When it came to taking sides, Chu Mu leaned toward Yaoshi.
As Chu Mu saw it, these mortals wanted to kill Yaoshi, all while claiming they would make Abundance pure.
It was truly foolish.
As though Yaoshi had somehow sullied this Path.
If Yaoshi was inherently tainted, how could the Path they opened be pure?
Mortals wanted all the benefits the Path of Abundance offered, yet refused to pay any price.
Could such a bargain really exist?
Everything in this world was balanced. Fortune and misfortune were bound to go hand in hand.
The price of immortality was falling into mara in one's twilight years, as though that were some unbearable torment. But to Chu Mu, this was nothing more than taking a bargain and still complaining.
Ask any member of a short-life species: if you could live ten times longer, without aging or illness, and the price was going mad in your twilight years, would you accept?
Hesitating for even a second would be an insult to that tenfold lifespan.
Back in the Underworld's Mine Tunnel, the young Chu Mu hadn't even thought he would survive his childhood. Never mind dreaming of a thousand-year lifespan-he hadn't dared imagine even ten!
That was why, after arriving on the Xianzhou, he always felt a sense of absurdity-
These people clearly had lifespans of nearly a thousand years, yet they constantly complained about the tedium of longevity and the ominous fate awaiting them in old age.
They called longevity a plague, and Yaoshi the Plagues Author.
As though Yaoshi had committed some unforgivable crime by infecting them with this plague.
But was Yaoshi truly at fault?
Yaoshi granted mortals longevity, but could they interfere with how those mortals chose to live their lives?
Had Yaoshi ever participated in even a single war