"You canât be sure of that! If you want to go outside like that, I would suggest that you give the Divine Heaven Sect token to someone else. Give it to Mu Zheng and you can go die for all I care! Just donât spoil our mission," Mi Yao told Long Chen.
"As I said, I donât plan on dying so stop being so eager to take the token from me. Iâm not giving the token to anyone," Long Chen replied to her without the least bit of care.
"Then donât leave! Also, I was waiting for you to tell you something. I went to the exact location where the Divine Heaven Sect was expected to appear. From the disturbance in the natural Qi of that area, Iâd say that in about 96 hours, it will appear. So you should stay prepared," She told him.
"Hmm? Itâs the same as you had initially predicted. I think we should get there faster as you might be wrong here as well," Long Chen said with a thoughtful look on his face.
"Oh, right. Iâve already seen people from the Beast Hall and the team of the Mighty Sword Sect. I believe there would be more righteous sects as well. Can we enter the Divine Heaven Sect without having to fight all of them? Thereâs a chance that the Righteous Sects will attack us without giving us a chance to even enter," He further added.
"True, the righteous sects will definitely go crazy after they see us, but we arenât alone," Mi Yao told Long Chen with a smirk on her face.
"What do you mean?" He inquired.
"What I mean to say is that we are not the only evil sect in the world," She answered.
"More evil sects are coming? how many?" Long Chen asked in surprise.
"There are 20 Divine Heaven Sectâs tokens of appreciation in the world. Amongst those 20 tokens, Nine are with the evil sects while the 10 are with the righteous sects," She answered Long Chen.
"Thatâs only 19, what about the last Token?" Long Chen inquired.
"The 20th token hadnât been found in the last 1000 years, so I donât know who has it," Mi Yao replied.
"So itâs 10 against 9, itâs better than 1 against 19 that I assumed," Long Chen chuckled as he said.
"Not really. Amongst the 9 evil sects, the Blood Devouring Sect, Dual Cultivation Sect, and the Profound Yin Snatching Sect are not close to us at all. In fact, it wouldnât be wrong to say that thereâs enmity between us," Mi Yao said.
"Hah, Awesome. You donât even have closeness amongst the evil sects. I shouldâve expected that. Anyways, is the Dual Cultivation Sect what Iâm thinking it is?" Long Chen inquired.
"I donât know what youâre thinking, but the Dual Cultivation Sect disciples choose the path of pleasure to increase their cultivation. I donât like that sect one bit. They are vulgar and overall bad. They kidnap mortals and use them as cultivation cauldrons. The males use the girls to boost their cultivation until the girls die whereas the girls use the males," She said.
"The Dark Soul Sect kills people as well, right? You yourself must have killed many mortals," Long Chen said. In his eyes, they were all killers. The slight difference was that the Dual Cultivation Sect used the practices that disgusted him the most.
"No matter how bad our sect is, we never kidnap thousands of people and take their lives to increase our cultivation!" Mi Yao said with a proud look on her face.
"Maybe, or maybe not. There are so many people in the Dark Soul Sect. You canât say for sure that no one has done something like that," Long Chen casually said as he walked towards the window of his room and looked out on the street.
"Why are you accusing our sect like that! If you werenât a Prime Disciple, I would have decapitated you for such blasphemy," Mi Yao bellowed as she glared at Long Chenâs back.
"Donât get me wrong. Iâm not saying that the sect is bad. From what youâve told me about the Dark Soul Sect, our sect is a hundred times better than the Dual Cultivation Sect! But what Iâm saying is that we are all evil at the end of the day. Even if we arenât as evil as the Dual Cultivation Sect, we are still bad," Long Chen said.
"Hah, So what! Even the righteous sect people kill innocents!" She responded.
"True. Not only the sects but most of the cultivators, in general, have taken a life. Even the mortals have taken the lives of other mortals. This world is just like that. Itâs filled with holes. We all know that itâs wrong, but it canât be changed. Not without the absolute power at least," Long Chen said.
"Hah, You talk like a scholar. Do you want to change the world?" Mi Yao laughed out loud as she said.
"I canât. I donât hold the power, but maybe I can one day," Long Chen muttered.
"Do you think that the God who created us wanted this? The humans chase after immortality, the humans kill others for fame, for power, and for greed. This whole thing is messed up. No one is happy in this screwed up world, " Long Chen said.
"Those who think that they are happy are under the illusion of happiness. If they really opened their eyes and simply looked, they would realize the reality. No one is truly happy. People are born, people die, people kill, people get killed. The only thing thatâs worth something is the family, but even that is screwed up when family members try to kill family members," Long Chen said as he thought about this world from what he had experienced.
"Thatâs right. We are all living under the illusion of happiness trying to do what we think is right for us. Trying to make our lives better with each passing day. We cultivate to achieve immortality, and we kill so that we could survive. I agree that this world is not perfect, but this is all we have," Mi Yao answered him in full seriousness.
"If you become a god, will you change everything?" Long Chen asked.
"Me? Thatâs impossible. I donât even dream of reaching the heaven realm, let alone becoming the god of this universe," Mi Yao replied.
"Just imagine that you succeed. Will you do something to change this world?" Long Chen asked.
"What can I do? Is it really possible to change this world?" She inquired.
"It should be possible. Imagine if every person had immortality. People could live for eternity. No one would chase after cultivation. Wonât that world be amazing?" Long Chen said.
"Hah, That would indeed be good. I wouldnât mind having immortality," Mi Yao laughed out loud as she said.
"Or would it be better to just destroy this whole universe? End all this suffering?" Long Chen muttered.
"If you do that, that would just make you the biggest Evil. The person that took the lives of the whole universe. Not a bad title I must say," Mi Yao said with an amused smile on her face.
"Sorry for ranting. I was just having some random thoughts," Long Chen said as he turned back and looked at her, smilingly.
"Donât worry about it. Everyone has some strange thoughts once in a while. Itâs not like youâre going to have the power to do anything like that," Mi Yao chuckled as she said.
"Maybe," Long Chen answered her.
"Oh right. Donât go anywhere today. Just stay in your room and cultivate," She told Long Chen before she walked out of his room.
"Donât leave the room? Sorry, but I have someone to find," Long Chen said as he glanced back at the window.