Zhang Yang did not care about telling Heaven-Burning Immortal King these arrangements. Even if Flame Mountain opened up and announced them to the entire Immortal Realm, so what?
Would anyone else believe it?
Would they refuse to attend the two sermons?
As long as they attended the sermons, conflicts of interest would inevitably arise, and change would inevitably begin!
If they refused the sermons, then they could wait to perish after others had risen!
It was merely a matter of dying sooner or later.
Moreover, since Heaven-Burning Immortal King wished to reform, the proposal Zhang Yang put forward was in Heaven-Burning Immortal King's interests and in Flame Mountain's interests as well.
Heaven-Burning Immortal King looked at Zhang Yang in shock and asked, "How many people would have to die... Throwing every last one of them into the Creation Spirit Pool, isn't that going too far?"
Zhang Yang searched through his Space Gem, took out an issue of the Azure Cloud Gazette, and placed it before Heaven-Burning Immortal King.
This issue of the Azure Cloud Gazette was from a very, very long time ago, and contained an essay discussing the value of lives.
"Immortal King Senior, if you want reform, you must first reform your old way of thinking! You must begin by changing yourself!" Zhang Yang said flatly. "When those several million living beings collapsed into ruin, you did not find it regrettable. Now that it is merely a matter of dealing with several thousand people, you have begun to feel regret?
Most likely because those several million living beings were nothing but lowly commoners.
And these several thousand people are all great cultivators, all raised with countless resources from Flame Mountain, aren't they?
Your Flame Mountain should truly count itself fortunate that heaven and earth have not yet been