Yinshan Record

Chapter 756 The Fundamental Contradiction of Moral Transcendence
Su Che's accusations are quite reasonable.

Regardless of the circumstances, the Guangyuan Heavenly Venerable, whom they had never met, was a powerful figure in the Xuandu Palace. Such a great being risked his reputation and even the Xuandu Palace just to deal with a few insignificant nobodys.

This is completely unreasonable.

"How can those old drug lords be treated like normal people like us? Besides, this matter is not as simple as you think."

The Yin-Yang Dharma King breathed a long sigh of relief.

"Young Su, what is your view of the common people in this world?"

This question left Su Che somewhat at a loss for words.

"Humans, being the most intelligent of all beings, find cultivation the easiest, thus they are favored by heaven and earth..."

"I'm not talking about these abstract concepts."

The Yin-Yang Dharma King looked at Su Che with a serious expression.

"If, and I mean if, there were a way to achieve immortality by killing ten thousand innocent civilians, would you do it?"

Ten thousand ordinary people?
Is immortality really that easy?

"If killing ten thousand ordinary people could grant immortality, that would be far too easy."

Su Che said, "I'll just find countless poor and destitute people. As long as they're willing to die by my blade, I'll give their families a large sum of gold and silver. Hehe, if this young man doesn't die, won't those old men and women who are about to die of old age rush to him for their grandsons and granddaughters?"

“I won’t kill them in vain. I will leave their souls behind and send them to be reincarnated. After they are reincarnated, they will have no worries about food and clothing and live happily until they grow old, and then they will go on to the next cycle.”

"Life is but a hundred years in the blink of an eye. If you count sixty years as a cycle, you will obediently endure the knife, and then, with a series of cracking sounds, you will become an immortal immortal."

Su Che thought for a moment: "If I were to manage it, it should be able to become widespread in three hundred years..."

Looking at the eloquent Young Master Su, the Yin-Yang Dharma King suddenly realized that he had given the wrong example.

Furthermore, is this kid really from a prestigious sect like Huang Tiandao? How do Yu Lizi and the others teach their disciples?

Suddenly, he realized that Su had been learning from him for much longer than he had from Huang Tiandao, so it seemed that the responsibility still fell on his own shoulders.

When did you raise this kid to be like this? Is this just his nature?
"Alright, alright, I admit I was wrong."

The Yin-Yang Dharma King looked at the void outside.

The two were now at the top of the Japanese mothership, which was the bridge. They had a wide view and a large interior. Although the interior was filled with various fleshy growths, there were still a few tables and chairs.

He found a chair and sat down, his fingers slowly tapping the table.

"The North and South Poles are now occupied by the Demonic Sect..."

"Yes, I know that."

"Since the collapse of heaven and earth, the sun and moon have been obscured in the north and south, which are also the weakest points of the nine layers of heavenly energy. For demonic cultivators, such a place is like paradise. But even so, many mortals still live there."

The Yin-Yang Dharma King looked at Su Che and said, "These mortals are all kept by the Demonic Sect, either for entertainment or as resources for cultivation. They are almost like livestock. The Demonic Sect has a special name for these mortals: human pigs. Some Demonic Sect cultivators have killed a hundred pregnant women in an instant to practice a certain Demonic Sect supernatural power. And this was only for one use. How cruel and inhumane these two sides are! They are no less than when the Demon Gods of the Primordial Era were still around."

"These demons and traitors should be killed."

Su Che was somewhat confused.

Does this really need to be explained clearly?
The struggle between the Dao and the Demonic is a struggle for the Great Dao. Either the demonic cultivators are corrupted by the esoteric sects and attain transcendence through the wonders of transformation, or the esoteric cultivators overcome their inner demons and break through the tribulations.

Even if some demonic cultivator changes his nature and inexplicably goes to vegetarianism and chanting Buddhist scriptures, becoming indifferent to worldly affairs... even so, killing him is just killing him, why bother with any evidence?

"But what if someone has a beautiful wife who is seduced by a spiritual practitioner using cunning methods?"

"This..." This question touched on Su Che's blind spot and made the Third Young Master Su realize his problem.

As a rising star, I haven't been able to detach myself from the mundane world for very long.

To me, so-called spiritual practitioners are nothing more than a special kind of mortal.

Having gained supernatural powers and freedom, there is nothing more to it.

In any case, cultivation here depends entirely on the effort one puts in; there's no need to test one's spiritual roots or anything like that. Therefore, Su Che regards cultivation as an inevitable choice for mortals.

However, the real trouble lies here.

The changes that spiritual practice can bring are so immense that the practitioner has already surpassed ordinary people by a great deal.

To put it bluntly, if a celestial being took a fancy to a mortal's wife, such as Guangyuan Tianzun, and he had any idea to become like Ximen Qing, who could stop him?
If he were to use the same methods as Pan Lu Deng Xiao Xian, how many ordinary women wouldn't fall for him?

If the Celestial Venerable Guangyuan were willing to take the aggrieved party into his fold and accept him as a disciple...

Heh heh, I wonder how many scoundrels would offer their wives and daughters to prove their "moral conscience" and break free from this "shackle"...

In the clash between Heaven and Man, among the nine laws of Heaven and Man, will the law of morality be distorted in the face of transcendent power? And how many people can preserve their true nature?

"If we want to maintain an ethical code and allow morality to function among people, then we must restrain practitioners, whether the restraint is light or heavy. This is why there is a Heavenly Court."

The Yin-Yang Dharma King looked at Su Che and said, "Cultivators should be restrained. This restraint cannot be just a passive level like the laws of heaven and earth. Someone must take the initiative. Otherwise, the human way in our world will sooner or later fall into the realm of animals, hell, and hungry ghosts."

Su Che shook his head upon hearing this.

"How could you say that, senior? You're just trying to adapt to local customs. Why use Buddhist rhetoric as an excuse..."

"It's just a metaphor."

The Yin-Yang Dharma King then posed another question.

"But the problem is, how do we regulate practitioners? Where do good and evil, and morality, come from? Most importantly, why are practitioners willing to endure such constraints?"

Su Che nodded upon hearing this.

To be honest, Su Che knows only his own situation.

They have very flexible moral bottom lines, so flexible that they are almost without any bottom lines.

Sometimes I think, it wouldn't be so bad if I could be a ruthless devil who spends his days and nights in the north or south.

The reason he was so flexible was that Su Che was very clear that the so-called good and evil were very illusory things.

What is good? What is evil?
It is merely a manifestation of moral law; the inherent good or evil attributes of the same thing will change over time.

You say killing is wrong, but how is killing enemies to protect your home and country wrong?

You say it's right to protect the country, but if the country is a shameless foreign regime that oppresses and abuses its people, what's the point of protecting it?
By simply adding more qualifiers and changing the conditions, good and evil become something that can be changed at will.

Moreover, the vast difference between ordinary people and spiritual practitioners makes it impossible for them to discuss good and evil on the same premise.

The same punishment can be endured to varying degrees by different people.

If you arrest an ordinary person and lock him up for five years, he'll be crippled even if he doesn't die.

If you arrest a spiritual practitioner and lock him up for five years, he won't even be satisfied with just a period of seclusion.

How should we negotiate?
"Therefore, in the Heavenly Court of that time, all those who cultivated to the current level of the Elixir of Immortality would be listed on the True Spirit Rank Chart and guided to ascend to immortality."

(End of this chapter)