Chapter 1010 – I Just Donst Want to Make That Judgment (2/2)

The Demon Lord looked into his eyes and responded, ”I don't.”

Chen Changsheng said, ”Hatred can't disappear just like this. Your people will also not forget what happened on the northern expedition just because I never massacred your tribes.”

The Demon Lord argued, ”The demi-humans could forget their past hatreds, so why can't the humans? In the end, it's just a question of time.”

Chen Changsheng said, ”Perhaps after many years, the Human race might be able to forget the hatred from back then, but it's very difficult now. I myself cannot do it.”

The Demon Lord arched his brow. ”You never experienced my race invading the south. You live in the most glorious generation of the Human race. I do not understand where your hatred comes from.”

”I've read many books, and the books record the stories from that era. One of these stories has left the deepest impression on me.”

Chen Changsheng remembered the histories of the previous dynasty he had read in the Orthodox Academy's library, falling quiet for a while before continuing, ”Back then, the demons began their southward invasion, their momentum like a fire. The humans just happened to be in the middle of a civil war and were powerless to resist. Divine General Li Xun of the previous dynasty led three thousand elite cavalry to Snowhold Pass. Isolated and without help, they still managed to staunchly defend for one year until Chen Xuanba appeared.”

The Demon Lord slowly narrowed his eyes, a cold glint flashing in them.

No one on the continent did not know of this famous defense, and it had generated a massive controversy in its aftermath that was even now being debated. Even the rhetoricians of Xuelao City would often bring up this matter for discussion. Just what did Chen Changsheng intend by bringing up this matter?

”It was not a staunch defense, but a defense to the death…”

Chen Changsheng took the tea pot from the stove and poured himself a cup.

And then he stared into the melting snowflakes in the cup for a long time.

Back then, cold snow like this might have fallen over Snowhold Pass every day. Did those soldiers and ordinary people have a cup of hot tea to drink?

Naturally not, because they did not even have rations and the trees had been shorn bare of their bark. It was even more desperate than the siege of Luoyang.

When Chen Xuanba led the cavalry to drive back the Demon race's wolf cavalry and entered Snowhold Pass, he saw hell on earth.

Of the three thousand elite cavalry, one thousand four hundred remained, but many of the common people in the city, the women and the children, had died, and it was said that many had been eaten.

And the one who had executed his concubine with one slash of his sword and distributed the meat to the soldiers was that man always famed for his compassion, Li Xun.

This matter had ignited such a massive controversy that it was still being debated, even after a thousand years.

Those people from back then probably did not know even now if they were right or wrong, right?

Snowhold Pass had to be held, or else the wolf cavalry could rush through and menace the heartland of the Human race.

Tianliang County would have no time to rest and the Human race would never be able to last until things turned for the better.

But was this right?

Even the scholar with the most venomous hatred for the demons, even Chen Xuanba, who was Li Xun's most ardent admirer, remained silent on this question.

But most of the participants no longer needed to know the answer.

When the siege of Snowhold Pass was relieved, Li Xun committed suicide on the spot, while the thousand-plus remaining soldiers, from the deputy general to the lowest soldier, eventually died on the battlefield.

Chen Changsheng said to the Demon Lord, ”I do not know how I should judge them. Demons eat humans, and those humans also ate humans, and these were their compatriots. But if they did not guard Snowhold Pass? Many more humans would have been eaten by your race.”

The Demon Lord asked, ”So you have such a deep hatred of my Divine race?”

”I didn't speak clearly just now. This is not hatred.”

Chen Changsheng thought for a few moments, then said, ”I just want to strive for a time where such a tragedy will never again happen to the Human race, where there will no longer be a need to pass judgment on such things.”

The meaning of this statement was exceptionally clear.

If such an unjudgeable tragedy had to take place in the future, he hoped that it would only happen in the Demon race, not the Human race.