Usurping Fate, Deceiving the Enemy
He Ping laid the Emperor You's plan bare before Qu Yingguang and the others. Yet the Emperor You's scheme had always been an open stratagem, a matter concerning the grand course of the world. Even if he did not tell them now, it would gradually become clear in time.
Saying it now could, at least, dispel some of these people's hostility. Still, for righteous figures like Qu Yingguang and Yun Zhongting, it was somewhat difficult to accept.
For a long time, it had been a consensus in the cultivation world that the Emperor You's acts of defying Heaven would bring immense "calamity" upon the future. Even for cultivators like Qu Yingguang and Yun Zhongting, who saw themselves as "people beyond the worldly realm," neither the destruction of Buddhism and Daoism nor Great You's philosophy of governance was the greatest clash between their values.
What truly worried the two of them was that the Emperor You was a "man who defied Heaven," someone who would inflict grave damage upon the future. The Emperor You's actions had prevented the future Divine Court's descent, bringing even more natural disasters and human calamities upon the world.
In truth, this mindset had become a fixed impression. It was impossible to make them reverse such a deeply ingrained view in a short time.
However, He Ping had never intended to persuade them at once. He knew very well that something so deeply rooted could not be changed in the short term.
Perhaps, in the future, the Emperor You might be able to persuade people like Qu Yingguang and Yun Zhongting. At their core, they are the same kind of people—but I cannot do such a thing now...
He even had the feeling that if the Emperor You were to meet these