Chapter 170 - Morality?
"We need to do something, there should be something more here." Hong Luo spoke with frustration.
"We’ve already looked enough. There doesn’t seem to be anything else here." Hei Bao finally spoke after getting a hold of himself.
The faces of his subordinates and the other mercenaries dropped upon hearing his words. But then he spoke again.
"Fear not, we will eventually figure out something. In fact, we do know of one such location that we had previously found before."
Everyone looked up at him with questioning faces.
"The abandoned warehouse!" Lin Mu suddenly spoke.
"But didn’t we already investigate that before?" A member of Hei corps spoke up.
"Yes, of course we did. But before we didn’t know why they were gathering the mercenaries and had thought whether if they were just hiding corpses. But now we know that they have a proper use for them, they need their blood. That means they have to keep them alive and fed to keep their blood fresh."
"But for doing this, they will need another location that is as large as this to keep them. Also, after the beast attack, I doubt they will take the risk of setting up a place like that here." Hei Bao explained.
While he could understand the meaning behind the words themselves, he could not understand the context. Senior Xukong had just told him that it was something that humans called it.
"Cultivation techniques themselves are rather neutral. It is only the humans and other intelligent beings that give them a bias. It all depends on the perspective. While here we can see that this ’master’ of the culprits is gathering blood for himself, it is only bad because the humans are the ones being hurt."
"If it was beasts in question here, not many would mind it. But such is the truth of the universe." Xukong replied.
Lin Mu thought over it, but still felt a bit lost.
"Then senior you mean that it is right even if humans are getting killed and I should not mind it?" Lin Mu questioned, feeling uneasy.
"No... rather, as long as it is something that bothers you, you should mind it. It does not matter if it’s humans, beasts, demons or immortals. These things that you hear, good and evil are but a matter of perspective. But in the end, all that is right in the world is the might of the strong."
"If you are strong, you can decide what to do and you won’t have to mind what others think of it. Such is the way of the strong. A strong will comes from a firm mind, and a firm mind comes from an unyielding heart. And finally, the fastest way to gain an unyielding heart is to be ruthless. Be ruthless to your foes and be even more ruthless to yourself.
Only then would you survive and flourish in the cultivation world." Xukong explained.
Lin Mu went silent after hearing the words of senior Xukong. At first, he felt that the words of senior Xukong seemed to be wrong. Lin Mu had always been taught by his parents to be kind and righteous. He didn’t understand how it would be correct to equate the killings of humans to that of the beasts.
Lin Mu also didn’t understand why senior Xukong had told him about this right now and had related it to the sacrifice of the mercenaries. He was feeling frustrated but knew that being hasty would not do him any good. Instead, he decided to calmly think over it.
Lin Mu did not speak anything, even when he was given food to eat and simply ate it before returning to cultivate again.