"I heard that Jian Feixian stands by the side of Governance Ideology because of the friendship between you two. It may be a bit presumptuous to ask suddenly, but is Jian Feixian truly trustworthy?" I asked, "When faced with the ruthless yet effective plan of the human massacre, will he really stand firmly with us, or will he be persuaded by the Evangelical Institute?"

Seeing me directly raise doubts, Fa Zheng was not angry but rather smiled confidently and said, "As for Jian Feixian, you can rest assured.

"Jian Feixian would never resort to the ugly act of raising his sword against the weak just to survive disgracefully. Although he indeed doesn't care as much as I do about the life and death of the masses, it is not without reason that we became friends."

His voice was filled with trust towards his friend.

"Is that so?" I pondered the information about Jian Feixian.

Fa Zheng casually said, "Although he's also someone who's lived for two or three hundred years, when it comes to mental age, he might be close to yours..."

"Mental age?" I asked sharply.

"Uh... don't mind it." Fa Zheng waved his hand, "In any case, he is trustworthy."

Noting this, I let the previous words go in one ear and out the other, then continued to ask, "Then... what about Gua Tianshi?"

"You must have had quite a lot of interactions with Gua Tianshi, right? How do you see him?" Fa Zheng asked earnestly.

"Although Gua Tianshi belongs to the Extraordinaryism Great Impermanence, the society he seeks should be an ideal Governance Ideology society. However, to achieve this Governance Ideology result more effectively, he thinks it's necessary to use Extraordinaryism means first." I said, "He has lived an unimaginably long life, to the extent that the lifespan of ordinary humans is nothing but a fleeting moment in his eyes. What he focuses on is always the entirety of human civilization, and each individual within it fails to capture his attention.

"Perhaps he values 'the whole,' but he is utterly indifferent to 'every individual.' It is not out of arrogance or conceit that he holds such a lofty stance disregarding the individual mortal. Anyone who has lived through such a long period of time would find it difficult to feel for each 'living and dying' mortal.

"The time scale is just too different, even if he doesn't wish to become this way, he's helpless. It's like the person who climbed to the mountain peak can only view the masses below from 'the perspective of standing at the peak.' This is a natural transformation."

As I spoke, I recalled Xuanming. Perhaps similar symptoms also occurred in Xuanming.

"Indeed... although I too have lived for several hundred years, during my youth, when the current people refer to as the Song Dynasty, in the eyes of far more ancient Great Impermanence like Gua Tianshi, I am just a naive young man." Fa Zheng lamented, "What modern people refer to as 'modern' might mean recent decades, but to Gua Tianshi, possibly the time from my birth in the Song Dynasty to the twenty-first century is just one part of what he holds as 'modern' in his heart."

He paused for a moment and continued, "I understand your point, you mean to say... Gua Tianshi is an existence overly far-sighted due to his own experiences. Because he has a truly extraordinary perspective, he does not care about the current human history. If he can restart human history by slaughtering almost all humans in this world, leaving only thousands to multiply, then he would execute it without hesitation... is that what you're saying?"

"Isn't that the case?" I retorted.

"No." Fa Zheng declared certainly.

"Why do you say so?" I wondered, "Do you understand Gua Tianshi very well?"

Fa Zheng suddenly asked a question out of nowhere: "Zhuang Cheng, tell me, for those who worship God, who is more detestable, heretics or unbelievers?"

"Naturally, it's heretics." I said, "Compared to external enemies, those who appear within one's own ranks are more hated. It has been so since ancient times."

It was somewhat strange for a man in his twenties like me to speak of "since ancient times" to this old Great Impermanence born in the Song Dynasty.

But Fa Zheng did not mind this point, nodding before saying, "Even though I am called God and have my own believers, if I have to say I have a 'God' to worship, it is the future beautiful society I wish to achieve, depicted by Governance Ideology, an ideal society.

"Gua Tianshi is the same, yet unlike me, he chose to stand on the Extraordinaryism side. Zhuang Cheng, can you understand my feelings? For a road I firmly believe in, a senior far wiser and experienced than me ultimately chose a path completely different from mine... how shocking and painful is that for me.

"Even so, I have never denied my belief, not for a moment. And I must admit, Gua Tianshi does not need to say anything, his mere existence itself continually questions me. If you ask who I view as most opposed in Luo Mountain, that person is neither Ming Zhuo, who disregards the masses, nor Shen Zhao, who thinks only of himself, nor even King Zhuanlun, who became a traitor, but Gua Tianshi.

"Precisely because of this... precisely because Gua Tianshi is the number one enemy in my heart, I understand him thoroughly, to the extent that I can predict his every reaction upon hearing about the Evangelical Institute and the human genocide plan..."

"He absolutely will not stand on the side of the Evangelical Institute."

His voice was so firm, making me involuntarily ask, "Why do you think so?"

"Actually, in your previous depiction of Gua Tianshi, the answer was already there." Fa Zheng said solemnly, "Gua Tianshi cannot invest emotions in 'every individual,' so he invests all his emotions in 'everyone.' To be precise, he is filled with zeal for the civilization humanity has accumulated from millions of years ago, from the Paleolithic era to today.

"Throughout the long history of Luo Mountain, many Great Impermanences have become disillusioned because they grew tired of the mortal world. On the contrary, Gua Tianshi, who has lived for countless millennia, still actively functions. This is because of his profound love for the human civilization he's witnessed growing firsthand...

"Although this love has somewhat twisted and become cruel, it is with this spiritual power that he has sustained himself until now. To have him personally destroy or stand idly by while others obliterate all the history accumulated by humanity up to this point, in a bid to save the world or continue the race through such means? In his eyes, that would be the ultimate reversal of priorities.

"Zhuang Cheng, according to what you said, Huang Quan should have invited the Taoyuan Village Master, Xuanming, and Ming Zhuo on behalf of the Evangelical Institute, but I have never received such an invitation. I still don't know if Jian Feixian received it, but similarly, I believe that Huang Quan did not extend the invitation to Gua Tianshi either. Because they—especially Yama—must know very well that Gua Tianshi would never allow such a plan."

So that's how it is. It seems that what Huang Quan said to me in the final battle was just empty threats.

"In that case, I should probably hand over this technical data to Weichi. In terms of array cultivation, Luo Mountain can be said to be second to none. That No. 7 really knows how to pick people."

Saying this, Fa Zheng suddenly showed a cautious expression, looked at me, and asked, "You're not hiding any other secrets from me, are you?"

He seemed quite startled by the secrets I had revealed in quick succession earlier, like a bird startled by the mere twang of a bowstring.

"No more, probably." I thought for a moment and said, "By the way, I want to ask you about Ming Zhuo... did he ever target anyone around me?"

Fa Zheng asked unexpectedly, "You really don't know about this?"

"I haven't met Mazao and the others yet." I said.

"I'm not talking about that." Fa Zheng said, "Oath, the oath... have you forgotten?"

I was baffled by his words and only remembered after a couple of seconds. Right, when Ming Zhuo was defeated by me, he made an oath never to target Mazao again.

Additionally, I also demanded that he not target anyone around me and that he could not purge the Xuanming Fire from his body. I even injected my flame into his body as a backdoor.

This oath wasn't just a verbal promise but a mysteriously binding oath with objective constraints. However, knowing that such things have little binding power on a cunning Great Impermanence like Ming Zhuo, I never dwelled on it. But the most crucial part of this oath wasn't the constraint; it was the sensory connection it would create in another place should Ming Zhuo break the oath.

I briefly checked the Power of Oath that resided within my soul and found it had unknowingly become riddled with scars. In other words, Ming Zhuo had already broken his oath. Not only the part about "not targeting Mazao and anyone around me," but he also seemed to have purged the Xuanming Fire within the past four months, along with the flames I had injected into his body.

Ming Zhuo is now completely unrestrained.

The reason why the Power of Oath provided no prior alert... the only thing I can think of is that because I was in the Post-mortem World earlier, anything Ming Zhuo did in the real world couldn't span time and space to reach me.

"Do you want to take revenge on Ming Zhuo?" Fa Zheng asked.

I replied with a question, "Are you planning to stop me?"

"He is currently still the Lushan Great Impermanence. According to my rules, I cannot allow you to fight amongst yourselves. In the ideal order I wish to establish, even a Great Impermanence cannot be an exception." Fa Zheng pondered and said, "However, he did dishonor his oath first, so taking everything into account... as long as you promise the battle won't affect a large number of innocent people, I won't interfere in this matter."

Then, he paused slightly, and his gaze became sharp, "…perhaps… I might even join forces with you to deal with Ming Zhuo."

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