750: Chapter 750 The Hundred Faces of All Beings

[Everything in the city was completely visible under your Divine Thought, as clear as if it were right under your nose.]

[In the east of the city, three masked Foundation Establishment Cultivators broke into a house to rob, murdered everyone to eliminate witnesses, and burned over a hundred people to death with a single fire, not even sparing the children.]

[In the west of the city, a Golden Core Cultivator seized a treasure in the middle of the street, piercing the opponent's chest with a single sword. Before the corpse was even cold, the qiankun ring had already been taken away.]

[In the south of the city, two Qi Refining Cultivators fought until they were covered in blood over a Spiritual Plant, only for a third person to launch a stealth attack, kill both of them, and flee with the items.]

[In the north of the city, a dissolute Young Master with Foundation Establishment cultivation publicly flirted with a beautiful woman. When the beautiful woman refused, she was forcibly abducted back home by the Young Master, while passersby all pretended not to see.]

[In just this short while, arson, looting, murder, and the seizure of treasures were happening simultaneously in hundreds of places.]

[Walking on the street, you saw all of this with absolute clarity.]

[Ever since the day you stepped into Tianshu City, you had already grown accustomed to it.]

[The world of immortal cultivation is simply like this; killing people and seizing treasures is completely normal.]

[In a city with a population of over a hundred million, it would instead be abnormal if dozens or hundreds of people did not die every day.]

[You did not make a move.]

[It is not that you do not want to manage it, but that you cannot manage it all.]

[If you manage these hundred places today, there will be a new hundred places tomorrow.]

[After retracting your Divine Thought, you walked leisurely down the street.]

[This main thoroughfare was very wide, with a stone-paved road over ten meters across and a crowd flowing like a tide.]

[Stalls were scattered along the roadside, selling Medicinal Pills, Talismans, and Magical Artifacts—all things used by Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment Cultivators.]

[Cultivators were bargaining in front of the stalls in loud voices, occasionally arguing a few words.]

[The discussion among some of them caught your attention.]

["The Heavenly Palace has gone too far these years, acting like rabid dogs and destroying people's lineages everywhere. Truly hateful."]

["Hush, keep it down. Do you not want to live?"]

["What is there to be afraid of? Are there few people cursing them behind their backs throughout the Immortal Domain?"]

["Indeed, are people not even allowed to speak? This Immortal Domain has more than just the Heavenly Palace as a top-tier power."]

["It is said that the Heavenly Palace is looking for the fellow who destroyed the Liu Clan Territory. Who knows who it is, but they were truly ruthless, flattening the entire Liu Clan Territory."]

[You frowned.]

[Flattening the entire Liu Clan Territory?]

[This Liu Xuerong is truly ruthless.]

[Suddenly,]

["Step aside! Step aside!"]

[A rough voice exploded.]

[Everyone looked towards the source of the sound to see three crimson-scaled horses pulling a three-story sedan chair, charging wildly from the center of the road.]

[Those horses were over two zhang tall, with two pairs of fiery red scaly wings growing on their backs, their hooves making dull, thunderous sounds as they trod on the stone road.]

[The sedan chair occupied most of the road, squeezing over the stalls on the roadside and sending melons and fruits rolling all over the ground.]

[Some people scrambled out of the way clumsily, while others were half a step too slow and brushed by the horse's body, flying out to slam against the wall and vomiting a mouthful of blood.]

["Step aside, step aside! Do not block the way!"]

[Several guards stood on the sedan chair, scanning the front with indifferent gazes and lazy tones, as if driving a group of cattle and sheep blocking the path.]

[Some passersby looked at the three crimson-scaled horses and the three-story sedan chair, their eyes full of envious light.]

["Damn it, the City Lord's concubine is far too extravagant. Those crimson-scaled horses must be worth at least tens of millions of Spirit Stones, right?"]

["Nonsense, a single crimson-scaled horse is already priceless, let alone three."]

["You guys do not understand. Compared to that sedan chair, the crimson-scaled horses are far inferior." A thin man lowered his voice. "The foundation of that sedan chair is paved with spiritual jade alone, the canopy is inlaid with an entire piece of azure colored glass, and the curtains are woven from golden silkworm silk."]

[He paused, covering his mouth and lowering his voice further, "It is said that there are over a dozen maidservants serving inside alone. Any random piece of Spiritual Artifact armor worn by those Foundation Establishment guards is worth more than our entire bodies combined."]

["Raising a crimson-scaled horse is no different from raising a Golden Core Cultivator." An elderly man nearby chimed in, "That is the consumption of three Golden Cores."]

["So expensive? Then even if it were given to me, I could not afford to raise them."]

["Truly fucking extravagant." Someone cursed in a low voice.]

[Some people in the crowd had already withdrawn their gazes and stopped looking.]

[Suddenly,]

[An accident occurred.]

[An old man was walking on the roadside holding a child's hand. Hearing the loud noise behind him, he looked back and his expression changed drastically.]

[He suddenly used all his strength to push the child towards the roadside, and the child staggered and fell to the ground.]

[Before the old man had time to turn around, the huge wheels of the sedan chair had already rolled over.]

[Puff——!]

[With a muffled thud, the sound of shattering bones mixed into the flesh and blood spread across the ground; the old man was crushed into a human patty by the giant wheels.]

[The child lay on the ground, dazed for a split second, then looked up to see that pool of flesh and blood, that human patty.]

[He opened his mouth, tears pattering down onto the ground, and then burst into loud cries:]

["Wah ah… Grandpa!"]

["Wah ah… Grandpa…"]

[The cries were drowned out by the sound of horse hooves, and no one stopped.]

[The sedan chair continued to charge forward, as if nothing had happened.]

[There was one more orphan in the city.]

[Such matters are as numerous as ox hairs in the Immortal Domain, and no one is willing to manage them.]

[Children whom nobody cares for find it very hard to grow up in this cannibalistic world.]

[Someone took a glance, sighed, and walked away quickly.]

[People began to discuss in low voices.]

["Damn it all, this City Lord's concubine is truly a piece of work. Every time she goes out, she crushes a good number of people to death."]

["Who can this be blamed on? Not watching the road?"]

["Look at you, are those human words you are speaking?"]

["What, do you still want to champion a just cause? Then go wipe out the City Lord's Estate."]

[That man opened his mouth, wanting to retort, but ultimately sighed helplessly.]

[In the crowd, a man and a woman looked at the child crying heart-rendingly, exchanging a glance with furrowed brows.]

[At their waists hung the identity jade tokens of the Tianyin Sect.]

["Brother Jing, this concubine of City Lord Jia is too infuriating. Why does the Old Ancestor not manage this?" The female Cultivator looked towards the male Cultivator.]

[The male Cultivator shook his head with a gloomy face, "Younger Sister Rong, the Old Ancestor also has her difficulties. What we can do is try our best to protect these children and let them live well."]

[With that, the two walked in front of the child and squatted down.]

[The female Cultivator stroked the child's head, her eye sockets turning red, "Do not cry anymore. From now on, we are your family."]

[The male Cultivator nodded, "Are you willing to come with us?"]

[The child was streaming with tears, his eyes swollen from crying, and said in a trembling voice, "Wuwuwu… Can you help me bury Grandpa first?"]

[The female Cultivator nodded, rolled up the pool of the old man crushed into a human patty to put it away, took the child's hand, and left together with the male Cultivator.]

[Watching the three of them leave, your gaze turned to the retreating figure of the sedan chair, and your brows furrowed slightly.]

[Killing one person to save one person—you have no interest in managing such trivial matters, primarily because you cannot manage them all.]

[However, killing one person to save ten thousand people—that can still be managed.]

[You know that this City Lord's surname is Jia, and he is a person from Wanling Valley.]

[To solve the problem, one must start from the root cause.]