Chapter 2189: Formulating World Rules, Infiltrating Among the Corpses
"Never underestimate the human heart," Xu Zimo said.
"Especially powerful figures who disregard life."
Everyone nodded.
Indeed, in a world where laws could not restrain the strong, the strong acted entirely according to their hearts.
If a powerful figure truly enjoyed killing, no one could stop them unless someone even stronger stepped in.
This matter had also given Xu Zimo a reminder.
As the saying went, without rules, nothing could be squared. In a purely technological world, no matter how powerful one person was, their strength was ultimately limited.
The greatest wars were merely battles between nations, involving over a billion people, so everyone exercised considerable restraint.
But in a martial world, one person was like a nuclear weapon, filled with uncontrollable danger.
Take the Sacred Court before them. It had turned the entire Niemo Domain into an experimental base, treating all living beings as test subjects.
Such a conscience-shattering act could instead pass without incident, so long as it remained hidden from gods and ghosts alike.
Xu Zimo felt that some rules still needed to be established within the world.
Of course, these rules were not meant to interfere with the world, but to ensure its deeper and more enduring development.
First of all, Xu Zimo considered matters from a different angle than others.
Ordinary cultivators would certainly view things from their own perspective.
But Xu Zimo viewed things from the standpoint of a world's development.
For instance, in his Previous Life, people believed that if someone committed countless evils while alive, they would descend into the eighteen levels of hell after death.
That was karma and retribution.
But what if karma and retribution truly existed?
Would those who disregarded rules and slaughtered innocents without restraint still dare to act