The people in the collapsing iron gave the immortal ship a small shock from the Holy Lord.

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She moved quickly and soon saw the source of the light.

That was Feixiao... and Hulei.

Hu Lei seemed to be talking to Fei Xiao about something.

"You always leave the toughest battles to yourself, just like now, you don't know what escaping is."

"Isn't it strange? As an enemy, I know you better than your comrades."

"Hoo Lei!!"

Feixiao glared at Hulei, while Baizhi felt a burning sensation on her body, her anger intensifying, mixed with a bloodthirsty impulse.

But Hu Lei looked on with enjoyment. "This rage... it's so nostalgic. I know it never sought victory, but the hunt itself, isn't that right, Fei Xiao?"

"The bloodline of the Buli people within you is boiling; it craves the hunt. You think you're saving people? Actually, you're unleashing your animalistic nature."

Hu Lei's words echoed throughout the space like the whispers of a demon.

"Hey, Hu Lei, you're still alive."

Bai Zhi flew to Fei Xiao's side and calmly greeted Hu Lei.

"It's you?!"

Upon seeing Bai Zhi, Hu Lei looked on in astonishment. "You shouldn't be here."

This is a special mental space formed by the negative emotions of Chiyue and Feixiao, which is generally difficult to enter.

Unless Angelica dahurica is of the type of species called Suiyang.

But Hu Lei clearly remembered that Bai Zhi was a member of the Wisdom Clan.

Do the Vidyadharas (Buddhist practitioners) have this ability?

Or is Angelica dahurica actually a messenger of memories?

"But I did show up, so what profound insights did you want to share with Feixiao before?"

Bai Zhi asked.

"Miss Bai Zhi, you shouldn't have come here! It's dangerous here!"

Without hesitation, Fei Xiao pushed Bai Zhi and tried to turn around and leave.

Bai Zhi is the hope of the Immortal Ship; what if something happens to her here?

"Sister Feixiao, there's no need for that. No matter what, I am an Envoy. You're making me sound like some fragile piece of trash that would die at the slightest touch. Besides, do you see an exit here?"

"Eh?"

Fei Xiao was taken aback. "You're the messenger?"

"...General Jingyuan's sense of secrecy is truly remarkable. Sister Feixiao still doesn't know that I am the messenger."

"But wasn't that deity given to you by Jing Yuan?"

Feixiao subconsciously questioned.

"Hmm...who says there can't be a second God?"

Bai Zhi winked playfully.

Feixiao: ?

She felt her brain wasn't working properly. If what Bai Zhi said was true, then the Luofu Immortal Ship now had two Divine Lords?

Is the Emperor really that generous?

Hu Lei, who was standing to the side, hesitated to speak.

Are you two treating me like I don't exist?

"Feixiao, and Baizhi, this isn't the outside world. Do you think the power of the Envoy can allow you to do whatever you want here?"

"It seems Mr. Hu Lei has some profound insights to share. Please speak, and I'd like to observe as well."

Hu Lei's words drew their attention back from other places.

"Humph……"

Two puffs of white breath came out of Hu Lei's nose, and it was clear that he was very unhappy with Bai Zhi's indifferent attitude.

But he still managed to conjure up a bunch of things.

There were many pilgrims, holding innocent people in their hands, and painful cries were coming from the mouths of those innocent people.

Feixiao frowned and shattered these illusions with a single strike.

"Hehe, I think the people of Xianzhou have shown you these scenes countless times, but all of this is just what they want you to see."

"They make you fight for the weak, but they don't tell you that this is what the universe is really like after all the pretense of warmth is peeled away."

"When the Immortal Ship is weak, they pretend to be victims to gain your sympathy; when the Immortal Ship is strong, they crown you as an avenger and ask you to uphold justice."

"That's your doubt... You're doubting whether what you're doing is just."

Hu Lei's laughter slowly drifted out.

"When the Immortal Boat was weak, it was hunted by the Bu Li people, but when it became strong, it turned around and hunted the Bu Li people. Justice and kindness are nothing but the law of the jungle and the survival of the fittest."

Hu Lei's phantom appeared, and he looked at Bai Zhi, "Even you are one of them, Dragon Lord of Luofu. In this world, there is no emotion, nothing else, only exploitation."

"Your skills have made the people of the Immortal Ship appear hypocritical towards you. They are just using you as a tool, yet you feel good about yourself. It's truly pathetic."

Bai Zhi scoffed disdainfully, "Is that all you've got? Just sophistry. The law of the jungle is indeed true, but so are compassion, unity, and so on. Ignoring any one side and looking at the problem from a single perspective will lead to errors."

"If the Immortal Boat people abandoned or even enslaved the weak like the Bu Li people, there would be no alliance as we have now. Instead, the alliance would have long since disintegrated and become a branch of the Abundant People."

"Unity allows us to draw strength from the collective, compassion ensures that we do not abandon the weak, and all of these factors have created the alliance we have today."

"The biggest difference between animals and humans is that humans cooperate and achieve win-win results, rather than following the bloodthirsty and brutal law of the jungle."

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"Sister Feixiao, there's no need to take these words to heart."

Bai Zhi turned her head and said to Fei Xiao.

"Hmm... this little thing can't sway me!"

But as Feixiao finished speaking, even more phantoms appeared ahead.

It was a group of Cloud Cavalry, along with General Huaiyan and Jingyuan, who were pointing their weapons at the phantom of Feixiao.

"In the rage of the moon, you wreaked havoc, causing the deaths of your allies... General Sky Strike, you have betrayed the Alliance's trust!"

"Have they come up with another new trick?"

Without hesitation, Bai Zhi pulled Fei Xiao forward.

After walking up to the phantoms, General Huaiyan's phantom continued to speak, "Your conduct is no different from those monstrous creatures!"

Then, Jing Yuan added, "She is, after all, a monster with blood flowing through her veins... Given time, she will surely become an enemy of the alliance. Cloud Cavalry, form ranks!"

Hu Lei's voice appeared, "You threw yourself into the army of your new master without hesitation. You thought you had gained freedom, respect and recognition, but you were wrong. They know very well that a wolf is always a wolf."

"Now, your greatest fear is about to come true: to become an enemy of the Immortal Ship."

"They fear you, fear the bloodline within you, and fear that you, as a general, will eventually become a great enemy of the Immortal Ship. Therefore, before you go completely mad, they will use high-sounding reasons to suppress you, or even kill you."

"You're nothing more than a tool that can be discarded at will."

"And here..."

After Hu Lei finished speaking, the phantom in front of him changed again, and a group of Bu Li people knelt on the ground, shouting: "Long live the War Chief! Lord Fei Xiao will grant us the future!"

"This is a brand new future, Flying Sky, follow your bloodline, return to the nest."

"No matter how deep your hatred for the Buli people is, and no matter how much hostility there is between you and me, I will show you a path you have never imagined, because you have made the choice."

"You have swallowed the Crimson Moon, you are qualified to become the leader of the Bu Li people!"

"impossible!"

Feixiao decisively refused.

"Heh, those Dulan descendants who came to rescue me were hoping that I could turn the tide of the war, change everything, and allow the Liren race to prosper, but this is nothing but a pipe dream manipulated by those with ulterior motives."

"They would rather place their hopes on a so-called savior than risk everything to fight the enemy. Let such people perish."

"And I, a prisoner imprisoned for 700 years, a war criminal who couldn't even die in honor, would become a puppet to be manipulated if I returned to my people. I will never accept such a fate."

"Feixiao, Baizhi, to the strong, whether they are fox people, Buli people, or Chiming, they are just names. The true strong can decide their own path."

"Therefore, I will forge a completely new path and hand over the power to decide the fate of our people to you—the former slave of Bu Li, the future lord of the fox people."

"As long as you nod, you will immediately wake up from the nightmare brought by the Crimson Moon. Your body will be completely renewed. From now on, madness will no longer plague you, doubt will be nothing more than a speck of dust brushed away from your mind, and fear will vanish completely!"

"Is this the path you've prepared for Sister Feixiao? To become another version of you?"

Bai Zhi shook her head and walked to Hu Lei's phantom. "Why do you think that Bu Liren, the leader of the battle, can be compared with the Seven Heavenly Generals of the Emperor's Bow?"

“She and I are so alike. We are both monsters born to fight and destined to die in battle. Why can’t we be like that?”

Bai Zhi smiled, "Then, Hu Lei, have you ever experienced civilization?"

"civilization?"

Hu Lei laughed, "So-called civilization is nothing but the lies of the weak, a beautiful dream woven to restrict the strong, a shackle that prevents the strong from doing whatever they want."

"You're wrong. Civilization is the ladder of progress, and it also determines the upper limit of the strong. If your Buli human race had not had civilization back then, and only the law of the jungle remained, they probably wouldn't even have been able to communicate with each other, let alone receive blessings and become what they are today."

"Life cannot imagine what it has not seen. Emperor Gongtian becoming the leader of Bu Liren is no different from turning civilized humans into beasts with only instincts."

"While wild beasts may possess powerful claws and teeth, and may even be the kings of a land, to civilized people, all of this is nothing but a trivial and illusory thing."

"Besides the law of the jungle, what else do wild beasts have left? Can they be turned into delicious food, beautiful clothes, or other necessities? Hu Lei, your vision is too narrow. You are thinking about human behavior with the mindset of a wild beast."

Hu Lei remained silent for a while, ignoring Bai Zhi, and instead looked at Fei Xiao, continuing his seductive words:

"Accept all of this, and the Bu Li people will submit to you. Destroy them, leave them without a trace, or educate them to become vassals of the Immortal Ship. It's all up to you."

"And you, because of this identity, will become a true honored guest of the Immortal Ship, rather than a tool that could explode at any moment."

Feixiao took a deep breath. "Hulei, you have no idea what I want."

"Back when I was a slave of war, I shed blood for the first time in order to escape the wolf's whip and shackles."

"During our constant escape, my family and I saw a shooting star in the sky. I made a wish upon the shooting star, hoping to gain freedom so that we could all escape and share that freedom with more brothers and sisters."

"We ran and ran, and finally escaped the wolf pack's pursuit. We encountered a woman who could fly, a... Cloud Cavalry."

“I guess you brought the Cloud Riders back to the old place.”

Hu Lei said calmly.

"Yes, but unfortunately, when I and that Cloud Rider got there, all we saw was a bottomless ravine left in the earth."

"The light of the demonic bow... a calamity falls to earth, and all things perish."

Hu Lei chuckled.

Feixiao ignored Hulei and continued, "In the years that followed, my fellow Cloud Riders and I chased the trajectory of that light countless times, and watched it fall countless times."

"Gradually I came to understand that it was not a shooting star carrying wishes. The appearance of each arrow of light meant an irredeemable world and the annihilation of countless lives."

"I prayed to the body of the bow, asking Him not to let me witness a meteor fall again."

"But... God has never responded to me."

Hu Lei laughed, his voice seductive, "Yes, they never respond, letting us kill each other in the world. That's why we've been fighting to this day."

"If the gods, high above us, are unwilling to listen to the prayers of mortals, then we must fight for our desires."

"Do you understand now, Saran...? The similarities between you and me are far greater than you think."

Bai Zhi stroked her chin. "I think the gods might respond to mortals' prayers. Believe it or not, if I call out, several star gods will immediately respond."

"Little girl, why have you lost your mind at this point?"

Hu Lei's words carried a hint of sarcasm.

If gods could easily respond to the calls of mortals, why would all living beings struggle so much?