"Big Brother Xavier, aren't you leaving this hunting ground?" This time, the younger brothers had gained quite a bit and were preparing to withdraw from the hunting ground and bring their gains out after dimensional ascension.
Xavier did not do the same. He planned to observe the Thousand-Form Soul Hunting Ground a while longer.
What had happened to Lin Rongyang and Han Sheng had given him considerable insight. Sometimes, stopping seemed to be another, better choice.
Of course...
"That was only what Naimus thought. In the world of numerical destiny theory, such kindness would only get one swallowed whole!"
If he had been Han Sheng, he could have pretended to agree. Not only would he have suffered no losses, but afterward, he could have released the entire Lin Family. A few years later, he could stage some "natural disaster or man-made calamity" and wipe out the Lin Family.
By then, even if people had vague suspicions, they would have no way to prove anything.
That was simply how the Thousand-Form Soul Hunting Ground worked. Every ten years brought a minor hurdle.
Once things reached a certain point, trials would arrive.
If everyone was wiped out then, it would count as a normal occurrence.
That was the method with the least loss.
Yet the people of this world—or rather, people like them who had been influenced by Naimus—were all especially "emotional." Many times, they cared about... virtue.
"That's right, virtue!" The word flashed through Xavier's mind.
Compared to pure morality, virtue was, on one hand, an embodiment of morality; on the other, it required people to take concrete action.
When virtue emerged, people instead overlooked many human instincts and rose above the mundane world.
To Xavier and the others, such a thing was inconceivable, naive, ignorant, and laughable.
Did they think