Chapter 357 - Flame Spirit Wood Asura Annihilates the Four Empires
By the time the news of victory spread from Imperial Beast City, Lu Ran had already reached the Feather Demon Empire. Deep within its territory, a giant tree reached into the clouds. King and Overlord built their residences on its branches.
Much like the Ape Empire, the Feather Demon Empire also hunted powerful beastmasters and stored them in their nests as food for their newborn. For the Beast Empires, human flesh was a very nutritious aspect of their diet. From their point of view, eating humans was natural, much like how humans ate livestock.
Good and evil depended on whether you were the predator or the prey. Lu Ran was a human, while the Six-Path Flower was a guardian of the human empire. They had come to slaughter the Four Beast Empires to save countless citizens of the Beastmaster Empire. This would, in turn, net them a large sum of merits at the cost of hundreds of millions of lives.
This was the fundamental reason that the Six-Path Flower didn’t believe that there couldn’t be people of absolute good or evil.
Lu Ran is now overflowing with evil energy.
Generally speaking, virtuous or evil energy was a manifestation of the subject’s thoughts. For example, if Lu Ran believed that he was saving the empire by wiping out the Beast Empires, then it would increase the amount of virtuous energy inside him.
On the other hand, if Lu Ran was thinking about destroying these empires for the sake of harvesting resources, then it would naturally increase the amount of evil energy he had.
Sensing the endless amount of malice accumulating inside Lu Ran, the Six-Path Flower knew that he wasn’t what most people would consider a good person. How could Emperor Yun accept such a disciple?
"Well, I’m in a kind of unique situation. I might be gathering a lot of evil energy right now, but I’m a good person deep down inside."
Lu Ran wasn’t able to fully explain himself, so he just focused on picking up resources.
Although the current situation was heart-wrenching, it was still just a projection. Lu Ran wasn’t completely immersed in the experience. No matter how many people he saved, they would still disappear in a couple of days. Resources, however, were forever. They could be taken out of the secret realm.