My brother is so cunning

Chapter 1057 The Biggest Difference Between the Chan Sect and the Jie Sect

Yun Zhongzi was faced with a trolley problem: he had to choose between the greater good of the people and the loyalty of his friends.

Is it wronging one person, or wronging all sentient beings in the three realms?

After hesitating for a long time, he finally sighed softly and pointed his finger at the safe.

Even if he had to choose countless times, he would still prioritize the well-being of the people.

Just like back then, although they had vaguely sensed that the Chan Sect seemed to be plotting something big, even though demonic energy was clearly looming over Chaoge in the Yin Shang Dynasty, their master and fellow disciples pretended not to see it.

Even after calculating with his fingers, Yun Zhongzi realized that if he intervened too early in the demonic calamity of the Yin Shang dynasty, it would likely ruin the sect's affairs. Nevertheless, he went down from Zhongnan Mountain and went to Chaoge alone to subdue the demon.

As a result, despite making countless contributions in the Investiture of the Gods, Yun Zhongzi's current situation is far worse than that of the Twelve Golden Immortals, and even worse than that of some immortals in the Jie Sect, such as Chang Er Ding Guang Xian.

However, he became a traitor. Chang Er Ding Guang Xian was internally designated as a Buddha by the Western Sect, while Yun Zhong Zi, who had made countless contributions, is still just a wandering immortal. Even his disciple Lei Zhen Zi was implicated and assigned to serve as a thunder general under his former mortal enemy Wen Zhong.

It's important to know that Yun Zhongzi played a key role in Wen Zhong's defeat and death at Jue Long Ridge. Arranging Yun Zhongzi's disciple to serve as a general under Wen Zhong was clearly a recipe for disaster.

Many years have passed since the Investiture of the Gods, and Yun Zhongzi has gradually come to understand a truth: cultivating immortality is not about fighting and killing, nor is it about upholding justice, but about understanding human relationships and worldly affairs.

He almost ruined the important plans of his master, Goddess Nuwa, the Western Sage, Master Laozi, and all the other disciples of the Chan Sect. Even though everything he did was to save the common people, those powerful figures couldn't find any reason to criticize him. In the future, they would have plenty of ways to secretly teach him a profound lesson.

Even so, Yun Zhongzi remained steadfast in his Daoist beliefs, prioritizing the safety of all living beings even at the cost of losing a rare and precious friend.

Perhaps out of pity for his good intentions, the finger touched the safe without any warning signs, which means that the safe was not equipped with a mystical energy detector.

The Demon Alliance's network alarm system won't alert the thieves. Even if it issues an alarm, there won't be any unusual activity, making the thieves think they've succeeded, while in reality the police who received the alarm are already on their way.

However, for someone at Yun Zhongzi's level, the Heavenly Dao's warnings on a whim have become passive skills. Even if an electronic device sends a secret alarm, he can receive a reminder from the unseen world and will not foolishly remain at the crime scene.

Even if it's an electronic lock, without a mystical energy detector installed, you can still use divine power to move the internal mechanical structure of the lock cylinder.

With a thought from Yun Zhongzi, the safe door clicked open. This built-in safe wasn't large, but its interior space was quite spacious. Like Xiao Jie's designer handbag, it also employed a metaphysical space-saving technique to expand the interior space.

Generally speaking, spatial magical artifacts like storage bags have a divine sense array to identify their owner, but the items sold by the Demon Alliance to the public that incorporate metaphysical spatial technology have deliberately erased this array.

The main reason is that many users may be rich enough to afford such magical artifacts, but their cultivation level is too low, and their spiritual strength has not even reached the passing grade for activating spatial magical artifacts.

This inadvertently increases the difficulty for customers to use the product and reduces the number of potential customers. Therefore, many manufacturers have replaced the divine sense array with electronic locks so that ordinary people without any cultivation foundation can use the spatial magic item at will.

Once the electronic lock on the safe is broken, there's no need to crack the divine sense array; the items stored inside can be retrieved directly.

Of course, with Yun Zhongzi's cultivation level, erasing the divine sense imprint of a spatial magic treasure would be effortless, much simpler than cracking an electronic lock.

Although he successfully opened the safe without triggering the alarm system, Yun Zhongzi felt no joy; instead, his mood was heavy. He felt he had betrayed his friend and was morally flawed.

But considering that Wen Rui had been planning for hundreds of years, even colluding with the Blood Sea Demon Clan, he was determined to unleash a great upheaval in the mortal realm that hadn't happened in three thousand years.

What terrible impact will this great transformation have on the future of billions of beings in the Three Realms?
Thinking of this, Yun Zhongzi had no choice but to suppress his frustration and focus his energy on finding clues.

Reaching his hand into the space, he probed with his divine sense and found that in the first spatial compartment, there were only a few thin pieces of paper.

The storage space of a spatial artifact can be divided into many compartments, and the items stored in the compartments will not come into contact with each other. This safe has a volume of one cubic meter and is divided into ten compartments. A piece of paper is only the size of a piece of paper, yet it occupies the first compartment, which shows that it must be very important to the owner of the safe.

With a thought, Yun Zhongzi took out the few pieces of paper.

Take out the paper and examine it closely. The top piece of paper is a photograph.

The photo also features the text: "Graduation Commemoration of the 37th Branch of the First Phase of the Secret Realm Teaching Program".

The photo shows one hundred beautiful young insectoid girls dressed in academic gowns, standing neatly in several rows, with an ordinary-looking human man at the very center.

After a quick glance, Yun Zhongzi found Xiao Jie, who was sitting on the human man's shoulder, wiping away tears with a look of reluctance on her face.

The man in the photo has a kind and honest appearance and a friendly smile. Although Yun Zhongzi has never met him, just by looking at his face and judging from his professional skills as a fortune teller, he can tell that he is a kind-hearted, honest, hardworking, upright and selfless person.

Yun Zhongzi seemed to understand something. No wonder this little demon, though a demon, was kind by nature and her virtues and intelligence surpassed those of most humans. This was definitely due to the education she had received in the past.

The man was clearly the teacher of the group of insectoid girls. Having such a good teacher to guide their lives was like planting seeds of goodness in the Western religion; they would never go astray no matter what.

Even as a disciple of the Chan Sect, Yun Zhongzi couldn't help but marvel at how the Jie Sect's ability to educate was unparalleled among the three sects.

Demons and monsters who joined the Jie Sect, after being trained by the Tongtian Sect Master, may not be stronger than the Twelve Golden Immortals of the Chan Sect in terms of Taoist magic and supernatural powers, but in terms of humanity, they are undoubtedly far superior.

The inhuman demons learned the meaning of friendship in the Intercepting Sect. They were willing to go to great lengths for their fellow disciples and even die for them. They also learned to respect their teachers and the Dao. At the leader's command, they would share weal and woe and perish together.

And what about the Twelve Golden Immortals of the Chan Sect?

The great calamity of the Investiture of the Gods had just ended when four of them switched their allegiance to the Western Sect. They showed no regard for their past feelings whatsoever, and their severance was remarkably swift and decisive. Their cultivation of the ruthless path was quite thorough.

Even the lowest-ranking disciples of the Jie Sect, such as Xiao Jie, who had just joined the sect as a demon, were so loyal, righteous, and full of human warmth after being trained by an unknown teacher who seemed to be just an ordinary person.

He cherishes his past educational experiences as the most precious treasure, keeping them hidden in a safe, specifically in the first compartment. He must often take them out to reminisce and savor them in the quiet of the night.

(End of this chapter)