Ouyang frowned at Dongxu Zi before him. It seemed that saving All Living Beings Under Heaven had become a responsibility these Great Cultivators took for granted.
Words that would have sounded high-flown in his previous life had become reality here.
Whether it was Dongxu Zi before him, Master's Wife in the Ten Thousand Demon Nation, Hu Yun, or those Great Cultivators he had never met, they were all willing to give up their lifetime of cultivation, even their lives, for this lofty ideal.
And not just their own lives-even their loved ones and disciples could become means to their ends.
Yet under the banner of this greater cause, everything became supposedly noble.
This lofty ideal, so much like moral blackmail, made Ouyang feel a little sick, and equally disgusted.
"You throw yourselves into death, one after another, for All Living Beings Under Heaven, then have those who come after you keep dying. That's how you save All Living Beings Under Heaven? Have you gone senile?" Ouyang asked, his eyes cold as he looked at Dongxu Zi.
Dongxu Zi stared back at Ouyang just as solemnly. "Boy, you grew up in the Azure Cloud Sect. Have you seen the world outside? Do you think everywhere outside is like the Nine Great Sacred Lands? You stand atop a mountain looking down on all living beings, and think they are exactly as you see them?"
Ouyang fell silent again. He really had seldom gone out and truly ventured into this world. On that map, the vast territory of the Azure Cloud Sect occupied only a tiny triangle of the world.
Even now, Ouyang had only a vague impression of just how large this world was, so he could not be certain that what he was doing was right.
"Boy, you have your own