If there were no suffering, there would be no need to save anyone. If there were no calamities, there would be no need to break them. If there were no hardship or despair, there would be no need for heroes.
A truly good doctor made people feel that doctors had no need to exist. Thus, if one wanted people to weep in gratitude and give their very lives, one instead had to drive them into despair, make them despondent and lose themselves, plunge them into the abyss—then haul them back out.
Just as Cang Linzu used the Tongyou method to travel back and forth across various regions, purchasing supplies and supporting countless refugees with his own efforts.
Da Chen, at the edge of Western Min, in territory secretly controlled by the Tianyi Demonic Sect.
Near Wind Abundance Village.
"Refugees who arrived yesterday, follow instructions! Gather beneath the white flag and obey the orders of the banner leaders. Cleanse yourselves in order, change your clothes, then collect your identification plaques at the gold flag before proceeding beneath the green flag for physical examinations!"
"Once the examinations are done, go rest in the tents by the black flag. Sleep if you want to sleep. If you're hungry, go to the red flag and collect food according to the identification plaque issued to you! Two portions per person per day—no taking more! Anyone discovered doing so will be expelled from the refugee camp!"
One of the Five-Colored Banner Lords under the Mysterious Yin Mountain Dharma Altar, directly subordinate to Bai Qinghan and one of the dozen or so Children of Calamity who had followed her in the past, raised his inner force and shouted loudly at the refugees queuing in orderly lines outside the village.
His booming voice pierced the drizzling curtain of