Good vs. bad people theory
Upon hearing Xu Yi's reply, the thin old man's angry expression vanished, and he burst into laughter, his laughter unrestrained: "Hahaha, you didn't know either, did you? You're just like me... hahaha..." After saying that, he laughed and left first.
Daoyin stepped forward, sighed, and comforted Xu Yi, saying, "Life is unpredictable. Senior brother is just being stubborn. You don't need to worry about it. Let me take you to find a place to rest."
Xu Yi, her mind still a bit dazed, followed the guide to a sacrificial tower. Various sacrificial towers surrounded the central altar. Although they were still some distance away, Xu Yi could already faintly sense the overwhelming pressure emanating from the altar… Xu Yi frowned, her eyes filled with worry. As soon as she met the guide's probing gaze, she feigned concern and asked, “What’s inside this central altar?”
"Great demon..." the guide replied succinctly: "A great demon who is infatuated with love."
Xu Yi had just been questioned by the skinny old man, and the question of good versus bad people had been lingering in her mind ever since. Now, wanting to know what Dao Yin thought, she asked, "What do you think about what your senior brother said about good versus bad people?"
"How should I see it?" Daoyin shook his head: "A good person is a good person, and a bad person is a bad person. What's there to see?"
"Your senior brother just said 'a lovesick idiot loves to commit suicide for love,' and you just said that there is a lovesick demon in the middle. So, is he a good person or a bad person?"
"He's a good person," the guide answered crisply, "but he did bad things because he was bound by his own love, so he's already a bad person, and that's why he's suffering these divine punishments..."
"Something bad happened?" Xu Yi's tone unconsciously rose an octave: "Did he kill someone or commit arson? Divine punishment? Wasn't it your senior brother who punished him? This is clearly a man-made disaster..."
“Man-made disaster?” Daoyin thought Xu Yi was being too aggressive because he disliked his senior brother so much, so he shook his head: “He did get involved in something he shouldn’t have, which is why his senior brother is suffering like this. If we’re talking about cause and effect, he has only himself to blame.”
"He only has himself to blame?" Hearing this phrase again, Xu Yi's heart clenched. She knew about Bai Da and Xiang Qi's situation and understood that Bai Da had willingly taken on Xiang Qi's evil deeds, which led to this terrible consequence. But that didn't negate the fact that Bai Da was a good person; he had simply chosen the wrong path, hadn't he? And yet, this path was undeniably one he had chosen willingly…
Xu Yi was somewhat confused: "How exactly should it be calculated? Is there a standard for right and wrong?"
Daoyin looked at Xu Yi, remaining silent for a long time. Finally, he sighed, "How can the rights and wrongs of this world be defined in a single sentence? You don't need to be so pessimistic..."
"But now that this is right in front of me, how can I not want to?" Xu Yi looked at Dao Yin: "Dao Yin, if you were your senior brother, would you do this?"
"First, I'm not my senior brother; second, if I were my senior brother, I'm not sure what I'd be like now; third, there are no 'ifs'." Daoyin stepped forward: "Xu Yi, now I'm asking you, what is your purpose in getting close to me?"
"I... I just... thought you were beautiful and wanted to marry you..." Xu Yi quickly regained her composure: "I just... heard your senior brother's questioning and saw the people in the altar, so it's inevitable that my thoughts would wander a little..."
"Xu Yi, are you a ghost, or a vengeful ghost without any malevolence? The breadth and depth of your thoughts are beyond the reach of ordinary people. Are you really someone who would risk your life because of loneliness?"
Obviously not, Xu Yi certainly wasn't, but at this moment she had to admit: "Yes, I am, of course I am. It's because I think too much that I yearn to find someone who understands me, that I desperately crave to connect with someone on the same wavelength. I've already died once, the length of life is insignificant to me... Now I just want to pursue what I want, I just want to find the answers I seek."
“But the only person in this world who can answer you is yourself. Others’ opinions are just other people’s opinions, and no one is an exception…” Daoyin answered Xu Yi’s question very seriously, and after a long while, she murmured, “If you want to stay by my side in the future, then stay. Although I am not the person you are looking for, I am traveling anyway, so it won’t matter if you are there. When you find the person you are looking for, it is up to you whether you stay or leave.”
Xu Yi was taken aback by Daoyin's sudden agreement and nodded blankly, "Okay." Feeling her tone wasn't cheerful enough, she repeated, "Of course." Thinking of the important matter, Xu Yi tentatively asked, "Daoyin, could you take me to see that infatuated demon?"
“Okay,” the guide replied readily, “but the array around the altar is extremely powerful, so you should stay away.”
"Let's check on Bai Da's condition," Xu Yi quickly nodded, "Okay, I'll listen to you."
Without wasting any more words, Daoyin led Xu Yi directly to the vicinity of the altar, stopping when they were still quite a distance away.
Inside the altar, the blood mist was even thicker, creating a hazy atmosphere with extremely low visibility... Xu Yi searched for a long time but couldn't find Bai Da... Suddenly, a small, elongated object in the shadows of the altar flicked up. Because it was all red, Xu Yi hadn't noticed it before, but now she realized it was Bai Da's tailbone...
A bare tailbone... without a trace of flesh... remnants of dried blood and some thin, indelible tendons and bones were congealed on the tailbone, making its undulating shape look exceptionally gruesome... just seeing it was enough to imagine the excruciating pain of having flesh and bone scraped off...
Xu Yi's eyes instantly reddened. As Xu Yi traced Bai Da's entire body in the shadows, following the shape of the tailbone, Bai Da seemed to sense it and began to move. The varying shades of darkness within the shadows began to shift and move towards the front... Slowly, little by little, Bai Da's head appeared... The enormous snake head emerged from the shadows, until its complete head was fully revealed...
Although the snakehead's expression didn't change at all, Xu Yi could see a faint smile in Bai Da's eyes...
Bai Da… Xu Yi didn’t dare to speak, didn’t dare to move… didn’t even dare to turn her head obviously towards Bai Da, forcibly forcing her tears back into her eyes, her eyes reddening without warning…
It's unclear whether Bai Da was afraid of frightening Xu Yi, but after the snake's head had completely emerged from the shadows, it stopped advancing and gently touched the ground, leaving only half of its forked tongue sticking out, as if it couldn't be retracted...
Xu Yi's mind kept flashing back to Bai Da's polite and refined gentlemanly appearance...
Seeing Bai Da lying motionless on the ground, unable to retract his tongue, covered in wounds, and with the trail of blood beneath him... I almost couldn't help but gasp in shock...
Xu Yi looked at Bai Da with eyes full of sorrow, while Bai Da looked at Xu Yi with eyes full of worry...
Xu Yi's nose stung again. Such a good person, even when he himself was tormented and unable to move, was still worried about her, an outsider who was perfectly fine outside the altar...
Xu Yi's heart clenched into a painful knot once more...
She unconsciously took two steps closer to the altar... but was pulled back by the guiding voice...
"Are you out of your mind?"
Reason returned, and her mind instantly cleared. Xu Yi bit her lip and said timidly, "I... I just wanted to see things more clearly..."
At that very moment, lightning struck from the sky, and Bai Da screamed in agony, his body involuntarily jerking twice from the impact... his eyes filled with pain...
Before Xu Yi could finish uttering the name "Bai Da," Bai Da let out a shriek and struggled upwards, as if trying to break through the altar... but after only a couple of attempts, it was heavily struck down by Farei...
The massive body crashed to the ground with a series of dull thuds... and the impact made Xu Yi bite her lip tightly...
"Hahaha, you beast..." Jiu Yin's exaggerated laughter echoed in my ears: "Do you think you can escape? You can't..." The laughter lingered for a long time...
Bai Da fell to the ground without any reaction, remaining motionless despite being struck by lightning, only staring straight at Xu Yi...
This was to prevent her from being exposed… Xu Yi understood, and tears welled up uncontrollably… Xu Yi looked down, watching the tears drip straight to the ground, then turned and hid behind the sound guide, murmuring in a voice the sound guide could hear, “So scary… so scary…”
"It's alright..." the guiding voice comforted Xu Yi, "Although this magic lightning is powerful, it can only move within the altar and won't come out..."
"Hahaha...you little brat, scared already?" Jiu Yin's annoying voice drew closer: "What's there to be afraid of?" He pulled Xu Yi out from behind the guide, and Xu Yi felt a chill run down her spine...she tried to break free but Jiu Yin grabbed her hair and forced her to take two steps closer to the altar...
As Xu Yi watched the altar draw ever closer, her physical and mental disgust reached its peak... She frantically shook her body, trying to get away from the hateful little figure behind her, but even though her scalp ached from the pulling and her body was constricted red, she couldn't break free...
At this moment, Xu Yi only hated that she wasn't strong enough, hated that she couldn't kill the person behind her directly... Her mind was wandering, her spirit was unstable, and ghostly energy was emanating from Xu Yi's body in waves... But Jiu Yin laughed happily as if he had discovered a new continent, "Hahaha... You couldn't resist either, could you?"
As he spoke, he forcefully turned Xu Yi's head to look at the altar, raising his voice slightly: "This altar contains demon blood... thousand-year-old demon blood, which is extremely beneficial... Do you want this old man to give you some to increase your cultivation? Huh?"
Jiu deliberately dragged out the last syllable... accompanied by exaggerated, shrill laughter that relentlessly assaulted Xu Yi's eardrums and sanity...
At this moment, Xu Yi only wanted to kill the old man immediately, willing to pay any price... So he went mad and began to manipulate the black bead inside his body to absorb the surrounding yin energy and ghost energy... even the fine blood mist around him entered his body all at once...
Xu Yi felt his body gradually regaining strength. Just a little more... just a little more and he could definitely break free from the shackles of his body and kill the person behind him...
At that moment, the white figure inside the altar let out a piercing scream... Waves of sound, carrying subtle white magical energy, spread out in concentric circles... striking the three people outside the altar, forcing them to involuntarily take two steps back...
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