What made a hero, and what made a villain?
How were heroes and villains defined?
To be righteous was to be upright and serious in conduct, open and aboveboard, principled in one's ways, and helpful to others.
By those standards, the "greatest heroes" of this world had to be Tang San and the other six Monsters, who had ascended to godhood in an instant ten thousand years ago.
Their deeds were illustrious, envied by everyone. Countless people in later generations revered and worshipped them as the greatest of heroes; no one withheld their admiration.
But then again, who knew that over Tang San's three generations, they had monopolized nearly all the highest resources and fortune accumulated across the entire mortal continent every ten thousand years, while the soul beast race had been all but exterminated, directly or indirectly, and so on?
Tang San in particular had uprooted even Spirit Hall, which had once ruled supreme over the world. Yet although Spirit Hall had been boundlessly domineering, it had genuinely provided ordinary people with a measure of safety and supplied soul masters with resources. At the very least, it had kept the continent stable, without any major conflicts. Had it survived to the end, it would have unified the continent, preventing its later fragmentation.
And what had our hero Tang San done? He had uprooted it in the name of justice, plunging the continent into chaos for tens of thousands of years. How many people had lost their families and homes? Yet he had simply dusted off his backside and left.
And the result? He had become the great God King of the Divine Realm, standing above countless millions upon millions of people, holding two divine positions, with a beautiful Hundred-Thousand-Year Soft Bone Rabbit wife. From behind the scenes, he had