Chapter 684: Chapter 388 Invitation to Tingchao Cliff_3

Chen Mu remained silent.

He did not pity the Spirit People Race. On one hand, they were a different race, with inherently dissimilar intentions; on the other hand, the survival of the fittest is the way of the world.

If it were the Da Xuan Dynasty that was part of that Cave Heaven, and instead it was the Spirit People Race’s Xunmu Cave Heaven that was hundreds of times more vast than Da Xuan, then Da Xuan would have been the one to suffer from the Spirit People Race’s invasion, facing slaughter and looting.

Even among one’s own kind, there are endless scheming and conflicts preventing coexistence, let alone with a foreign race.

Seeing Chen Mu’s silence, Yan Hong paused briefly and then said softly, “Just like our Da Xuan Dynasty and the foreign races beyond our borders, the blood feud spanning generations cannot be resolved, and we are not saints or buddhas who can look after everything; all we can tend to is ourselves.”

Chen Mu shook his head and said, “I am not so pedantic, ‘the innocent must bear the blame for possessing a jade.’ If the Spirit People Race occupies the Xunmu Spirit Liquid, a Heaven and Earth Spiritual Item, yet they are not powerful enough to protect it, attracting envy is only natural. I was just suddenly thinking, if our existence in this world is also just a slightly larger ‘Cave Heaven,’ what will we do if one day foreign races from a vaster universe invade these lands?”

Upon hearing Chen Mu’s words, Yan Hong was momentarily startled.

She had never considered this perspective, nor had she ever thought about it. After her brief astonishment, she showed a hint of surprise, for who in the world of Da Xuan did not believe that their realm was the center of the Azure Sky Universe?

It seemed that worlds such as the Xunmu Cave Heaven were merely dependent on Da Xuan for existence, but Chen Mu’s thoughts, considering Da Xuan to possibly be just another Cave Heaven, were beyond her expectations.

Instinctively, she wanted to object.

Yet as a Grandmaster, she was privy to some secrets, although she’d never thought like Chen Mu before. Now that he brought it up, she suddenly found it difficult to object, because she couldn’t prove such a possibility didn’t exist.

But after all, as a Grandmaster with a firm Martial Arts will, she said after a brief silence, “We practice Martial Arts to protect our land and to maintain what we wish to safeguard. If such a situation arises, then just like the Spirit People Race, we should do what we can, sacrificing our flesh and blood for the world, and not have lived our lives of Martial Arts cultivation in vain.”

These words made Chen Mu give her another look.

People practice Martial Arts for various reasons: some for supremacy in Sword Dao, others for dominance in the world, for freedom and transcendence; and yet, there are those who do it to protect a haven of peace in their hearts.

His will was for everything in the world to follow his heart’s desire, a result of his own experiences. If he had not come from a different land and had been born in this world instead, perhaps his will and philosophy would be to protect a sanctuary close to him.

This kind of will itself is not unusual.

However, from his brief interaction and observation of Yan Hong, Chen Mu judged that she was likely not only from the Central Prefecture but also from a noble family, even possibly a member of the Da Xuan Royal Family. The subtle quality of her demeanor was not something ordinary people could discern, but he, who controlled Qiankun, was most sensitive to it.

A member of the Royal Family with such a Martial Arts will was somewhat unusual; he wondered how it had developed.

Chen Mu did not delve deeper but simply nodded slightly toward Yan Hong and said, “Your words are very true, Miss Yan. If such an event were to occur, fighting is the only option for these mountains, rivers, and seas.”

At this point, Chen Mu changed the subject and said, “I am likely to accept the invitation from the Dragonwood Island Master, but before that, I have a few trivial matters to deal with, also nearby the Dragon Wood Sea Region. It would be convenient to travel together with Miss Yan for a while.”

“Good.”

Yan Hong suppressed the ripples in her mind, nodded to Chen Mu, but when looking at him, she couldn’t help but reveal a curious and astonished look. After all, among all the people she’d met, regardless of their status or the strength of their Martial Arts, all believed their world to be the center of the Azure Sky Universe. Only Chen Mu’s thoughts were so astonishing and unorthodox; she wondered how such a perspective had come into being.

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