"Daojing, tell them what the Righteousness Sect's guiding principle is," Lin Bai instructed, turning to look at the dazed Daojing.
Guiding principle?
Does the Righteousness Sect have a guiding principle?
Daojing failed to react at first, but a voice soon sounded in his ear: "Teach all without distinction; embrace all without exclusion."
He glanced in astonishment at Lin Bai's back, mustered his spiritual power, and helplessly repeated, "Teach all without distinction; embrace all without exclusion."
"Not a word out of place." Lin Bai snapped his fingers and smiled. "Fellow Daoists of the Setting Sun Sect, I've made my position clear. You may now choose. If you agree to join the Righteousness Sect, stand to my left within ten breaths. Anyone who hasn't come over after ten breaths will be an enemy of the Righteousness Sect, and there will be no need for you to continue existing. Though I am kindhearted, I won't release a tiger back into the mountains. You only live once. Treasure each step you take."
Kindhearted?
Everyone present was stunned by this shameless self-praise.
Fucking hell.
He really has no shame whatsoever!
Daojing's old face reddened, and he consoled himself: "This is the sect leader's pure heart!"
Daokong said nothing. He had no idea what to say.
Call him shameless, and he truly was shameless—he said absolutely everything out loud.
But call him selfless, and he truly was selfless, too—he said absolutely everything out loud.
The most irrefutable point was that, absurd as Lin Bai's words were, he actually acted on them...
Perhaps, just as his senior brother had said, this was the purity required to cultivate the laws!
"Ten!"
Lin Bai stepped forward. His left hand detached from his arm and floated directly in front of him, palm facing forward. That was the left hand that