Heaven Refining physique-Chapter 135: Lesser Evil

The monk became stunned. He looked at Jiang Hao for some time but didn’t say anything.

"What happened? Can’t accept it? Weren’t you going to kill me to protect these sects? Weren’t you justifying that a lesser evil is much better and acceptable if it is done for the greater good? So how come you are hesitating?

Isn’t it equal to going back on your own beliefs? That’s not good. Your whole existence is based on your beliefs. How would you live if you go back on them? So you shouldn’t go back on them and prove that you follow your beliefs no matter what.

So here’s a simple offer for you. If you kill yourself, then I will spare at least two cultivators, one from Ethereal Cloud Sanctuary and one from Azure Sky Sect. See, I have improved the situation even more favourably for you. Instead of only one cultivator, I am sparing two. I will even take a heavenly oath this time. So go on, kill yourself for the greater good.

Also, I won’t kill you nor harm you, but if you don’t kill yourself, then remember, you broke your own belief. So any word from you monks would just be lies to manipulate people, nothing else."

The monk just gritted his teeth inwardly and cursed Jiang Hao, and also himself, for opening his mouth earlier. He was sure that they would be able to kill Jiang Hao inside the array, but he was thoroughly mistaken. This monster was unkillable.

What kind of idiots were these two sects to make an enemy out of this monster, destroy their foundations? What utter nonsense. This guy can totally annihilate them if he grows up.

And it looks like their own monastery wouldn’t survive after joining with them. They had dug their own grave.

Now he couldn’t even go back on his words easily. There were many people who were watching this. If he goes back, then it will not only damage his reputation but also his monastery’s reputation.

He would never be able to go back to his monastery again. Killing himself was also impossible—how could he even accept it?

He could only try to find some way to fool the narrative of other people.

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"Shut up. A simple answer: yes or no. If yes, then kill yourself, and if you don’t want to, then say no. Don’t try to reason with me, or I will kill you right now."

The disciple’s words got stuck in his mouth. If he said no, then it would be directly accepting that he was wrong and had gone back on his words.

"I don’t have much time, so do it in 3 breaths."

This made matters worse for the monk. But in the end, he couldn’t kill himself, and since Jiang Hao had said he wouldn’t kill him or even harm him, then it was guaranteed that he wouldn’t go back on his word, as he was sure that Jiang Hao wanted to humiliate him.

Finally, he couldn’t take it anymore and answered.

"No."

"There you go, it wasn’t hard, was it?"

Jiang Hao took his storage bag. The monk didn’t resist.

Jiang Hao left him alone. Since he said that he wouldn’t kill or harm him, he would do so. Forcing him to go back on his word might hurt him more.

He picked up the storage bags of those disciples whom he had killed by sword, as their storage bags were intact. In total, he got twenty-one bags. He didn’t wait to take out beast cores from grade three beasts, as it would waste too much time.

Jing Tian and Yu Yan came close to him while he was collecting the storage bags.

"Let’s go."

"Ahh... senior, you don’t want the beast cores?"

Jing Tian was really surprised. Today, he had been totally stunned many times. Jiang Hao was capable beyond his imagination.

Jiang Hao looked towards him calmly. He understood that not everyone had the same view towards grade three beast cores. For him, they were of very minuscule use, but for others, they were valuable.

He had no doubt that once he left, there would be intense fighting to claim those beast cores. They were valuable to even geniuses like Jing Tian, much less to ordinary cultivators.

"If you want, you can stay here and extract them."

Jing Tian became speechless. Inwardly, he really wanted them, but seeing that Jiang Hao would definitely leave, he removed his greed and said,

"There’s no need, senior. How can mere grade three beast cores entice me? Let’s go, right?"

Yu Yan looked at Jing Tian like she was looking at a total stranger. How could a top genius of the Starlight Zenith Order act like this? But she also understood that Jiang Hao was a total anomaly.

There was no need to prove anything now. After all that happened, it was just a given fact that Jiang Hao was one of the traitors these two sects were hunting.

She had seen his information, as Mountain Sword sect weren’t hiding it and released everything when pressure was put on them. Jiang Hao was only eighteen years old and had joined the Mountain Sword Sect when he was fifteen years old.

An eighteen-year-old cultivator who was at the peak of Core Formation Realm, along with peak stage of grade 3 , was an unimaginable concept, not to mention his strength, which was totally unconventional.

It was a given fact that he had some special physique like his senior brother, but if she had to compare the value of their physiques, then it was definitely worlds apart.

Now she understood why Jiang Hao and Ming Yue were forced to run away from these sects and why these sects were so hell-bent on killing them.

Once this news gets out, everyone would definitely come to the same conclusion as her. So in the end, the perpetrators were these two sects from the very start. But since they weren’t successful in their nefarious plans, they had made enemies out of someone who could basically become their end. It was a given that they would take this step to kill Jiang Hao and Ming Yue while they were still weak.

One more thing she had understood, the reason why the Heavenly Sisters left the Azure Sky Sect with Ming Yue. There was news that Ming Yue had killed her sect mates, but the information wasn’t very clear as they had suppressed it. Even Sky Pavilion seemed to have not known at that time.

But now it was clear that Ming Yue too had a special physique, and its value was definitely higher as well. Maybe that’s the reason why these two sects had joined hands. They may have wanted at least one of the two special physique holders, but it seems they failed.

This is definitely going to create a stir amongst the top powers of the world. Everyone might have to choose one side—either to kill these two to protect those sects which act as deterrents against spirit beasts, or to take the risk of joining with Jiang Hao and Ming Yue to eradicate those sects.

Both decisions aren’t easy to make, because if they make the wrong judgement, then they will be the ones who are destroyed later on.

She sighed. It was not for her to think of these things. Her father was logical and intelligent. Their elders would definitely make the right move. Neutrality is the best option, but whether it is an available option or not, she didn’t know.

She could only do one thing, and that was to properly describe how dangerous Jiang Hao is. One thing was certain, no one, literally no one in the same realm, could even think of touching the hem of his clothes, much less killing him.

In fact, the way Baofeng was afraid, it was a given fact that even higher realms wouldn’t have any advantage against him.

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Jing Tian took out a minor teleportation talisman. He was feeling a little pinch now. Jiang Hao could definitely teleport, not to mention he had just gotten so many teleportation talismans from the storage bags of those disciples, so it was only logical to use them. But it seemed he had no intentions to.

He could only complain inwardly. In the end, he was the one who wanted to tag along. Jiang Hao definitely wouldn’t mind going alone.

He used the talisman, and they disappeared from the field of carnage.

The onlookers were stunned. They were far enough to not be able to listen to what Jiang Hao and Jing Tian were talking about, as they were talking very softly.

But it was clear now that Jiang Hao wasn’t taking any of the beast cores. Some people looked at each other but didn’t move. What if that devil did this so that they would come out of the safe path?

Although they didn’t have any enmity with Jiang Hao, but did Jiang Hao need any reason to kill them? That guy didn’t even blink while killing so many cultivators, so it was hard to believe he didn’t like killing.

They waited for some time, and when Jiang Hao really didn’t come back, they became agitated. One of the cultivators wasn’t able to hold back and moved immediately. Seeing that, others moved too.

How could they let others have the advantage? In seconds, every one of them moved toward the area where the spirit beasts were. Similarly, conflicts began occurring here and there, and immediately everyone began fighting.

This location, which already had so many dead cultivators, would have even more dead bodies.

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Jiang Hao and the others arrived at their desired city, unaware of what was happening at the location they had just left.