After watching Xia Li flee with Qiu Fu, the fox clan leader did not remain idle.She imdiately went to help Wang Xian put out the flas around the army formation, partly to keep him from venting his anger on her tribe.She truly was grateful that Xia Li had shown himself openly and taken Qiu Fu away. He had drawn all the hatred onto himself.Xia Li had a ans of borrowing Void Refining power for a short ti. If he had used it from the beginning to flee outright, Wang Xian would never have been able to stop him.Even if Wang Xian might still have acted reasonably afterward, the people behind Wang Xian were not guaranteed to do the sa.Half an hour later...the shamanic fire was finally extinguished.Wang Xian had rushed into the blaze to save people and now looked thoroughly battered. The fire was extrely strange. It would not stop until it had burned through all available spiritual energy, forcing him to draw spiritual energy from others to help suppress it.Burns covered his entire body.He was a Soul Transformation cultivator. He could endure that fire.His soldiers could not."Fox demon, no matter what, thank you. I will list your tribe among those not to be campaigned against. But I also hope you never again involve yourself with that tiger demon and that human rebel."Wang Xian's integrity was famous throughout the Demon-Hunting Army, so the fox clan leader believed his promise."Commander Wang, are we really doing the right thing? How long has it been since you fought a battle in the true sense of the word?"The fox clan leader looked at the burn-covered Wang Xian.She had been present during that battle when he held the pass. She had seen his spirit with her own eyes. Though they had been mortal enemies, he had still inspired admiration in her.That war had been unjust from the demon side to begin with, so she had always had reservations about it. Naturally, she had ended up holding a favorable impression of a man like Wang Xian, who had embodied righteousness.Her question made Wang Xian freeze.Ever since gaining fa, he really had not fought a battle that made his blood boil.He had gone from a vanguard willing to die in combat to a powerful noble enjoying life in the rear."Not since those seven days at the pass has there been a true great battle. All these years, every enemy I faced was weaker than ...""I... seem to have gotten used to preying on the weak."Thoughtfulness appeared in Wang Xian's eyes.He seed to realize sothing at last. He had been ruined.Basking in fa and profit, he had grown soft in comfort and lost the spirit that once drove him."And demonkind is any different? We beasts cultivated ourselves into demons. Was it only so we could return to a jungle where the strong devour the weak? The whole demon race has gone wrong... and so has humanity."The fox clan leader stepped forward and drew a pill from her sleeve, handing it to Wang Xian.Without the slightest suspicion, he took it and swallowed it, and a look of recollection appeared in his eyes."You're that fox demon from back then?""What do you think?"A strange light passed through the fox clan leader's gaze.Of everything in Wang Xian's life, the seven days he had guarded the pass remained the most unforgettable.During that battle, there had been a fox demon skilled in the healing arts. She treated both humans and demons alike. She had even helped tend his wounds, all while telling the injured over and over that the war was unjust and they should not throw their lives away."Back then, I chose what I thought was the greater good of my race. I gained both fa and profit from it, but looking back now, all of it was just a set of shackles."The so-called great righteousness he had once upheld had, over the years, completely diverged from the righteousness in his own heart.He was commander of the Demon-Hunting Army.He was supposed to hunt demons.But the missions handed down by the upper ranks were always to chase down human traitors, or even lead troops in attacks on human sects deep in the interior. He hardly ever entered demon territory anymore. He rarely even went into Manzhou."What do you plan to do next? Continue pursuing the 'mutual benefit' you spoke of?""I'm tired. The one who sent here was the anti-demon young general, Mo Ye. He won't give up on that tiger demon. She's the key to his own Soul Transformation."Wang Xian spoke a na that made demons tremble: Mo Ye, the anti-demon young general.This man carried a peerless reputation. Though only a Nascent Soul cultivator, he had beaten so many Soul Transformation demon lords that they could only flee in panic.Even Wang Xian, himself once one of the great prodigies, could only barely hold his ground against Mo Ye, despite Mo Ye still being in the Nascent Soul realm.Without question, he was one of humanity's future pillars."So it's that devil..."
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"Then you should understand. The wars he directs are never about victory or defeat. What he wants is casualties on both sides.""Every killing you committed during those seven days at the pass beca blood food for him. Don't you think you're like a dog he raised?"The fox clan leader hated Mo Ye more than anyone.At her words, Wang Xian only lowered his head and gave a bitter laugh."I once dread of carrying a sword to the ends of the earth. Then later I had a family. They wanted to settle down, to have a ho.""And so I gained a weakness... and lost my dream.""My entire family's fate now rests on a single thought from Mo Ye.""I suppose I really have been tad by him. That's enough. I'm going back."Wang Xian regretted it.But it was too late.When he had accepted the order to campaign against the fox tribe, he had wondered whether he might et that fox demon again soday. Now that they had t once more, the question in his heart was answered.He never should have stepped into those cheers and beco one more man swept along by them.He should have been a proud lone wolf, not a dog bowing and scraping before its master."By the way, you should still be able to contact him. Pass on a ssage for .""He is called a human traitor. Rejected by humanity both within and without.""But if humanity itself is unjust, then what is wrong with rebelling against it?""That path is the path of an asura. Tell him to take care of himself."Wang Xian left.Not one of his soldiers or officers had died. He himself was the most badly injured of all, but once he returned, Mo Ye would surely punish him severely.Mo Ye would only ask one question:in the face of the larger picture, what did the sacrifice of a re three thousand n matter?The fox clan leader simply watched him go.There was no shortage of clear-eyed people like them in this world, but the clearer they saw, the more they suffered, tornted by their own helplessness.Whenever they tried to do sothing, the fire in their hearts was often extinguished before it even had the chance to rise.Not even ashes remained.The Great Era was approaching. Chaos would rise.The prodigies who should have been gathering montum to overturn the world were dying or kneeling instead.The new king who should have appeared to lead the Great Era still had not shown himself. His place existed, but no king's shadow could yet be seen."Qiu Fu, you should have beco king. I am already cold ash.""But there is still fire left in his heart. Can the two of you make it?"The fox clan leader looked in the direction Xia Li had fled.From the mont Xia Li chose to protect Qiu Fu, for whatever reason, that remaining spark had already been lit.But in a world this dark, such fire would naturally look glaringly bright.And irritating.Creatures that lived too long in darkness hated fire most of all.A few days later.Inside Demon-Severing Pass, at the Demon-Hunting Army encampnt.Wang Xian knelt on the ground, blood at the corner of his mouth, staring at the black-robed young man before him.That man was none other than Mo Ye, the anti-demon young general.Wang Xian had just finished reporting what had happened. Mo Ye, after listening, did not waste a single word before slapping him."Wang Xian, Wang Xian. Why do you always act on your own? Under any circumstances, the mission objective should co first. A soldier's duty is to complete the mission. Dying for the mission is their glory as well.""You are unfit to command. So, do you intend to redeem yourself through rit, or would you prefer to be dealt with by directly?""May I ask how I may redeem myself?""A city on the border has been in too close contact with demonkind. I suspect the entire city has already defected to the demons. Go slaughter the city.""So after I massacre a city and shoulder the infamy and karmic burden, you get to enjoy the blood qi?"Wang Xian raised his head.For once, he showed a hard edge.Mo Ye was not even pretending anymore this ti. Was this a test of loyalty?This was the upper brass of the Demon-Hunting Army.Presumably, the demon side's Human-Subjugation Army was no different.On the battlefield between the two races, all that remained were humans and demons convinced they were serving their race's future through so higher righteousness."Heh. What, you want a share too? You should've said so earlier."At once, Wang Xian felt his body freeze in place, completely suppressed by the aura of Mo Ye, a re Nascent Soul cultivator.The other man had grown even stronger."Young General... stop!""Wasn't this what you asked for? Then I'll share it with you!"
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