Becoming evil makes you ten times stronger, but becoming a demon gives you hundredfold strength

Dragons soar across the nine heavens, while ants bow their heads to march on.

As a Qi Refinement practitioner at the initial stage... well, better to call him a white-collar worker, Wang Qinglin had recently taken great interest in the news about Meng Yu.

At the age of thirty-five, he had finally attained the status of Qi Refinement Practitioner and had never even considered the possibility of achieving Foundation Establishment.

As for the news and stories of those at the Golden Core and Nascent Soul levels, they were less appealing to him than watching videos of pretty girls dancing.

During this time, he paid close attention to the news about Meng Yu.

Even though the media hype had painted Meng Yu as someone reckless and foolish, who could supposedly save five thousand people with just one of his hairs, or even hundreds of thousands of miners, Wang Qinglin always felt that such claims were utter nonsense.

He worked his fingers to the bone for a year at the company, and his boss bought another Flying Boat; another coworker Li worked hard for ten years, and the boss's son achieved Foundation Establishment... So tell me, if the boss can't achieve the Golden Pill of Achievement, does that mean they weren't working hard enough?

He had no empathy for his boss, but he could relate to Meng Yu. The news reports brought up Meng Yu's past, which was different from last time. The previous coverage was local, and many details had been suppressed. Now, people were digging into why Meng Yu had to kill his kin years ago and why the Enforcement Hall didn't help him back then.

Indeed, just like Wang Qinglin, if he had received a scholarship during his studies and had enough family wealth when pursuing higher education, he wouldn't be in such a state now. So now, if one day the company boss runs into trouble and he has to risk his life to save the boss, should he go and save him or, like Meng Yu, stand by and do nothing?

The boss's wife is a nice person, but that's not a reason for him to risk his life.

He thought about it and liked a post by a certain council member who supported Meng Yu. He felt that the councilor had done a good job.

Similarly, many people chose the same way to show their support for Meng Yu.

…

Hall Master Zhao sat in the room, chatting with the CEO of Star Industrial, and then they talked about Meng Yu and Hongye Prison.

Old Liefire had died suddenly years ago, and there were rumors that Meng Yu had been the one to kill him. Despite the Prison Warden's best efforts to conceal the matter, including destroying evidence, with Star Industrial paving the way with money and Hall Master Zhao's support behind the scenes, they were able to press down with various pressures and an investigation yielded some results.

The Warden of Hongye Prison, cunning in his own way, had kept a piece of evidence for himself when cleaning up, hoping to seek the greatest benefit in the future. Now, under immense pressure, he had surrendered, and the evidence, along with a witness, had fallen into the hands of Star Industrial.

"Old Zhao, what do you think we should do now, should we make it public right away?"

CEO Wang said with a grin, for with this evidence, they could get Meng Yu killed.

"Wait a bit."

Hall Master Zhao thought for a few minutes before speaking.

Zhao Yuxiang had died, and he was extraordinarily angry, feeling that they should have killed Meng Yu directly back then. But who could have expected that despite all the negative media against Meng Yu, the voices supporting him were not few.

Nowadays, there are many online trolls slandering Meng Yu, but… contrary to what they wished for, Meng Yu's reputation was getting better.

It's all about empathy.

Not to mention anything else, just the fact that Meng Yu refused Hall Master Zhao's recruiting, refused the Pure Yang Technique and Nine Yang Pill alone won him countless popularity votes. And if Meng Yu could think of using Hall Master Zhao's past proposal to deceive Zhuge Caihua, how could the social media not dig it out?

Although many media outlets are afraid of Hall Master Zhao and Star Industrial, countless self-media saw the potential for traffic and began to investigate why Meng Yu took to a life of crime. What they dug up was Meng Yu's past actions, repeated complaints, pleas for help, and then being turned down, eventually driving him to desperation and to kill.

Ah, everything became clear, it turned out that it started with the Zhao Family wronging someone. So, even if you lay out the road to success in front of someone, but if they are too prideful to take handouts!

Then, there's also the honest and hard-working old workhorse, over-fulfilling various tasks but offending the leaders because of their recruitment attempts, then being oppressed like this, constantly troubled by business trips that hinder one's cultivation. After complaints and enduring all sorts, they still weren't satisfied, and even wanted him to fight a desperate battle for your granddaughter. When he refused, this is how you respond: hiring someone to commit murder!

Looking at it now, Zhao Yuxuan's hiring of murderers is just too stupid!

And now, if the evidence of Meng Yu's murder from years ago was made public, how would the public view it?

Or rather, how would the Enforcement Hall and various action departments of the Immortal Sect view it?

Alas, the old workhorse has been driven to such a state, and you even sent people to assassinate him. Now, after uncovering his dark past, are you going to sentence him to death in a court of law?

"These pieces of evidence, along with the witnesses, have been moved to a safe place. Now is not the time to take them out; otherwise, it's us who would be embarrassed," said Hall Master Zhao, brimming with frustration.

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"However, you needn't worry. Once this hearing is over, we'll submit the evidence to the higher-ups, hold a meeting, and send him off to a place where he's bound to perish. Then, everything will be over. But for now, we can't take it out!" Hall Master Zhao continued to speak in this manner.

...

The hearing concerning the defeat in the Scorpio Minor World was drawing to a close. As the protagonist subjected to the inquiry, Meng Yu certainly had the right to present his statement.

He looked around; Councilor Wang and others were Foundation Establishment practitioners or possessed various strengths, and outside the conference hall, there were Golden Cores providing protection; it seemed impossible for him to unleash a great feat of strength.

Many cameras were pointed at Meng Yu; everyone was eager to see what rubbish would come out of his mouth.Nôv(el)B\\jnn

Those independent media digging, Meng Yu saw them, and he also learned a piece of news—the Prison Warden of Hongye Prison had vanished with his entire family not so long ago.

Well, let's hope he didn't secretly keep any evidence of his own involvement in a murder.

So, it was time to repeat the words he had given to Zhuge Caihua back then.

"Gentlemen, as I have said, let me tell you about the origin of everything, a story worth a million dollars," said Meng Yu, clearing his throat, a remark that left the vast majority baffled.

He pressed his wristwatch, and on the large screen, a photo of a girl popped up. She was fourteen, her smile blooming like a flower.

"Half a year before I was imprisoned, a girl named Mo Tianying committed suicide.

Her stepfather vetoed her request to purchase a Third-Grade Marrow-Cleansing Pill. She resolutely refused to agree to the transfer or sale of the Marrow-Cleansing Pill, nor was she willing to lick her stepfather's xx. Consequently, the stepfather vetoed everything, and her mother sided with him.

Mo Tianying and I share a similar fate: our fathers sacrificed themselves for the Immortal Sect, and then the child could exchange for a Third-Grade Marrow-Cleansing Pill. Unfortunately, starting from thirty years ago, the Immortal Sect imposed a restriction—what was originally a free Third-Grade Marrow-Cleansing Pill now cost a million dollars to buy.

The proposal was by Hall Master Zhao. His logic was simple: a Marrow-Cleansing Pill with a market value of five million dollars is now one million dollars. Do you have any objections? Surely no one can't come up with this one million, right? Even if the guardian is an imbecile, they wouldn't fail to exchange it, right?

But I applied twice and was vetoed both times by my guardian. He wanted to keep me down, he would rather suffer a loss than see me succeed.

And as for Mo Tianying," her stepfather wanted her to kneel down and XXXXXXX!

"Thank you, Hall Master Zhao. Thank you, gentlemen. Thanks to your wise and mighty decisions, we, the parentless children whose parents sacrificed themselves for the Immortal Sect, now have a brighter future."

Meng Yu stood on the stage, looking down at the crowd below.

Some were on guard, prepared for him to lash out violently; some sneered, thinking he had gone mad; and others...

Yesterday, when those people came to threaten him, did they think he had agreed?

Heh, heh, since they've shown such love, ah no, since they've come, let's play on a grander scale.

Somebody was already investigating Old Liefire's section; he didn't think the Prison Warden would be able to withstand it.

He had been preparing for a long time.

"Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for attending this hearing. I've said all I wanted to say. Oh, and there's one more thing: I've been lying to everyone in the past—I killed my third uncle, burned him to ashes, and flushed him down the toilet. Thank you all."

He smiled gently, took a deep bow, and the audience erupted into commotion!