Chapter 1082.2: All People of This World, Pressing Onward Wave After Wave - Part 2

Afterward, the two continued climbing the mountain. When they reached the main hall of the sect, Chen Chao stopped and looked over the main hall, seeming to consider whether he would need a second punch to smash it apart.

Feng Liu raised a hand and wiped his forehead, sighing with emotion, “How is it that climbing my own mountain has left me sweating so profusely?”

He was joking. There was not a trace of sweat on his forehead, but Xu Fuchen behind him had genuinely been sweating profusely for quite some time.

Only after hearing Feng Liu say this did he reach up and touch his own forehead.

A hand full of sweat.

As for his back, it had long since been soaked through.

On the way up the mountain just now, he himself could sense that there had probably been three or four occasions when the Morning Dew Sect might have become a thing of the past today.

He had always regarded someone like Chen Chao with a sense of awe. He did not treat Chen Chao as a young man, but genuinely believed that the other party was capable of destroying the Morning Dew Sect at the slightest disagreement.

As for the reason, one could simply find one afterward.

After all, Chen Chao now had far too much prestige and too high a position throughout the world, and his words carried far too much weight.

In the past, such things had only happened when Infatuation Daoist Temple had reached its peak.

There had been several temple masters of Infatuation Daoist Temple in history who could truly command the world.

Especially at this moment, with Chen Chao staring at the main hall over there, Xu Fuchen's heart was in his throat.

Fortunately, in the end, this young Lord Warden Commander turned and walked away instead of throwing a punch at the main hall. Xu Fuchen's heart finally felt a little more at ease.

Afterward, the three of them arrived beneath a pavilion in the rear mountain.

This place was rather secluded, and the scenery was also quite pleasant. Feng Liu would occasionally come here to read, while Xu Fuchen had far too many things to deal with day in and day out and actually rarely came here.

After the three sat down, Chen Chao rubbed his forehead and looked somewhat tiredly into the distance.

Feng Liu smiled and looked toward Xu Fuchen, “I'll have to trouble Fuchen with getting some tea.”

Xu Fuchen stood up and hesitated in place for a moment before turning and walking into the distance.

Looking at Xu Fuchen's back, Chen Chao said softly with a sigh, “He is the one who worries the most. For the Morning Dew Sect, he has given far more than you have.”

“I told him long ago that he should be the sect master and I could be the vice sect master. It’s just that Fuchen wouldn’t agree, and neither would the others in this world. Sometimes reputation is a burden, the heaviest tortoise shell of all.”

Feng Liu rubbed his head. He had no interest in being the sect master either. It was just that if such a sect was to be established, then the sect master could only be him, and no one other than him.

This was truly being unable to help oneself.

Chen Chao smiled, then said seriously, “Can we speak frankly now?”

Feng Liu nodded his head.

Chen Chao looked at this number one person among the itinerant cultivators. After hesitating for a moment, he still did not know how to begin.

Feng Liu did not mind. Instead, he spoke first on his own. “Before Lord Warden Commander came to Suining Mountain, Fuchen was already very worried. He felt that now that Lord Warden Commander had reached such a position, with such high status and great power, if you suspected that the Morning Dew Sect had also colluded with the demon race, would you directly use thunderous means to destroy the Morning Dew Sect? After all, the Morning Dew Sect has at most two cultivators at the end of Nepenthe, which is more or less the same as the Autumn Sound Sect.”

Chen Chao said, “Better to believe it exists than to believe it does not. It is better to kill three thousand by mistake than to let a single one go. From the perspective of the greater situation, that is naturally the safest choice. Moreover, there are indeed suspicious points about the Morning Dew Sect.”

Feng Liu nodded and said, “This is indeed what most people would choose, what most people would do. From Lord Warden Commander’s perspective, even I, Feng Liu, find it entirely reasonable.”

Chen Chao did not hurry to speak. He simply looked at Feng Liu.

Feng Liu smiled. “But there are always exceptions.”

Chen Chao frowned. “Were some of those suspicious points deliberately planted by you?”

Feng Liu did not answer this question. Instead, he continued, “People like us have lived for more than a hundred years. We have seen all kinds of people, and there is a problem with that. Over these hundred over years, whether it is this world or the people in it, there seems to be an established way of doing things and established motives for doing them.”

After a pause, Feng Liu put it another way. “It is as though after seeing too many people who are the same, you will eventually imagine those you have never seen, those who come later, as being the same kind of people.”

Feng Liu smiled. “That is naturally wrong, but whether it is human nature or the human heart, that is simply how it is. It is very difficult to change.”

“This official can understand that.”

Chen Chao glanced at Feng Liu.

Feng Liu continued, “After watching this world for a hundred years, I cannot really say whether I am tired of it or fond of it. I simply have no particular feelings. People like us can be considered detached from the world, so what does it matter to us what this world is like?”

“In other words, if my Morning Dew Sect only wanted to maintain things as they are, then it would be enough to do what we promised the imperial court. We would not think too much about other things or ask too many questions, and that would be fine. As for you, Chen Chao, what kind of person you, the Lord Warden Commander, are, that would have nothing to do with us.”

“It would have even less to do with me, Feng Liu.”

Feng Liu gave a self-mocking smile. “After all, I, Feng Liu, have been living freely in this world for a hundred years. I can continue living carefree.”

Chen Chao did not speak.

Feng Liu looked at him and said, “But the world really is getting better.”

The Great Liang Dynasty had not stood still over these past two hundred years or so. This had been most obvious over the past twenty years.

“Some people are dissatisfied that cultivators’ status has gradually declined, but I am very satisfied. When I was an itinerant cultivator, I saw far too many cultivators kill ordinary commoners at the slightest disagreement.”

“They were not necessarily at fault. If you traced their relations back several generations, perhaps they were even relatives. Yet they simply died like that, as though there were no reason for it.”

Feng Liu said, “We are the very people who came out of those fields, yet in the end we stand high above them, looking down on them and treating them like pigs and dogs. Is that right?”

Chen Chao said, “Of course not.”

“What the imperial court has done over these years has been very good.”

Feng Liu looked into Chen Chao’s eyes and said, “I heard about some things before as well. In Dragonhorn Commandery, those commoners were not afraid of death and insisted on standing before you.”

Chen Chao gave a bitter smile.

"Why is that? Of course it was because they felt that you, the Lord Warden Commander, were truly doing things for them. Naturally, they were unwilling to let you die.”

Feng Liu smiled. “It is just that something like that is a matter between you and them. I have never experienced it myself.”

“From a distance, all you can see are the good things. That is why you need to walk up to them and take another look.”

Feng Liu said, “That is the only way.”

Chen Chao said nothing, merely looking at Feng Liu.

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