Benevolence and Joy
An hour later, Chen Yu sat in a chair in the ancestral hall.
In the coffin beside him lay his own corpse from his previous life, while more than a dozen heads sat on the other side.
Even more people were prostrated nearby, staring fearfully at the High Temple Priest ahead of them and Chen Yu seated beside him.
However, Chen Yu did not care what the others thought.
He stared at the corpses on the ground and added another rule in his mind:
Those who had committed heinous crimes and died after judgment did not count as having died unjustly.
They had been eliminated for the people's sake.
Once he understood that, Chen Yu realized that this trial of the Heavenly Demon Constitution had still been designed around the Benevolence Star Lord Dao Fruit.
First, it had made him control the Star Lord. Then it had made him realize his own Divinity. After that, it had taught him the scope of benevolence.
The overall design might not have been very humane, but at least it had covered everything.
And benevolence was not merely caring for others. It also included purging the scum within the group so everyone could live better lives.
In a city of ten thousand people, there would inevitably be those who lined their own pockets, those who committed all manner of evil, and those who indulged their own descendants.
In the past, with "hope" suppressing them, these people had not dared to be too brazen.
But hope's energy had clearly waned in his later years. These people had begun running wild, and the problem had gradually started to take root.
But now, most of them had already been executed. The rest were lying low for the time being; he could root them out