Free Web NovelChapter 632: Chapter 311: Farewell, Close Friends
This is an unprecedented great escape!
The Spirit Realm is boundless. How many living beings exist under the heavens? Countless billions, and now, they are all surging towards Daozhou to evade the invasion of the anomalous substance.
In reality, even though an endless stream of strange gases is invading through the breach in the world’s great net, it is impossible for it to cause the entire Spirit Realm to perish in an instant. After all, the Spirit Realm is vast. The New Continent and areas where Immortals have established Immortal Cities are the heavily affected zones, while other regions fare somewhat better.
Some remote areas have yet to see the slightest trace of the strange gases.
Yet everyone knows, it’s only a matter of time.
Moreover, the Daoist Sect Order has announced plans to select some living beings to send away, allowing them to leave the Spirit Realm.
No matter the faction, cultivation, or race!
This immediately became the hope of the entire Spirit Realm!
...
"There are too many people!"
Li An, being the Supreme, was directly responsible for one area, stationed in "Dao Yin City," a major city in the northwest of Daozhou, a city whose population was already over a billion, now increased more than tenfold by the influx of people from all directions.
"The great array is operating at full force. Any who attempt to create chaos shall be killed!"
A large amount of Spirit Stones and other resources were filled into the array. The grand array suppressed all directions, and everyone who arrived behaved obediently. Many who couldn’t enter the city waited outside.
Li Qingran, under Li An’s leadership, led twenty teams responsible for selection.
The process for selection by the Dao Sect mainly involves two rounds:
The first round is a random selection, with the Great Dao’s dice rolling. Those chosen, whether they are elderly, children, experts, or beasts and Spiritual Birds fleeing here, all obtain initial qualifications.
The second round requires verification. If those selected have ever practiced Demon Skills or consumed Immortal Dao Material from the Exotic Realm, or cultivated Exotic Immortal Scriptures, they will be eliminated.
Li An was once puzzled by this. Even though the Dao Sect’s method excluded some people, those chosen had no consistent standards. They were neither exceptionally gifted geniuses nor inherently good-hearted individuals...
They might include the completely valueless old and weak, or even once-cruel executioners... Given this, what was the significance of the selection?
But Withered Fate and others’ response left Li An silent:
"Heaven and earth are not benevolent, treating all things as mere straw dogs. The Dao Sect acts only as an agent of the Heavenly Dao!"
——The purpose of the Dao Sect is to preserve seeds of civilization belonging to the Spirit Realm as much as possible, not to create a pure land for talented Cultivators or an ideal world exclusive to good people.
To heaven and earth, all things are like straw dogs. This is not to say the Heavenly Dao is cruel and heartless; rather, before the Heavenly Dao, all beings are equal. So, when calamity strikes, whether one is a genius or a kindhearted soul, all are equal and not inherently more noble or more deserving of salvation than others.
"Supreme, these are all those who passed the first selection."
Li Qingran brought in a group, and Li An glanced at them. There were a total of twenty people in this group, yet eleven of them were ordinary people with no cultivation, along with three Spirit Beasts. Only six were Cultivators, and they were all mid to low-tier, with only one Nascent Soul!
After cultivating for many years, it was only at this moment that he realized that there weren’t that many high-end Great Cultivators in the world; Nascent Souls were already few in number.
The higher one ascended in cultivation, the more it seemed like Divinity Transformation were everywhere, and Refining Void were as common as dogs... That was merely because one was in a higher level of society.
Everyone surrounds themselves with people of similar standing, but that does not mean one’s circle is the whole world!
"Let them depart—"
Li An waved his hand, and this group became delighted beyond measure.
"Elder, I, I have a request!"
At this moment, a woman suddenly raised her hand and said anxiously, "I have a relative. I want to take him with me. You must grant my request, otherwise, I will not leave—"
She had a resolute look on her face, as if being chosen had bestowed upon her some privilege, and that it was the Dao Sect that was pleading with her instead.
Li An was both amused and angered at this, waving her off, "Let her leave—replace her!"
The woman collapsed on the spot, shouting, "Why? This spot is mine. How can you take it away? No... no, I’ll go by myself, I won’t bring anyone..."
After the personnel change, Li Qingran arranged for the Dao Sect ship to prepare for departure.
"Why, why were these ants selected? We have higher cultivation, why not us? We do not accept this!"
But as the ship took off, several Great Cultivators in the city suddenly rose into the air, blocking the path of the great ship.
They were Cultivators around Refining Void and Harmonization Dao stages. As first batch candidates, the Dao Sect’s Great Dao dice did not choose them, meaning they lost their qualifications later, fueling their anger.
"If you’re saving some, save us all; you can’t save just a portion!"
"We are all human; why are we not being saved? Put us on the ship!"
"If we don’t all get saved, then we shall die together!" freēwēbnovel.com
"You choose whoever you want? Isn’t this corruption! The Spirit Realm is ruined because of you, what right do you have to select people? We will not rest without a justification!"
Immediately, the city was surging with people. Those not chosen in the first batch were now furious, surging forward desperately.
In the face of life and death, the ugliness of human nature emerged.
Why save him, not me?!
Why don’t I get to live?
Li An understood this well; in some respects, everyone’s anger was just.
Facing this righteous fury, he remained calm, waving his large hand:
