Chapter 17: Disciple of Jiechan
"uninvited guest?"

Zhao Si frowned. Could it be that Di Jun sent someone?
"That's not right. The current time point has obviously exceeded the time when the Heavenly Court issued the massacre decree during the last simulation, but Emperor Jun has not made any move so far. This is different from the last time. It means that Emperor Jun has not yet had the intention to kill the human race because of my butterfly effect."

"If you don't come first, it's already this late. You can't suddenly lose your mind and start killing people, right? It doesn't make sense logically."

"Who will come then?"

With doubts, Zhao Si continued to look down. His intuition told him that the cause of the butterfly effect in this world might be found in these unidentified uninvited guests:
[You are not unfamiliar with these unexpected visitors, because in your previous life, when you were reincarnated as a human, you could see them almost every day...]

[“Daoist friend, may I have a word with you?” A Taoist who calls himself Guangchengzi walks out of the crowd and sends you a signal of friendly communication with a smile.]

[Faced with the unknown intentions of the Jiechan Sect members, you feel alert. What is your choice: (?)]

[A: Disdainful. You, a bunch of little bastards from an illegal society that doesn't even have a place in the Heavenly Court, are you qualified to talk to the noble chieftain personally ordered by the Heavenly Emperor? B: Sliding down to his knees, Xiaolong is so lucky to be able to call a saint's disciple a fellow Taoist. At the same time, he readily agreed to all the other party's conditions.]

It’s back, it’s all back, the familiar extreme options are back!

It has been a whole month since I last saw this game go crazy. Zhao Si even missed the feeling of committing suicide.

How to choose? Choose one by one!
"A first!"

[You chose option A, disdainful. How dare you, a bunch of scoundrels from an illegal society that doesn't even have a place in the Heavenly Court, talk to the noble chieftain personally ordered by the Heavenly Emperor? ]

[Your outrageous remarks shocked the Jiechan Sect, including Guangchengzi. Several hot-tempered Jiejiao Golden Immortals were furious and angrily scolded you, a yellow loach, for being shameless. Brothers, fight together! ]

[The Chan and Jie sects are of the same blood. Even the rational Guang Chengzi could not stop the angry brothers. Under the combined efforts of dozens of Taiyi Golden Immortals and hundreds of Golden Immortals and Xuan Immortals, you evaporated on the spot and your soul was shattered.]

[After beheading you, a little Xuanxian lunatic, the disciples of the two sects were still furious. They simply ignored any gentle negotiations and started fighting directly. Not long after, more than a thousand of your brothers and sisters were all imprisoned, and the millions of people who had originally developed a mature civilization were also turned into a primitive society.]

[The disciples of the Second Sect ordered the human race not to cultivate immortality, and to learn language and writing again under their guidance, to use ordinary fire, and to build houses... All your efforts have been thrown away and started over again. In the future, the human race will no longer remember your deeds, but will only remember that it was the disciples of the saints who saved them from the barbaric era...]

[You died. The wrong choice led to the wrong ending. Your wanton making of enemies not only brought about your own death, but also lifelong imprisonment for your clan members. It also caused the innocent human race to develop civilization again from scratch, and once again headed towards the predetermined fate of fighting the demon race in reincarnation, suffering the pain of the times...]

what? !

Zhao Si opened his mouth wide, but he was not shocked by the protagonist's death. After all, this crappy option would definitely lead to a dead end.

What really surprised him was the follow-up actions of the Second Sect disciples:

"Killing me is normal, but what does this have to do with the human race? They also forced the human race back to primitive society and led them to develop again..."

Zhao Si's first reaction was that the disciples of the Second Sect had gone crazy, but then he quickly realized what this operation was for:
Merit!

Recalling what he had seen in his previous life, where disciples of the three religions were eager to help the human race, Zhao Si was very sure that this was for merit.

In that life, when the human race encountered various troubles, the saints' disciples would lower their lofty attitudes and enthusiastically provide help to the human race:
The demons were committing massacres, so the saints, who had always viewed all living beings as ants, provided shelter for the human race.

The human race lacked tools, so the disciples of the Jiejiao sect, who were good at refining tools, provided magical tools for free everywhere.

The human race has no morals or etiquette, so the followers of the Chan sect who are passionate about this travel far and wide to provide free moral lectures to the human race.

Even Xuan Du, who advocated "tranquility and inaction", did not mind stepping forward to rescue an old man when he saw him break his leg.

If Zhao Sixiang didn't know the mechanism for obtaining "merit", he would probably never be able to figure out why these disciples of the saints, who acted like they had a lot of power in all parts of the prehistoric world, would be so courteous to the human race.

But once they knew the mechanism of merit, these people's selfless and sagely behavior suddenly became utilitarian!

It's not bad to earn merits... "In the last simulation, the human race didn't make many achievements in civilization, so the saints' disciples' assistance to the human race is not objectionable. At most, it can be considered utilitarian."

"But this time, after the protagonist has brought the human race into a civilized state, the disciples of the Second Sect would rather destroy their existing achievements in civilization and insist on leading the human race to develop again... This is really too much!"

The purpose of this incredible operation is self-evident!

"These people have gone crazy in order to maximize their merit gains..."

Zhao Si looked very nervous:
The essence of the behavior of the disciples of the Second Religion is that they will go forward even if there are difficulties; if there are no difficulties, they will create difficulties and go forward. In any case, they must not lose out on merit!
"But that's not right. Wouldn't a person with great merit be favored by the heavens, so that the enemy wouldn't dare to kill him? I have governed the human race for more than 700 years. Not only have I turned them from savages into healthy and civilized people, I have also increased the population by tens of thousands of times. This merit can't be considered low, right? How come these guys just killed me when they said so?!"

Zhao Si was confused. Why didn't you make any movement, Heaven? The Purple Sky Divine Thunder would strike me!

"Could it be..."

Zhao Si flipped through it again and quickly grasped the key points:

It wasn't just one person who killed the protagonist, but hundreds of Jiechan disciples who worked together. So theoretically speaking, if there were only one or two people who killed the protagonist, the Purple Sky Divine Thunder would definitely be satisfied.

But there seems to be a hatred value mechanism in the way of heaven. When the number of criminals increases, the responsibility for the crime becomes smaller and is averaged out to several hundred people. Therefore, the law does not punish everyone, and even if they are punished, the crime does not warrant the death penalty.

Secondly, the merits of the human race do not all belong to him alone. His cheating father has sent more than a thousand brothers and sisters to help, so in fact the merits are divided up by more than a thousand dragons, and the merits that fall on him are not as much as he imagined.

So after hundreds of people killed themselves together, they only imprisoned the other one thousand dragons but did not dare to kill them. If they really wanted to chop them all off, even if there were hundreds of people to share the blame, the Purple Sky Divine Thunder would still be indispensable.

"So, the protagonist was tricked to death by that cheap dad..."

After figuring out the trick, Zhao Si was too tired to complain.

But he had no choice. After all, there was no option given to him in this section. It was the protagonist's own behavior. Even if Zhao Si wanted to control it, he couldn't.

"never mind!"

After thinking for a while, Zhao Si adjusted his mentality and carefully clicked to continue the game. Now that he had found out the key information, he had to make good use of it:

[Can time go back and return to the previous life option? ]

"Yes!"

【Time has gone back...】

[…Faced with the unknown intentions of the Jiechan Sect members, you feel wary. What is your choice: (?)]

[A: Disdainful. You, a bunch of little bastards from an illegal society that doesn't even have a place in the Heavenly Court, are you qualified to talk to the noble chieftain personally ordered by the Heavenly Emperor? B: Sliding down to his knees, Xiaolong is so lucky to be able to call a saint's disciple a fellow Taoist. At the same time, he readily agreed to all the other party's conditions.]

"B!"

[You choose option B, and slide to your knees. Xiaolong is so lucky to be able to call the saint's disciple a fellow Taoist. At the same time, he readily agrees to all the other party's conditions.]

[Your flattering speech surprised Guangchengzi. He originally wanted to make a win-win deal with you on a relatively equal footing, but now it seems that he can get it for free...]

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(End of this chapter)