"Senior, what was the Lu family like back then?" Lu Yin asked.
Behind him, Mist Ancestor appeared. "What do you mean, what were they like? They stood high above everyone, worshipped by the Fifth Continent, and bore the responsibility of protecting it."
"Stood high above everyone?" Lu Yin asked in confusion.
Mist Ancestor smiled faintly. "To ordinary people, the Lu family stood high above everyone. No matter what the Lu family did for this continent, ordinary people couldn't understand it. They'd rather take the Lu family's place."
"But from the Lu family's perspective, everything they did was perfectly ordinary: accepting others' submission, being envied by others, and obtaining the resources of the entire continent. All of it was perfectly ordinary."
Lu Yin asked, "Then did the Lu family ever do anything that provoked widespread outrage?"
"I don't know," Mist Ancestor replied, looking at Lu Yin. "You're overthinking this. Do you really believe it's possible to rule a continent in a completely aboveboard way?"
Lu Yin looked away.
"You've come this far. Can you claim you've never killed an innocent person by mistake? Can you claim you've never done anything against your conscience? It all depends on how you look at it. At least the Lu family protected the Fifth Continent—that's an unchanging fact. As for the Cold Immortal Sect and the others opposing the Lu family, I think they just want to taste what it's like to stand at the top," Mist Ancestor said.
Lu Yin smiled. Overthinking it? No. He simply wanted to hear Mist Ancestor's opinion.
He didn't care what the Lu family had done or what burdens they had borne. Anyone steering a continent would be the same. As far as he was concerned, the Lu family hadn't done enough—not nearly enough. If it had been up