"The Great Reckoning is the choice of all living beings under heaven. Even if the outcome is bad, I will not interfere." Di Yi looked at the three beings on the altar and said softly, "Every stroke leaves a trace; every sip and peck has its cause and consequence."
In his view, the grudges and conflicts of the world were the choices of its living beings. When they made such choices, they ought to consider all the consequences.
Even if all life withered as a result.
It was like the mortal world, where ancient kingdoms and dynasties rose and fell in endless succession, each transition plunging the people into misery.
But who had ever interfered with such choices?
No one.
Though he held the world in his heart and was its king, his thinking was similar. Problems among his subjects, and the choices they themselves made, ought to be resolved by them.
He would not interfere.
"Emperor, is that why the world never sees you? But wouldn't this be too cruel to innocent beings?" After learning Di Yi's thoughts, the three beings on the altar grasped that way of thinking and understood much.
"That is not why the world does not see me." Di Yi shook his head. "As for innocent beings, if you truly trace things back, none can escape the consequences of those 'choices.' But you need not worry. When that time truly comes, something you would never expect will happen. There will be no need for me to act."
"Something we would never expect?" The three beings on the altar listened as though lost in clouds and mist. Yet they were all kings, each the central figure of an era. How could their minds not be keen? They soon caught a hint of something.
"Yes, something none