Chapter 290

Nine moves—[King of Hell] infused divine power into these Eternal Wraiths, allowing them to take revenge on the failed, foolish creator. They only had nine moves. However, the first eight moves had all been blocked by [Venerable Leipu], and not a single punch had truly landed on Samael.

If it ended like this, how could these Eternal Wraiths let go of their resentment and be satisfied?

He had to pause.

Taking this opportunity, Qi Xing grabbed Sasa from his back, hoisted her up, and ignoring her scream of "Huh?!", he shook her in front of the wraiths: "Do you want to beat her up?"

"Huh?!!"

Sasa shrieked, but Qi Xing ignored her, focusing his gaze on the aggregate of Eternal Wraiths.

The dead did not speak.

But the resentment surging from within them, the burning ghost fire, all screamed: "YES! YES! YES!".

Sigh, Qi Xing could completely understand this feeling.

"But you only have one move left. After this punch, your power will vanish."

Qi Xing raised an eyebrow.

"Although [King of Hell] is the God of the Dead, I don't think he's the type to give you infinite refills."

"If anything, the God of Christ is actually very strict."

Because of this, Papiyas—originally Maitreya—felt despair. Because according to [King of Hell]'s style, he certainly wouldn't save everyone in this world. "The road to the [Heavenly Kingdom] is narrow, and few find it." [King of Hell] must screen people who can enter the [Heavenly Kingdom], because saving everyone without screening would be unfair and unjust.

The Eternal Wraiths that [King of Hell] is currently bestowing power upon are indeed victims of Sasa, this failed, foolish creator, but they are also people who failed [King of Hell]'s trial and could not enter the [Heavenly Kingdom].

"After you finish this last punch and enjoy the pleasure of hitting stupid Sasa once, you will have to collapse and continue being eternal corpses and skeletons."

Shaking Sasa in his hand, Qi Xing continued unhurriedly,

"I heard that your suffering will last forever like this; one punch probably isn't worth it."

The dead do not speak.

But at this moment, Qi Xing could still feel some "voices" overflowing from these concentrated wraiths.

—So you want us to give up revenge? Just based on these empty words?

—Dream on.

—Dream on.

—Impossible!

—Even if it's just one punch, we'll make her take it!

—Beat her!

—Beat her!

—Beat her!

—Fuck her to death!

—This world is so rotten, it's all her fault! Her fault! Her fault!

—Make her atone! Make her suffer just like us!

Qi Xing's unhurried speech only exchanged for the anger and silent roars of countless wraiths.

This was also unavoidable.

Revenge belongs to the dead.

Sages say—Revenge cannot give birth to anything.

That should be the case. But so what?

Measuring value by whether something can be created is, at best, the logic of the living. The victims of crimes are already dead. Can the path to compensating the dead be found using the logic of the living? No.

Compensation for the dead can only be justified if it is implemented according to the logic of the dead. That's right, compensation…

To balance the accounts, since it is impossible to compensate for the death of the victims, the only way to achieve equilibrium is to take away the life of the perpetrator.

This is the logic of the dead, this is the wish of the dead.

This is revenge. Following this law is righteous; not following it is evil.

"Indeed, I can understand your point of view."

Qi Xing nodded, but reached out to toss Sasa back onto his back, letting her hold on again,

"But I cannot let you use your last move to hit her. Absolutely not. Ab-so-lute-ly not."

"Even if this move hits and successfully kills me, the remaining shockwave won't be able to hurt her. There is no hope."

It is conceivable that these words immediately drew great dissatisfaction and roars from the wraiths. In an instant, the void of the entire [Inner Realm] echoed with the roars and howls of the Eternal Wraiths!

—Unfair! [Venerable Leipu], do you still have the face to talk to us about fairness and justice?! Do you still have the face to talk about black and white?!

The roaring was so loud, so angry, shaking the entire space. For a moment, even Sasa couldn't help but hug Qi Xing's neck tightly and ask him in a whisper: "Why are you provoking them?!"

"No choice, after all, their resentment is not without reason. If we don't talk these things out, that would be truly unfair."

Qi Xing sighed.

This matter was already very troublesome.

—Actually, if you really want to talk about it, don't these dead, losers, resentful ones, and sufferers in the Sasa Universe have their own responsibilities? Are they so miserable just because Sasa is too stupid and created a universe full of loopholes?

Honestly, that's simply impossible. Qi Xing knew best that even in Sasa's bugged universe, there were many people who found light, found justice, had no resentment, and saw through the suffering.

A universe full of errors can only be said to have a higher difficulty than Qi Xing's baseline universe, with more temptations and stronger darkness, but it hasn't reached the point where it doesn't allow people to seek light.

Dead to this extent, dead people that even [King of Hell] couldn't be bothered to save, certainly have the world's responsibility, but they must also have a part of their own responsibility. How can you only count one side?

So by the same token, if Qi Xing threw all the responsibility onto these dead wraiths themselves, he would be hopeless too. That definitely wouldn't work.

Sigh, a flawed God, a flawed world, flawed sentient beings.

Although the sentient beings in this universe are just "pseudo-souls" created by Sasa, you can't say their suffering is fake, nor can you say that Samael isn't responsible for this mess.

Even if the sentient beings didn't exist, you couldn't say Sasa, this creator, hadn't accumulated any evil karma—this [Atheistic] universe is just too fucking Buddhism.

So Qi Xing could only think of one fair way.

As fair as possible.

"It's useless no matter how you curse. I won't let my woman take your punch, and it's useless no matter how much you resent. Want to talk reason? Don't forget, I'm not a hero—I'm a Demon King."

He said coldly,

"It's just because I [want to] that I'm trying to talk fairness with you."

"So I'm offering a new proposal here."

The suffering of the world, who will bear it? If Sasa, this idiot, foolish creator, cannot bear it, who can replace her?

One who is determined to bear the world cannot shirk their own responsibility for sin.

With that said, Qi Xing took out a [silver coin], the [silver coin] of [Death].

"Transfer all your pain, all the resentment, suffering, and torture from eternity to me."

"From the past, the present, to the future, these pains—I will bear them."

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Sasa: "Huh? Am I your woman now?!"

Qi Xing: "Shut up, this is just the easiest way for people to understand our complicated relationship."

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Let me bear and carry all your pain and suffering.

—How did Qi Xing come up with this idea?

Actually, he had been considering this for a long time. Roughly since after he defeated Xue Ning on Labrys Island, Qi Xing had been pondering what to do after collecting thirty [silver coins].

This Sasa Universe is too absurd; becoming a god is not difficult, just collect thirty [silver coins]. But what to do after becoming a god?

Qi Xing hated this chaotic universe and wanted to create a black-and-white world, but the white part is easy to handle, what about the black stuff?

Throw it all into hell to roast?

What about Sasa? Does she count as pure black?

What about people like Xue Ning? What about the New Humans created by Xue Ning?

Are his physical parents in this life, those people in the Nie Family, evil… are they evil? It feels hard to say.

The universe created by Sasa is an evil world, a world where good people will also do bad things. Not to mention the half-baked ones.

Since he realized that this universe itself is full of errors, it is even harder to blame the people of the world for being full of errors.

If he wanted to make the deceased sentient beings compromise with Sasa, Qi Xing could only think of this method.

…Although when Sasa heard him say this, her first reaction was: "Ah? Are you crazy? Are you crazy about trying to COS my brother?"

"Screw you, I'm covering for you, okay?"

Qi Xing was immediately furious,

"Otherwise, you go deal with them yourself?"

Sasa shrank her neck, looked at the aggregate of Eternal Wraiths, and obediently lowered her head: "I'm sorry, I created such a rotten world, and I looked down on you."

—But if apologies were useful, what would the police be for?

Sasa's apology only brought more anger and roars from the Eternal Wraiths. Many ghosts immediately stretched out their flaming claws to tear at Sasa, but were slapped back by Qi Xing.

An apology alone would absolutely not gain their forgiveness. Even if Sasa cried and begged them to have mercy, swearing that she would do her best to atone in the future, bitterly begging them—they would never forgive her.

To fill the debt of death, the only way to achieve equilibrium is to take away the life of the perpetrator.

But this was something Qi Xing could not accept.

And Qi Xing couldn't say their resentment was wrong either.

So he could only negotiate.

"Even if you really beat Sasa to death, you'll just lie here as mud, never to be reincarnated."

So Qi Xing continued,

"But if you put this aside and cooperate with me… you can get a chance to change the situation."

—Change the situation?

—What's the use of changing the situation? We are already dead.

—If the situation changes in the future, what does it have to do with us?

Unless, unless,

—Can you resurrect us?

Speaking of this, even in the eyes of the Eternal Wraiths, probing light began to flicker.

But Qi Xing shook his head: "I won't do that."

"You are already dead, and there are at least hundreds of millions of you. And, among this bunch of wraiths, there are definitely many guys who actually deserved it."

"If we want black and white to be clear, you cannot throw away all the responsibility. I don't think resurrecting you would be a good thing for this world. I cannot agree to resurrecting you directly."

The past cannot be changed, and the present that has accumulated all the way here is also unchangeable. Otherwise, wouldn't it be the same as Duo Chenzi, thinking that as long as you keep restarting, all problems can be solved?

Even Sasa hadn't fallen to that degree.

"But if you are willing to give all your pain, all the resentment, suffering, and torture from eternity to me, and let it go,"

"…then we still have a chance, a chance to keep moving forward."

—Move forward?

Where to?

"The Millennium Kingdom. Valhalla. The Field of Reeds. The Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss—"

Qi Xing shrugged,

"Although the methods of description are different, perhaps you can go to that place you would have reached if you hadn't failed."

"Otherwise—do you want to regret today's decision sooner or later in eternal death?"