Flexible Standards

"You're back rather late today!" Jessica, who was still struggling to balance an egg, raised an eyebrow when she saw Feng Xue suddenly appear at 29 Williams Street.

"I went to Colombia and signed a few apprentices there... By the way, you haven't met the standard yet? If you really can't do it, it means you don't have enough self-control. At this point, it's not about forcing yourself to practice, but about honing your skills."

Feng Xue casually offered a word of advice, but Jessica shook her head and said:

"I do accept commissions and have regular training; I just feel that this itself can also train my mindset."

As she spoke, the three eggs she had just stacked collapsed again, but her completely unchanged expression showed that her State of Mind had indeed improved.

Seeing this, Feng Xue didn't say anything more and turned to go to the kitchen to get some fries, but Jessica stopped her:

"There have been many Imitation Case lately, which could tarnish Libra's reputation."

"That's not a problem," Feng Xue shook her head casually.

"Libra doesn't exist to be thanked; its purpose is to maintain balance. In fact, the more copycats there are, the better. This at least creates an effective deterrent, making those outlaws think twice before committing crimes."

At this point, Feng Xue's gaze towards Jessica became slightly subtle, causing Jessica to shiver involuntarily. Confused, she asked:

What's wrong with me?

"It's nothing. I just suddenly remembered that your family seems to be quite large. What if you receive a request about your own family someday?"

Feng Xue jokingly asked a somewhat pointed question, Jessica, who was still trying to continue stacking eggs, stopped.

After a moment, she shook her head and gave Feng Xue an answer she hadn't expected:

"If I do receive the call, I will take action, which will also clear the Newspaper Agency of any suspicion."

"Are you serious?" Feng Xue frowned. With the protection of [Mirror of Clarity], he could clearly sense the seriousness in Jessica's seemingly casual reply—this was not just empty talk, but she truly meant it.

Seeing Feng Xue's strange expression, Jessica slightly raised the corners of her mouth, seemingly amused by this unusual expression, before saying:

"It's not as complicated as you think. The Swire Family has long since moved beyond the stage of needing to accumulate wealth through bloodshed. At least my father and brother no longer need to resort to such means to gain benefits. As for those relatives in the branches... would you have any goodwill towards a group of people who are always thinking about seizing your family's wealth?"

"Every family has its own problems." Feng Xue shook her head, swallowing back the words she had originally intended. "Libra upholds justice, but it's not mandatory for it, so it can choose not to take on the case."

Ultimately, assassins are still human, and humans are not immune to emotions and desires. This is why Feng Xue was relatively lenient when making the covenant.

As long as one can uphold morality and justice, even if there are some selfish motives, this Oath Keeper will not go too far.

Watching Jessica continue stacking eggs, Feng Xue returned to her room and began her daily study routine.

As the Weird Tale of "Libra" spread, Feng Xue's various Tag were reinforced in people's perceptions. Leaving aside her powers, even the essence of the Tag was elevated. Take the Tag "[Money Printer]" for example; it is now completely embedded in the Weird Tale of "Libra." Feng Xue no longer needs to diligently manufacture coins; as long as the conditions for "distributing coins" are met, coins can be automatically produced and distributed to the corresponding executioners.

However, this enhancement also increased the amount of knowledge contained in the original Tag. The Tag "[Assassin]" was originally given by the Infinite City, but Tag such as "[Demon]" and "[Instructor]" which were directly formed from reality, also saw an increase in knowledge as awareness rose.

Besides learning knowledge, Feng Xue also copied various martial arts manuals. Although most of the manuals provided by <Peerless Martial Art> had rather strict cultivation conditions, this did not prevent Feng Xue from "searching for chapters and extracting sentences". In addition to using them to strengthen Bu Tiange, she also used [Mindless Divine Power] to edit her True Qi and then used it as a short-term buff. For example, the Youth Cooking that Feng Xue made when she played the Demon Chef were actually the anti-aging part of <Taiyin Yiming Jue> edited out and injected into the dishes.

"Why can't I ever use my lightness skill... Are peerless and Divine Grade lightness skills really that rare?" Feng Xue looked at the Blood Child Great Art in her hand with a somewhat disgusted expression. After thinking for a moment, she closed the book.

Although the Peerless Martial Art technique is theoretically refreshed with each opening and closing, through so much experimentation, he gradually discovered some subtle patterns, namely the "catalog" setting.

The so-called table of contents is naturally something that "records content according to a certain pattern." This book is the same. If you quickly flip through and close it, you will find that most of the cultivation techniques that appear in the book will have some similarities. For example, if you find the Blood Child Great Technique now, then if Feng Xue flips through it continuously, there is a high probability that she will find other evil techniques.

"Looks like there's nothing to copy tonight. Should I go to sleep, or go look for some promising talents in other countries?"

Feng Xue threw herself onto the bed, staring blankly at the ceiling, but began to ponder in her mind. Since the Scales Supernatural Tale unfolded, the Real World Rules of [injustice] and [execution] had been relatively normal, only popping up once or twice every now and then. But this [inheritance] was terrifying; it seemed to appear almost every few minutes.

Fortunately, Feng Xue herself could choose to accept or not accept, otherwise he would probably have to flash every few minutes.

"There are people from Yan Kingdom... Should we take this opportunity to go see Chen Xiyao?" Feng Xue browsed the points of light that appeared in the Real World Rules, but ultimately chose to give up.

Because he didn't really want Yan Guo to associate him with Libra.

No matter how "just" Libra is, he is a disruptive force to the authorities, and if he wants to cooperate with the Yan Kingdom's government, he must appear as harmless as possible.

As for why he insisted on clinging to the powerful Yan Kingdom...

It's not about any sense of national or patriotic sentiment; it's simply about wanting to mass-produce the secret manual.

The mass production of coins has confirmed his conjecture about cognition and the production of Phantom Object. In this context, a country with widespread knowledge and recognition of martial arts manuals becomes quite important.

Looking across the entire planet, there is nowhere more suitable for his development than Yan Kingdom. The only problem now is that he is not strong enough.

Perhaps because the executioners have had relatively few direct confrontations, among the seven blessings, the strongest are [Body of a Hundred Refinements] and [Endless Wealth], followed by [Breath Concealment Technique]. As for [Arrow Protection], it's only enough to dodge pistol bullets, and such strength is clearly insufficient against a regular army.

"I should travel to Colombia more often lately. Victoria's gun ownership rate is still a bit low... We need to leave ordinary people with the impression that 'Libra's executioners are truly fearless of bullets'..."

With this in mind, Feng Xue selected a spot of light from Colombia from among the scattered points of light in her mind and issued a plea for help from the "present world"...

Morality is a social ideology, while justice is the "correctness" derived from the simple understanding of "fairness".

The criteria for determining an alliance are based on this ideology, which in a sense means judging it based on something like the collective subconscious or universal values.

As for whether the idea that "vegetarians believe all meat-eaters deserve to die" is justified...

No, don't be fooled by the clamor of those zealots. It's all about profit. They're all talk and no action, and the more extreme they are, the more they're like that. They know it all too well. On the other hand, those who truly identify with a ideology aren't so extreme. I know quite a few vegetarians. They just don't eat meat themselves. At most, they'll advise others to eat less, but they won't say anything when they see others eating it.

By the way, the most basic justice and morality are complementary, and the simplest justice is damn fair!

Blood for blood, tooth for tooth, a life for a life, a debt for a debt.

To put it bluntly, it's retaliation in kind.

P. S.: Don't mention Batman to me. I've hated that character from the beginning. Many of Gotham City's supervillains were driven mad by social problems and the exploitation of capitalists. If Batman had used even a small portion of the money he squandered on equipment to improve Gotham City, I believe there would be far fewer villains.

But he was simply obsessed with his Superhero games. The money he spent on "executing justice" every day, if divided equally among the poorest people in Gotham City, would have allowed them to live comfortably for a month.

That's so true. It only takes one bad day to drive a person crazy, and for the poor in Gotham City, every day is bad.