. In the confrontation with his disciples, Li Yao has always behaved with ease.

It wasn't until Jin Xinyue threw out this question that the smile on his face stiffened slightly.

Li Yao took a deep breath and said, "My spiritual root was inspired by seven cultivators who stood up and desperately protected ordinary people on the crystal rail train in the Great Wilderness to the north, and it will awaken!" ”

"So, I will always be on the side of ordinary people."

"I will do what is best for ordinary people, and if I feel that some decisions of the federal government will harm the interests of ordinary people, of course I will do my best to change and prevent it."

Jin Xinyue's gaze became clearer and clearer, and her tone became more and more firm: "Shizun still hasn't answered the disciple's question head-on. ”

"On the side of ordinary people? So, who is an ordinary person? Even, who is considered a 'human'? ”

"Yes, the citizens of the Star Federation, of course, are ordinary people that Master wants to protect."

"The disciple also believes that his current appearance, in the eyes of the master, may be regarded as a human being."

"Even those chaotic blood demon clans whose characteristics of the demon clan are not too obvious, maybe the master can treat them as 'ordinary people' and protect them sincerely."

"But what about those bronze-blooded and black-blooded demon clans that are ugly in appearance, even strange-looking?"

"In the eyes of the master, are they really 'people'? In the most extreme case, is Shizun really willing to break with the Star Federation for such a 'person'? ”

Li Yao was stunned, really stunned.

The third disciple he accepted was so different from the first two disciples.

Her performance far exceeded her expectations!

Looking at Jin Xinyue's eyes shining like crystal marrow, looking at this Holy Maiden of the Ten Thousand Demon Palace, the daughter of Jin Tuyi, the commander of the Ten Thousand Demon Alliance, blooming with all her light and radiance, Li Yao could no longer regard this conversation as a simple master guiding disciples.

Rather, between two cultivators. Equal communication!

"You asked the key, since I discovered the truth of 'shemale homology', I've been thinking about who is the 'ordinary person'. What exactly is a 'human', how should humans and demons be separated, and what am I fighting for? ”

Li Yao gestured and asked Jin Xinyue to sit cross-legged like him.

Sit on your knees. It is the way in which the disciples listen to the Master's teachings, and both sides sit cross-legged, which is "sitting and talking about the Tao".

Jin Xinyue gave a deep bow and sat down cross-legged unceremoniously.

She knew that the next conversation belonged to the exploration of the "Great Dao", and under the Great Dao, all cultivators were equal, even if they were masters and apprentices.

Li Yao said: "This question is too complicated. In order to understand the knots at the bottom of my heart, I almost thought of going crazy, arguing fiercely with my other self in my head, and colliding with a lot of absurd ideas. ”

Of course, Jin Xinyue didn't know that Li Yao's so-called "another self in his head" was not a rhetorical device, but really existed as "another Li Yao".

She listened with bated breath to Master's understanding of the Great Dao.

Li Yao said: "Make a mind game, let's say, you are a true cultivator who abides by the Basic Law of the Federation very much, and you see a beautiful person. When a frail young girl is in danger, of course she must step forward and protect her, right? ”

Jin Xinyue nodded: "Yes." ”

Li Yao said: "But." If it's not a girl, but a strong man with a fierce face, five big and three rough, and vulgar, who is in danger? Want to protect? ”

Jin Xinyue hesitated: "You still have to protect it, you look vicious and innocent, it seems to be five big and three coarse." A vulgar and unbearable strong man may also be a husband, father and son, he is also an ordinary person, if he encounters a danger that cannot be resolved, he will be seen by a real cultivator, of course, he will take action to protect it. ”

Li Yao said: "If this strong man has suffered from a serious illness, 99% of the organs in his body have failed, and he has to replace it with a 'spiritual prosthetic body' composed of metal, gears and magic weapons, only the brain or the original brain?" ”

Jin Xinyue pondered for a moment: "An ordinary person who changes into a spiritual prosthetic body is still an ordinary person." ”

Li Yao's eyes were blazing: "What if you don't even have a brain?" He is already dead, leaving only a remnant soul and has become a ghost cultivator. ”

Jin Xinyue frowned and said: "The law of the Star Federation recognizes the human rights of ghost cultivators, that is, ghosts are treated as ordinary people, and theoretically speaking, they should still be protected." ”

Li Yao said: "Okay, what if the strong man is tortured by a serious illness and is about to die, the only thing that can save him is not a 'spirit weapon prosthetic body', but a bottle of 'Kunlun Divine Water'?" ”

"He took the 'Kunlun Divine Water', his cells mutated, and he became a demon clan with a hideous face and sharp fangs, is he still an ordinary person? Is it still under the protection of cultivators? ”

Jin Xinyue spoke.

This question is too complicated, she really doesn't know the answer, so she can only think deeply and shake her head, not in denial, but in the sense that she doesn't know.

Li Yao said: "Okay, let's change the question, let's say that this bottle of 'Kunlun Divine Water' has been specially concocted, and the side effects are very small, after taking it, it only causes deep mutations in the cells, but the appearance is not much different from that of normal people, only the canine teeth are slightly longer than ordinary people by one millimeter." ”

"So, this strong man who came back to life is a human or a demon?"

"A millimeter?"

Jin Xinyue made a gesture, the canine teeth are one millimeter longer than ordinary people, and they can't be seen at all, of course they are ordinary people!

She nodded without hesitation.

Li Yao: "What about two millimeters? ”

Jin Xinyue nodded.

"What about three millimeters?"

Nod.

"What about four millimeters? What about five millimeters? ”

Nod, nod.

"Ten millimeters, that's one centimeter?"

A centimeter longer than normal? Something obvious, right? Jin Xinyue hesitated a little and nodded reluctantly.

Li Yao crossed his fingers and rested them on his chin: "What if it's thirty centimeters?" Like a saber-toothed tiger, with long and sharp fangs, is that a 'human' or a 'demon'? ”

Jin Xinyue thought for a while, and wondered: "The only demon clan characteristic on many chaotic blood demon clans is fangs, if it is a fangs like a saber-toothed tiger, it seems that it is difficult to be regarded as a 'human' in the general sense, right?" ”

Li Yao said: "Therefore, between the length of the canine teeth of one centimeter and thirty centimeters, there must be a critical point to judge whether this strong man is a human or a demon. Right? ”

"Let's say, that critical point is fifteen centimeters."

"If this strong man's luck is good enough, after taking the 'Kunlun Divine Water', the canine teeth have grown to exactly 14.99 centimeters. Then he is a human being, and theoretically speaking, the cultivator should protect him. ”

"However, if he drank an extra sip of 'Kunlun Divine Water', the canine teeth grew to 15.01 centimeters. Then he can be regarded as a demon, theoretically speaking, the cultivator should 'slay the demon and eliminate the demon' and kill him. ”

"If he is ruthless, find a dentist, and pull out the fangs, then he will change from a demon to a human again, and the cultivator should protect him again, right?"

Jin Xinyue felt that her canine teeth were a little sore.

According to the theory just now, it seems that this should be the case.

But once spread out, let's talk about it. I always feel that something is wrong!

How exactly do you define the concept of "human"?

Jin Xinyue was completely confused.

Li Yao sighed and said, "It's a bit ridiculous, isn't it?" But that's how a lot of people see things, myself included. ”

"You're right, although I've always told myself in my heart that the demon race comes from the human race, and all the demon race is another form of the human race."

"However, if it is like some of the Chaotic Blood Demon Clan and the Silver Blood Demon Clan, it is just a tail and a pair of cat ears added to the human form. Or a pair of wings - if I want to accept that such a demon is the same kind, it doesn't seem like a big problem. ”

"But those hideous faces have completely lost their human form. It's like a bug that's magnified tens of thousands of times, and I do...... It's hard to accept them! ”

"I know that this concept of 'judging people by their appearance' is wrong, but no matter how you overcome it, you can't reverse it in a short instant."

"So, you have to ask me what exactly is a 'human'. I'm really not qualified to define. ”

"I just want to tell you a story, a story more than a hundred years ago, in the Star Federation, the ghost cultivators fought for human rights."

Jin Xinyue listened very carefully, and couldn't help but not interject.

Li Yao said: "More than a hundred years ago, with the development of technologies such as 'Divine Soul Locking' and 'Spirit Weapon Prosthetics', there were more and more ghost cultivators in the Star Federation. ”

"Some people support the human rights of ghost cultivators, after all, they retain the memories and will of their lives, except that they have no substance, they are no different from those before they were alive."

But some people think that ghosts are ghosts, people and ghosts have different paths, and it would be good to allow them to operate in broad daylight, and what kind of human rights are they talking about? Treating ghosts as human beings will only lead to the collapse of traditional ethical concepts and social order, and it will never work. ”

"Under the instigation of the latter trend of thought, various 'living supremacy' organizations have emerged, and the discrimination against ghost cultivators is very serious, and there has even been persecution of ghost cultivators."

"In some places, there are people with unscrupulous intentions, who control ghost cultivation and manipulate them to break the law and commit crimes, after all, ghost cultivation has no entity, and many unsightly deeds are done by ghost cultivation, which will be more convenient than living people, this kind of 'ghost harming people' thing has been done since ancient times, it is not surprising."

"In this case, there is a typical case, a twelve-year-old girl, after her death, retained a wisp of remnant soul, but was obtained by a criminal group, and the evil cultivator of the criminal group refined her into a ghost cultivator, asking her to use the ghost's ability to commit crimes."

"The little girl was desperate to obey, and she wanted to escape several times, but she angered these evil cultivators and was beaten to pieces."

"After this incident was exposed, of course those evil cultivators were arrested."

"However, in the courtroom, their defense lawyer was eloquent in front of irrefutable evidence - yes, his client admitted to beating the little girl to pieces, but it is impossible for a person to die twice, this little girl died a long time ago, and it was a normal death, not killed by his client, so technically speaking, his client did not 'kill' the little girl, and there is no murder!"

"Murder, of course, is a crime, but what about killing ghosts? The Star Federation is the first law, is it illegal to kill ghosts? ”

"Originally, it was just a simple criminal case, but it happened to be in the fierce collision of two currents of thought, and finally it went to the Federal Supreme Court, and it became a big debate defining 'ghosts' and 'people'!"

"In the end, a wisp of divine soul hidden in the prosthetic body of the spirit weapon is not considered a human being? Is killing a ghost with an independent will and free mind guilty of 'murder'? ”.

(To be continued.) )