The impact of Wang Wei’s Ninth Trial lasted for more than a month. Throughout the Dao Opening Sect, many disciples kept discussing the mighty prowess of their Young Sect Master and they all had a happy smile on their face, as they looked forward to a better future.
They all hoped that their sect could have a new Great Emperor.
Meanwhile, in the Wang Family Mountain, Wang Wei has been pondering what he learned throughout all the Nine Trials.
After passing each trial, he became a better person, a more qualified cultivator. The trial that affected him the most has to be the Fifth Trial.
In that Trial, Wang Wei almost lost himself. In order to acquire power, he was willing to do absolutely anything: he had no bottom-line whatsoever. He was even willing to kill his own mother...
Although he woke up at the last minute, he still had a lingering fear when he thought about how close he came to losing himself to power and becoming its slave.
During this trial, Wang Wei’s greatest fear since coming to this world manifested. He truly feared that during his journey to the Throne of Emperor, the cultivating world would slowly change him and turn him into a greedy and heartless monster that lust for power.
After all, despite all the changes that has happened to Wang Wei the past ten years, his essence is still a modern man who lived in a society of law and order.
He has not truly blended into this world yet. In fact, today, he is going to take another step to modify his way of thinking, and also to prepare for his future.
After his self meditation, he proceeds to call his head maid Wang Ju--who is in fact from one of the Wang family branch lines. After a rigid and rigorous training process with more than a 1000 candidates, she was chosen to serve Wang Wei.
Wang Ju walks into the room, bows and salutes: "Young Master."
"Did you get what I asked for?" answers Wang Wei directly.
"Yes, just like you ask for. Ten heinous criminals from the mortal world are locked in the basement. Each of them have committed horrendous crimes like rape, murder of children, and even cannibalisms."
After hearing Wang Ju’s words, Wang Wei nods in satisfaction and orders: "You can leave now."
Wang Ju slightly bows to him and proceeds to leave without asking any question. One of her training as a Head Maid and Information Agent is to never ask the Superior any question.
Things that she should know will be told to her. Things that she should not know, she does not dare to ask. That’s the motto of every properly trained maid. If one day she ever crosses any of these two rules, she knows what awaits her is only death.
After seeing his head maid leave, Wang Wei was even more satisfied with her. The Wang family trained her properly, and Wang Ju is actually quite capable.
After taking a few breaths to calm down, Wang Wei journeys toward the basement. Today, he is going to do something to prepare for his future; he is going to take another major step toward his future.
Today, he is going to personally see blood: he is going to kill.
Although Wang Wei has committed many acts of mass genocide during the Pagoda Trial, however, things are actually different in real life. In the trials, he could internalize his actions by telling himself that this world is in fact just a mere dream, a very realistic illusion.
That his actions had no real consequences, that the people in the illusion were nothing but npcs in a game. As such, he did not really feel anything when he killed someone.
However, reality is different from the illusion world of the Pagoda. This time, he is going to take an actual life.
As a person born in modern society with normal ethical views, how could he easily kill someone and shrunk it like it was nothing.
Wang Wei remembers reading about the protagonists from the novels in his past life. Every time they first kill someone, they act as if it was nothing. It was as if what they had just done is comparable to daily drinking of water.
These protagonists usually defend themselves by saying that the world is the law of the jungle, big fish preys on little fish.
Although they are indeed right, the world of cultivation is indeed brutal, however, these protagonists just got into the world and they could immediately change their mindset like that.
To Wang Wei, most of these protagonists were actually already mentally unstable. The world did not change them, not it just reveals their already insane or problematic mentality. The law and order of modern society are just shackles to these protagonists.
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