"Utter nonsense!" Huang Xian Qian Yu immediately shouted in rebuke, turning to look at various immortals, trying to stir up everyone's emotions to exterminate demons and uphold the way, "The ancient mirror can reveal everyone's heart demon. If heart demons are not eliminated, how can one expect a person who has mastered a Sword Immortal's inheritance to be merciful?"
"Ancient mirror, what ancient mirror?" Wu Hen said these words while casually throwing the ancient mirror onto the ground.
The clean and decisive action of smashing the mirror contrasted sharply with his bewildered expression, as if his body and mind were two separate systems.
The ancient mirror shattered into pieces.
This left Huang Xian astounded, followed by a surge of anger. Pointing at Wu Hen, he angrily shouted, "Do you take everyone for fools?"
"We shall set aside the argument about whether the ancient mirror reveals heart demons; even if it does, who has defined that heart demons must be chaos-causing? Since there are scheming and vicious immortals, naturally, there will also be adorable and kind-hearted heart demons. Your immortal thoughts are still too rigid, failing to truly treat everyone equally..." Wu Hen said.
"Utter nonsense! Utter nonsense!" Huang Xian was furious to the point of being unable to say anything else, merely repeating "utter nonsense!"
"Since everyone has deemed our Nuwa Lineage as part of the Black Immortal Lineage, then I, as a true Black Immortal, should also disseminate Heaven's universal values of treating life equally. In our worldview, no matter how filthy or disgusting a person's mind may be, as long as they don't act on it or harm others, the law cannot punish them... If because of some unknown broken mirror, it shines on a person and reveals that they have many negative emotions, a nihilistic tendency, and a desire for slaughter, then I suspect it must be a method of someone whose mind is truly swallowed by heart demons, using such an almost torturous way to obliterate the humanity and nature of immortal descendants. True evil in the world cannot possibly have a mark that everyone can clearly see, or have the words 'evil person' hanging above their head; it's often the kind of intangible evil that, under the guise of being beneficial for the world and everyone's good, encourages everyone to trample on individual interests, individual rights, and immortal dignity, which is far more terrifying." Wu Hen sincerely stated.
Wu Hen's remarks seemed familiar to the comrades of Nuwa Lineage. Isn't this the most advanced thinking that everyone advocated and recognized?
Yet, within the Otherworldly Dust, the Human Clan Ten Thousand Veins seemed never to have established such a system. Indeed, in terms of evolution, many humans have reached higher levels, but in terms of intellectual realm, they are no different from the primitive people, including these immortals.
"Makes sense, Fairy has always fulfilled her duties, never doing anything out of line, even eliminating the arch-enemy for us in Sealing Dragon Lineage."
"Having known Sister Gong Qin for a hundred years, I've never seen her do any harm to humanity, even when we and other junior brothers and sisters often fooled mortals for fun. Sister only advised us to stop and not disrupt mortal affairs."
"Indeed, perhaps we should give Fairy Gong Qin some more time to digest her emotions. Gong Qin bears the world in her heart, a tremendous burden, and is the most likely among us to break through to Golden Immortal. Her cultivation pressure is immense; it's normal for emotions accumulated day by day, year by year, to erupt someday. The theory of the mirror reflecting heart demons is unscientific to begin with... Though our cultivation is Xuanxue, it shouldn't be so mysterious as not to make any sense."
Under the influence of Nuwa Lineage's philosophy, many in Infinite City speak in a modern style; even some gods occasionally utter internet slang.
Advanced and civilized ideas are indeed easily disseminated throughout the universe.
"Deceiving the masses! You... you dare be so ignorant! You must know, once she loses control, all of us will be..." Huang Xian Qian Yu was purple with rage and wanted to scold those speaking for Wu Hen but didn't know what to say.
"Huang Xian elder, don't be stubborn anymore. Do you plan to act rashly in front of everyone? Look at yourself, spirit attacked by rage, heart burning intensely, domineering and inhuman. Change your mindset now while there's time; if you continue down this dark path, even immortals won't save you!" Wu Hen said.
"Indeed, elder, open your mind a bit. We immortal lineage ought to transcend worldly views, but you are overly rigid. We know you mean well, but your approach is wrong."
"Huang Xian elder, turn back now."
"Don't forget your immortal virtues cultivated over the years!"
At some point, the tide of opinion began to shift.
Huang Xian stood there, initially righteous and determined to eliminate the Female Evil Sword Immortal at her conception, yet Wu Hen's modernist rhetoric seemed to have turned him into the one with heart demons. People and immortals around him started advising him?
"Master Uncle, I too feel you are making a mountain out of a molehill. I think Gong Qin hasn't done anything drastic; she probably just wants some quiet here. But if you rush to eliminate her, she'd seem crazy not to resist." At this time, Social Phobia Immortal Bai Yue said quietly.
"You too!!" Huang Xian Qian Yu saw his fellow turn against him too, and his anger surged uncontrollably.
No, he couldn't handle it anymore.
What chaos has this world descended into? It's clear Gong Qin Fairy has fallen into demonic influence; he's fulfilling his master's orders to destroy her Primordial Spirit at critical times, eliminating a significant hidden danger for the world, yet why has he become the villain?
Qian Yu felt his heart demons about to surface; he just wanted to smash all those aiding her.
"Master Uncle, actually you shouldn't embroil in that fellow's argument. Have you considered that he might be stabilizing Fairy Gong Qin momentarily through this? Imagine if we really moved against Gong Qin, with Gong Qin's heart demon-formed strength now, how many in Infinite City would have to die to subdue her? Moreover, others may have a chance to survive, but having identified her as a heart demon, for you, it is certainly death... There are many ways to deal with Demon Immortal, not necessarily deadlocked; as more days pass, Fairy might suppress her heart demons herself, but if you once lead everyone against her, even if she isn't an Evil Sword Fairy, she will become one." Social Phobia Immortal Bai Yue understood Wu Hen's painstaking intention.
Huang Xian Qian Yu also realized that without Bai Yue's assistance, he couldn't seal Gong Qin alone.
If Bai Yue turned against him, he wouldn't survive Gong Qin's sword alone.
"You're suggesting Wu Hen is stabilizing her heart demon with this approach?" Qian Yu said.
"Yes, otherwise if Evil Sword Fairy started a massacre, who in Infinite City could stop her?" Bai Yue commented.
This argument seemed somewhat acceptable to Huang Xian Qian Yu.
But as an elder among immortals, he couldn't publicly lose face.
Feigning openness and generosity, he resolutely said coldly to Wu Hen, "Since you claim to resolve this demon calamity, I'll grant you ten days' respite, if within ten days Gong Qin Fairy's heart demon remains unresolved, then I Qian Yu will crush myself to not leave such a calamity to the world!"