Chapter 1897 (1/2)

“Why are you resisting the enforcers? Emperor Yun is the savior of the universe, and the enforcers are directly subordinate to Emperor Yun himself! Only they can enforce a region’s order and protect a realm’s peace!”

“You are the ones who are confused and brainwashed by Emperor Yun! He is a devil person, the vilest of them all! He has killed so many people, massacred so many star realms, and exterminated so many clans for the sake of revenge, and now he’s creating these so-called enforcers to control the rest of us! Are you seriously going to defend a tyrant!?”

“Exactly! All these disasters only happened because Emperor Yun was dealt the worst betrayal imaginable in the universe! Did you not see how ugly those king realms he destroyed truly were? Are you going to deny the fact that he saved the Primal Chaos?”

“So you’re saying that he can kill innocents because it’s part of his revenge? He can kill whoever he wants because he saved the universe?”

“There are many star realms who strongly rejected the enforcers at the beginning, but can you name even one who hasn’t submitted to their rule yet? You’re the one who’s being stubborn here! If you’re really so righteous, then I dare you to repeat everything you just said before an enforcer!”

“I… dare not, but I am righteous! No matter how powerful Emperor Yun becomes, I will never allow him to distort my beliefs! There exists karma and retribution in this world. One day, a hero will slay the leader of the devil people and free the three divine regions from their filthy darkness! When that day comes, all of you will be judged as sinners!”

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This fierce argument had happened between two disciples of the same sect. It had taken place in a middle star realm on the edge of the Southern Divine Region.

This wasn’t the first time Yun Wuxin had witnessed something like this. Her father had a lot of supporters, worshippers and reverers, but the opposite was equally true.

This time, something about the disciple’s argument triggered her and caused her to clench her teeth in anger. “How dare he curse my father! What a vile person!”

Yun Che simply smiled and asked her, “You’ve experienced many things in your journey already, Wuxin. By this world’s standards, do you think I’m a good or bad person?”

Yun Wuxin replied without thinking, “Of course you’re a good person! If it wasn’t for you, this universe would’ve turned into a true hell. All these people who call you a monster are just rotten, pretentious hypocrites who love to lord over others with their faulty logic! If they went through everything you did, they would’ve done much worse! Hmph!”

Still fuming, she glared at the disciple who cursed her father to be slain by a “hero” and said, “If it was me, I… I… I would press his face into the ground for a wash for ten days and nights!”

“Hahahaha!” Yun Che couldn’t help but laugh at Yun Wuxin’s utter inability to be ruthless.

“Aren’t you angry at all, father?” asked Yun Wuxin while puffing out her cheeks.

“Angry? With him?” Yun Che shook his head wryly. “If I were to appear before him right here and now, his knees would buckle, his so-called beliefs would evaporate into nothing, and he might even soil his pants out of sheer terror. If I wished for him to die, I wouldn’t even need to raise a hand or say a word. He could be the sect master’s own son, and his sect would still kill him before groveling at my feet for forgiveness.”

“I would be quite the unsightly great emperor if I allowed such a man to affect me in any way.”

As Yun Wuxin listened to her father’s reply, her anger slowly gave way to thoughtfulness.

“Free speech is free, but it takes real qualifications to assess anything.” Yun Che continued, “There is no such thing as absolute good or evil in this world. They are what they are because someone defined them, and in this universe, there is only one person who can define me as good or evil.”

Yun Wuxin waited patiently and curiously for her father to continue.

“Myself.”

Yun Che declared calmly and evenly.

“If you call yourself good, then you are good? If you call yourself bad, then you are bad?” Yun Wuxin clarified.

“Correct!” Yun Che inclined his head.

“And that’s because…” Yun Wuxin thought for a moment before answering haltingly but understandingly, “... you are the highest authority of them all? You are the victor who defeated everyone and everything?”

“Mn.” Yun Che nodded again. “When the Dragon God Realm was still the sovereign realm, the Dragon Monarch’s order was the mandate of heaven, the Dragon God Realm’s will was the will of heaven itself. All of the God Realm revered, yearned for, worshiped, and praised them for who they were.”

“But today, the Dragon God Realm is known as the Sinned Dragon Realm. Thanks to your Auntie Wuyao machinations, the once untouchable Dragon Monarch and Dragon Gods are reviled and looked down upon, and the crippled descendants of the Dragon Gods are treated with pity and indifference.”

“You would think that this is an impossible transition or at least one that will take a long time to accomplish, but the reality is that it happened in just a couple of years.”

Yun Che lifted his right hand. It was clean, white, and perfectly unblemished. It had also been a while since it was last stained by blood.

“In this world, no one has the right to define me as good or evil, but I have the right to define anyone in the world as anything.”

“The strong control everything, and the weak don’t even have the right to decide their own fate. It’s no profound truth. It is just the most basic rule of survival no matter what world or plane a person hails from.”

Her father’s words entered her ears and nestled inside her heart. When she looked at that disciple who so dared to criticize her father, she no longer felt even a shred of anger toward him.

“Do you want me to work harder and become someone who can control their own fate, father? Someone who cannot be defined by others as good or evil?” Yun Wuxin asked.