Watching Yu Changkong fall speechless, the Heavenly Demon Palace Lord continued,
"You needn't think Beitang Gong was so remarkable for founding a great imperial dynasty. Back then, he drew heavily upon the foundations of our Heavenly Demon Palace."
"Setting aside everything else, most of the core methods and essential formulas of Imperial Song Dynasty's Ziwei Flying Star Record were actually given to Beitang Gong by that Heavenly Demon Woman senior of ours. The two of them then painstakingly joined forces to create the Ziwei World-Shining Art, and at the same time deduced the Starry Secret Arts.
"Beitang Gong may not have left behind a single word regarding these past events, but that female senior of our Heavenly Demon Palace recorded everything. Thus, under all heaven, no one understands those secrets of the past better than I do."
Yu Changkong was powerless at this point, and had no desire to argue with the Heavenly Demon Palace Lord. He said,
"That proves nothing. For a man to achieve a grand and mighty undertaking, he naturally has to draw upon every force he can.
"Besides, so long as the Great Ancestor Emperor held fast to the bottom line in his heart, what did it matter if he played a false game with the Demonic Path? In this world, the victor becomes king and the loser becomes bandit."
The Heavenly Demon Palace Lord agreed with this. Indeed, the affairs of this world could not be conquered without resistance through rules, conviction, and justice alone. It was not impossible, merely far too difficult—far too difficult.
Though he was an inheritor of the Heavenly Demon Palace, he still admired Beitang Gong's methods. A method did not necessarily have to be upright and honorable; it only needed to be useful. That was pragmatism. Anything impractical, however flashy