That's why, as soon as I spoke, he immediately ordered his troops to be gathered and head straight for our Star Curtain City..."

As Nie Qingqing finished speaking, she seemed to have thought of something and fell silent.

"If the lips are gone, the teeth will be cold... It seems that our decision to ally with the Ancient Heavenly Lord was indeed the wisest one."

Nie Shisan said.

Zhan Hongying and the others nodded in agreement. "If Gu Tianjun ever encounters any difficulties and asks us for help, we will definitely send troops to assist him immediately."

"Yes! As a staunch ally of Lingxiao City, the Star Alliance will share both glory and ruin from this day forward!"

"I will remember this favor. In the future, if you ever need anything from me, please just ask."

Several True Person of Spirit Refining echoed this sentiment.

Nie Shisan, however, seemed to notice that Nie Qingqing's sudden silence was unusual, and couldn't help but ask, "Qingqing, judging from your expression, has something happened?"

Nie Qingqing glanced at Nie Shisan, hesitated for a moment, and then said, "I'm afraid even if Gu Tianjun is really in trouble, he won't need our help."

Why?

Zhan Hongying asked, puzzled.

"Because..."

Nie Qingqing took a deep breath. "With the size of our Starry Sky Alliance, High Antiquity Tianjun at all."

"It can not be helped?"

Nie Shisan, Zhan Hongying, Shao Yaoguang, and a series of other Spirit Transformation and Spirit Refining True Person exchanged glances.

After a long while, one of the elders, Xiong Tianxia, who had achieved the Spirit Refining for over forty years, finally said, "Although our Star Heaven Alliance suffered heavy losses in this battle, we still have ten Spirit Refining Divine Realm cultivators, plus Alliance Leader Nie, a Nascent Spirit Transformation cultivator, still alive. If you say we are weaker than Lingxiao City, we will admit it, but if you say we can no longer help Lingxiao City at all, I do not believe it."

The others nodded in agreement.

They were all True Person of Spirit Refining.

Such a person, as long as they don't face Spirit Transformation cultivator, would be a giant in any city.

In some lower states, it would be easy for one person to occupy a city and govern a million people.

Their words naturally carried extraordinary weight.

"One Spirit Transformation and ten Spirit Refining... they certainly outnumber us, but how do they compare to the three Nascent Spirit Transformation Wen Rulong, Zhang Wuliang, and Xie Shanhe from before?"

Nie Qingqing said.

The group exchanged glances, somewhat embarrassed.

How?

As you saw, didn't you?

This girl, she always brings up the very thing she doesn't want to talk about.

"Cough cough..."

Xiong Tianxia coughed and said, "Spirit Transformation... wielding the advantage of a flying sword, is not easy to get along with..."

"If he's not even as good as Spirit Transformation, then what about Primordial Spirit True Lord?"

Nie Qingqing continued to press for answers.

Primordial Spirit True Lord?

If any Primordial Spirit True Lord sets their sights on them, the Star Heaven Alliance's higher-ups will be wiped out.

For a time...

No one in the room knew how to answer.