Chen Ping took several deep breaths before slowly nodding to Electrolux. "Elder Yi, I can keep it under control. I just..."
"Just never imagined someone could be so vile? That to satisfy his twisted desire for control, he would scheme against his own daughter, make an entire world's living beings suffer, and turn the sacrifices of countless idealists into a ridiculous joke?"
Electrolux seemed to have guessed what Chen Ping wanted to say. He pointed toward the ground, and a gentle breeze swept up a few bones, gathering them into the shape of fingers that gently stroked Chen Ping's back.
"People like that, who show one face in public and another behind closed doors, who preach light and justice while their bellies are full of thieves and whores, who wish they could control or destroy everyone who might threaten them-do you know where I saw the most of them?"
"In none other than that seemingly radiant and magnificent Church. The Glorious Church, with its Pope and imperial guards, its pastors and priests, which seemed to gather all the world's light and beauty."
"When you comforted that Professor Mo earlier, didn't you say that power itself was neither righteous nor evil, and that only the people wielding it could be righteous or evil?"
"Why, then, when the circumstances changed from evil power being used for good to righteous power being used for evil, could you no longer wrap your head around it?"
Electrolux's words were like clarified butter poured over his head, instantly clearing the blockage in Chen Ping's meditative heart and restoring the light to his eyes.
"Teacher, thank you. I was caught up in appearances. I..."
Chen Ping solemnly bowed to Electrolux.
Previously, he had merely treated the idea that power was neither righteous nor evil as a lofty