Primordial Era: When a Good Guy Awakens a Morally Unethical System

Chapter 42, Forcing the Sheep to Eat the Rabbit

Zhen Yuanzi had noticed Hongyun's attempt to leave Wuzhuang Temple, but at that time he was at a critical juncture in his breakthrough, and once he was certain that Hongyun could not leave Wuzhuang Temple, he focused on his breakthrough.

I knew he was boring, but I never imagined he could be this bored. It's one thing to bully Qingfeng and Mingyue, but now he's even starting to harm animals that haven't yet developed intelligence.

Before, they would go out and harm the animals in the mountains at the drop of a hat. Now, they've brought them out and are even killing animals inside the temple, making a complete mess of the place.

Zhen Yuanzi walked out with a frown, waved his sleeve, and made the bloodstains on the ground disappear.

He looked helplessly at Hongyun: "Wasting time to commit murder will not benefit your cultivation."

Hongyun chuckled: "They have no intelligence; they're just animals, not living beings."

"All things possess a spirit; each is born a life, and even those without intelligence are still primordial beings." Zhen Yuanzi disagreed.

"Well, they've already been killed, so what can we do about it?" Hongyun shrugged.

Zhen Yuanzi glared at Hongyun, then used his magic to heal the wounds on the deer and sheep, as a way of making amends to Hongyun.

"I want to eat one later!" Hongyun looked at Zhen Yuanzi with a pitiful expression.

Judging from Zhen Yuanzi's expression, he won't let you eat it.

Zhen Yuanzi took a deep breath to control his anger: "You are already a Great Luo Immortal, why do you need to eat miscellaneous things?"

Hongyun chuckled: "Not needing and not wanting are two different things."

"You are a naturally born being with extraordinary talent. If such filth enters your body, it will definitely affect your cultivation," Zhen Yuanzi said solemnly.

Hongyun was in a bad mood, not knowing how to explain the Great Dao of Food to Zhen Yuanzi. Zhen Yuanzi was a human form of the Ginseng Fruit Tree, and he only needed to absorb spiritual energy; he didn't need to eat anything at all.

All I could offer were a few largely useless rebuttals: "These are not filthy things; they are living beings too."

Zhen Yuanzi didn't discriminate between people, nor did he consider animals to be inferior to innate beings like him and Hongyun. He simply believed that cultivators possessed the purest and most concentrated spiritual energy, and consuming substances lacking spiritual energy might be detrimental to their cultivation.

"But we cultivators don't eat this stuff!" Zhen Yuanzi now sees Hongyun as a helpless little fool who often does unreliable things and needs his care and attention.

Hongyun sighed, finally understanding how those young people in later generations felt when they complained online about being too strict and lenient with their families using the older generation's ideas.

But he still argued his case, after all, Zhen Yuanzi was not an unreasonable elder. He just had not lived in the future and did not know human habits or the deliciousness of food.

"It's not good, but it's not bad either, so let's give it a try!"

"Besides, we've already reached the Great Luo realm; surely we can expel this little bit of filth from our bodies?"

"Just let me try. If it really does harm my health and cultivation, then there won't be a next time." Hongyun said everything she was thinking, almost throwing a tantrum on the ground.

Zhen Yuanzi was indeed somewhat swayed by Hongyun's persistence. It wasn't that he agreed with Hongyun's point of view, but seeing that Hongyun was relentless and genuinely wanted to eat, he couldn't bear to object any longer.

Hongyun, who had been observing Zhen Yuanzi's expression, seized the opportunity to extort, saying, "Those animals were fine after eating it, so naturally I, a Great Luo Golden Immortal, will be fine too!"

"Qingfeng caught the rabbit because he wanted to eat it. Now the sheep has eaten the rabbit, so the sheep has to compensate. How about we let Qingfeng eat the sheep first?" Let's test the poison first?

(End of this chapter)