Acting on Heaven's behalf-this was indeed the starting point of everything Li Chen had done.
But when Hu Ze spoke those words, he did not mean acting on Heaven's behalf in the usual sense, laden with subjective judgments of morality, good, and evil.
Morality changed. A few decades ago, baring one's chest and navel might have been considered an affront to public decency; a few decades later, even exposing one's entire body might have become commonplace.
If someone was accidentally injured while apprehending a criminal, the fault might instead fall on the captor.
A poisonous substance in one country remained a poisonous substance, yet in another, it could be perfectly legal and sold freely.
Contradictions and conflicts like these inevitably gave rise to doubts. Many of the world's morals and laws were not sacred at all, so where did their sanctity come from?
They were neither the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth nor objective truths. How, then, could they manifest their sanctity before people and exercise actual binding force?
Only by truly understanding these things could one move beyond the stage of empirical certification, achieve mental certification of a Dao Fruit, and even reflect them into the objective truths of the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth that could be put to use.
This was one way of comprehending the power of law.
The power of law was the morality and legislation of the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth; the morals and laws of the human world secretly accorded with its true intent.
Or, as the saying went, man followed earth, earth followed Heaven, Heaven followed the Dao, and the Dao followed nature.
The mysteries within were enough to attain sainthood.
"Han Li, do you think there truly is no karmic retribution in this world? Viewed through mortal