Hong Luo's words slowly calmed Mu Bai's anger. Leaving others aside and speaking only of himself, he had already slaughtered countless Fierce Beasts and gathered untold quantities of beast materials. What right did he have to condemn the Beast Race's actions?
"More than that, humans eat humans, and beasts eat beasts. That is how cruel the world is!"
Indeed, even ordinary humans oppressed and plundered one another, let alone cultivators, among whom murder for treasure was commonplace! Worse still, some followers of crooked, heretical paths refined cultivators into puppets and sacrificed their living souls to make Soul Banners. There was truly no extreme to which they would not go.
Of those who rose to become powerful, whose hands were not drenched in the blood of other lives?
And who was born noble? Which race was born to rule? Was the Beast Race simply supposed to let others butcher it at will?
Thus, whether the Human Race or the Beast Race, there was no essential difference between the two, nor between their individual members. All merely advanced by treading over the bones of other lives.
"But why did the Beast Race invade Human Race territory on such a massive scale?"
Mu Bai had long been deeply puzzled by this question. He knew Hong Luo was one of the Beast Race's commanders and would certainly know the reason.
"The world is vast, and those with the ability may claim it. What grounds are there for calling it Human Race or Beast Race territory? Does that answer satisfy you, young master?"
"The reasoning is sound, but I feel there must be something else behind it!"
Mu Bai simply refused to stop pursuing that hidden complication.
"All things surge forward like rivers. Great waves inevitably wash away the sand and scour out the gold.