The Raven Spirit was like a chick being held by the neck, feebly kicking its crow legs, unable to speak at the moment.

"Pre, predecessor, spare my life!" the Raven Spirit struggled to say.

Su Xiaowei looked at this raven, truly so black it shone, and if you looked really closely, it was quite beautiful.

"This raven is quite pretty, and its cultivation level isn’t bad. Why not stew it to nourish you?" Wang Xuan tossed the cage to the side.

Upon hearing Wang Xuan say he was going to eat it, the Raven Spirit trembled; was it really this vicious?

"Please don’t eat me, I’m willing to become the predecessor’s servant, to serve you for life, to work like an ox or a horse. If you tell me to go east, I won’t go west.

Just spare me a way out!" The Raven Spirit was about to cry.

On normal days, it was a mighty Demon King, accustomed to ruling supreme in its domain, making even Human Immortals and Earth Immortals nod their heads to it.

But today, it’s about to be cooked and eaten with indifference!

This kind of death, too shameful and worthless.

Su Xiaowei shook her head gently, "Brother Wang, although it has done evil, it can atone for its sins, which is far better than killing it outright."

Stopping evil by killing is not as good as having the evildoer do good for the rest of their life.

Moreover, although all beings are considered equal, killing a Celestial Demon with centuries of cultivation for a few ordinary people would indeed be questioned by the Cultivation Realm.

The life of a Celestial Tier living being is too valuable; one can equal a million warriors, this is not an exaggeration.

Wang Xuan was actually just scaring this Raven Spirit. Over the years of cultivation, especially after becoming a True Inheritor of the Immortal Martial Mountain, there are only a handful within the Earth Civilization that he’s personally killed, especially vital forces against the Alien Race, that he can count them on his fingers.

Upon hearing Su Xiaowei’s words, the Raven Spirit nodded quickly: "I still need to atone for my mistakes, there’s no chance if I’m dead."

In fact, in its heart, it didn’t really think it had any significant mistakes that needed atoning. It hadn’t slaughtered wantonly nor rebelled.

Even elephants can inadvertently trample tens of thousands of ants, right? If ordinary people knew the strangeness of Crow Mountain and didn’t move away, who can they blame for being tainted by Demon Qi?

According to the laws of nature, these two people standing before it are simply those with nothing better to do.

Ordinary people are weak, and that’s justified? Must it always be wary not to hurt ordinary people, like an elephant constantly watching its step not to squash an ant?

It’s a dignified Celestial Demon, why should it invite these weaklings home and treat them like ancestors, living so laboriously?

Humans are such hypocrites, clearly acting for their own interests, but dragging out a bunch of moral reasons.

Claiming ordinary people also have dignity, why should they be treated as ants, why should they be ordinary.

Unfair! Unfair!

If that’s how the world is, I must defy it!

What unfairness, what defiance. Get riled up when your interests are violated; envious because someone else has meat in their pot while you have none, it’s that simple.

In the natural world, the strong prey on the weak, being weak is the original sin, and what power you have determines what class of rights and treatment you enjoy.

That’s all there is to it.

Like how it, the Black Mountain Crow, appears obedient and docile as a husky before Wang Xuan.

"Nowadays, humans are in charge, and even though you are of the Demon Race, you have to follow human rules. In the All Heavens and Myriads of Worlds, the bigger the fist, the bigger the rules.

In the Solar System, human rules are the Celestial Rules. Since you’ve erred, accepting punishment is only right."

Wang Xuan glanced at the Raven Spirit, instantly scaring it into a shiver, thinking this guy truly is a reincarnated Killing God.

Every creature knows its own path; ordinary people and cultivators are fundamentally two worlds, with completely different rules applying.

But in today’s Earth Civilization, there still isn’t a complete separation between the Human Realm and the Cultivation Realm where ordinary people and cultivators live separately.

Humans and Dragons live mixed together, and cases like the Raven Spirit are not few. This issue might be resolved in the future, but it currently persists.

However, since ordinary people reap the benefits of cultivators existing in the world, gaining access to many Cultivation Techniques and resources, they also naturally face the concurrent dangers.

There’s nothing unfair about it.

"Brother Wang, what are rules?" Su Xiaowei asked curiously.

Wang Xuan smiled and said, "Rules are things that make it easier for living beings to coexist and protect each other’s interests.

Under normal circumstances, principles that safeguard the interests of the majority form rules, like laws, morals, and industry standards.

But in reality, once rules aren’t recognized, they’re worth nothing.

A thousand years ago, ministers being disloyal to the king were deemed treacherous, but now anyone talking about the codes between king and minister is considered a fool.

Even within the same era, in the same region, even in the same family, people’s codes of conduct can be vastly different due to reasons like environment, cognition, and wisdom.

The reason the world is so colorful and yet so vexing is probably because of this."

The rules a person follows are unique in this world; if this is what it means to be a path seeker, then they are destined to be lonely for life.

Each person is lonely, whether it’s as a couple, a parent and child, or the closest of friends, no matter how close they are, they can never truly become one.

This is the lonely fate of living beings, and also the inevitable result of conscious existence.

"Aren’t rules good?" Su Xiaowei asked again.

Wang Xuan said, "Of course they are good. Human rules are the accumulation of many generations.

Some benefit from rules, while others are shackled by them; I wouldn’t be surprised at what some people might do for their own interests.

Rules create peace and stability; without rules, there would only be survival of the fittest, leading to chaos and primitivism.

Like me, if I didn’t follow rules, this Raven Spirit would have been killed for meat, but now it has a chance to survive."

Wang Xuan pinched the Raven Spirit in his hand, the Creation Domain enveloping it, with a large amount of Creation Vitality surging in.

The pitch-black Raven Spirit gradually turned black and white; even an ordinary person could immediately recognize it as an auspicious magpie.

With a face full of horror, the Raven Spirit wondered how it, the mighty Black Mountain Crow, turned into a magpie?

"Having a raven around a Buddhist Female Cultivator is indeed unlucky, so become a magpie.

In ten years, you’ll naturally return to your original form.

If you obsessively cultivate virtue, accumulate merit, and help the masses, becoming an envoy under Mingxin, I will help you transform into the body of a Golden Crow.

But if you dare wield demonic power recklessly, I will skin you and extract your tendons."

Whatever Wang Xuan said, the Raven Spirit nodded repeatedly, knowing it had no choice but to abide by Wang Xuan’s rules to survive.

"Xiaowei, you can bestow it with a name for its new life," Wang Xuan said.

"How about calling it Xi Lai?" Su Xiaowei named it with equal casualness, but the purer the name, the more delightful it was.

Xi Lai perched on the girl’s shoulder, cawing gleefully. Although its demonic power and cultivation level remained, it would only maintain this appearance for the next ten years.

Wang Xuan’s terror left it with no courage to resist.

Directly changing the species of this Celestial Demon wasn’t merely a Blinding Technique or Transformation Technique; achieving such a feat is unimaginably difficult.

This person is truly mysterious and powerful.

Fortunately, he didn’t turn it into a pig, Xi Lai thought with relief.

Thus, the matter of Crow Mountain came to a close, easing a burden from the girl’s mind.

Moreover, she gained a subordinate comparable to a Jade Platform Celestial Immortal, adding a bit of assurance to her future travels among humans.

Wang Xuan looked at Xi Lai and said, "This demon is proud and fierce but still useful. If you can enlighten it and turn its heart towards good, then the Buddhist Dharma will truly be accomplished."

Su Xiaowei nodded, "I know people suffer greatly from hardships, and relieving them from immediate troubles is a lower path; allowing their spirit to find redemption is the higher path.

But for now, I can only relieve temporary troubles. Enabling beings to redeem themselves and purify their spirits is truly difficult."

"Difficult, but it must be done," Wang Xuan said solemnly, for this was the key to Su Xiaowei’s path to enlightenment.

"Years ago, your master, the Universal Relief Bodhisattva, helped me deduce the Buddhist skills, thus I have some insights into Buddhist Dharma.

Today, I will write you a scripture to guide people through inner suffering."

"A complete scripture of lasting standard would take even a Bodhisattva years of seclusion. Brother Wang, don’t waste your time on my account," Su Xiaowei shook her head.

"Now that you have achieved the Earth Immortal level, you share the same sky as me, but your perspective is not yet broad enough."

Wang Xuan’s spirit soared, "If I say I can do it, then I surely will! Tell me the scriptures you know, and organize your cultivation understanding.

Today, I shall create your scripture to spread the path."