Lin Tian's voice was not loud, yet it rang out across tens of thousands of miles. All the demons listened in silence, and as they listened, tears unwittingly streamed down their faces.
In truth, once demons awakened their intelligence, their nature was not evil. Just look at the unaffiliated monsters along the Journey to the West-how many of them were bad?
The unaffiliated Black Bear Monster composed poetry with the White-Robed Scholar and Lingkongzi, without a trace of demonic aura about him. Was he evil?
The unaffiliated White Bone Demon had merely heard that the Tang Monk was coming and wanted to gamble on gaining immortality.
As for the unaffiliated tree demons of Thorny Ridge, calling them Confucian teachers of the Human Race would not have been wrong at all.
The unaffiliated lion demons of Jade Flower Province treated people kindly and farmed with their own hands to feed their families, young and old. Human villagers could even go into their caves to ask for a bowl of water. Could anyone call them evil?
The three unaffiliated rhinoceros demons had merely impersonated Buddhas to demand fragrant oil, yet they had protected Golden Screen Prefecture for two thousand years.
There was only one man-eating unaffiliated monster: the Ant-Snake Monster. Yet that Python Monster had only just achieved a little success in cultivation. He could not even speak, and had not refined away the transverse bone in his mouth. Rather than calling him a fully fledged monster, it would have been more fitting to say he was still a snake.
Those were the unaffiliated monsters along the Journey to the West, and not one was evil by nature.
Yet all those monsters had met terrible ends. That alone offered a glimpse of the wickedness of the Journey to the West.
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