"Master, isn't Blood-Handed Asura a big villain? How can you be friends with a big villain?" Yuwen Xiangyu said indignantly, looking thoroughly disappointed as if her master had strayed from the righteous path.

"Haha, a big villain? Indeed, in many people's eyes, Ling Feng is a villain, no, he should be called a Devil!" Dark Night said with a smile, "But is there really such a thing as good and evil, right and wrong in this world?"

"Of course there is!" Yuwen Xiangyu insisted, "Everyone says Blood-Handed Asura has committed countless evil deeds and kills without batting an eye. So many people hate him to the bone!"

Dark Night sighed, stroked Yuwen Xiangyu's hair, and said, "Yes, that's how people see Ling Feng. But how many of them know that the merciless killer they fear is, in fact, just a pitiful person?"

"A pitiful person?" Yuwen Xiangyu blinked, unable to reconcile the image of Ling Feng with that of a pitiable person.

"Master, then tell me about Ling Feng, will you?" Yuwen Xiangyu cooed.

Dark Night smiled: "Alright, I'll tell you about him. At least it will let you know that the world is not simply black and white, which will be good for your future!"

"The first time I met Ling Feng, also known as Blood-Handed Asura, he had just annihilated a major European family. Not one of the one hundred and thirty-seven members survived! I was furious then. Against such an executioner, of course, I took action!"

"But what shocked me was that I didn't defeat him; our battle was evenly matched. Furthermore, he had a pair of cold, trembling eyes," said Dark Night. "When I asked him why he was so ruthlessly inhumane, he didn't explain and just turned and left!"

"After conducting some investigation, I learned that the family was notoriously tyrannical, bullying the weak, violating women, committing all sorts of atrocities! Despite that, I still felt Blood-Handed Asura's murderous inclination was too strong! However, something that happened later changed my perception of him!"

Dark Night continued: "Not long afterward, I received a plea for help in a letter from a good friend of mine! Someone in the Underworld had offered a hundred million US Dollars for his life, and the order was picked up by the Divine Gate organization!"

"Because my friend was charitable and had helped many children displaced by war, and he had harshly criticized some belligerent organizations, it brought a deadly threat upon him! It was only after I got there that I discovered Blood-Handed Asura, Ling Feng himself, was the one who came to kill my friend!"

Yuwen Xiangyu couldn't help but gasp, covering her mouth in disbelief.

"I was even a bit desperate then; I wasn't sure if I could protect my friend from Blood-Handed Asura's attack, but strangely enough, this time Blood-Handed Asura didn't seem as domineering and was actually beaten into severe injury and fled by me!" Dark Night explained.

Yuwen Xiangyu said with a grin: "Master is so awesome!"

"It's not that I'm incredible, but that he held back!" Dark Night said with a wry smile. "After that battle, I developed a great interest in Blood-Handed Asura, so I conducted a secret investigation of him. The results of my investigation left me silent for a long time!"

"Blood-Handed Asura is the strongest Gene Warrior produced by Divine Gate's experiments. His actions are controlled by Divine Gate. Although he's known as one of the Eight War Gods, he's like a War God trapped in a cage. Divine Gate controls his life and death. He's like a puppet, conforming to the wishes of Divine Gate, with no concept of good or evil, mechanically carrying out his actions like a clockwork!"

"How could that be?" Yuwen Xiangyu was stunned. He was one of the Eight War Gods, after all! Which of the other War Gods in the Underworld didn't command their own territory, each of them imposing and formidable?

"The truth is indeed so," Dark Night continued. "Despite that, Ling Feng still held on to his own convictions and beliefs—this is what I admire most about him! Do you really think that he lost to me because he lacked strength? He simply knew that my friend was a truly good person and didn't want such a good person to die in vain!"

"If I hadn't been there, I believe he wouldn't have hesitated to twist off my friend's head. But since I was there, he spared my friend's life. Although he didn't say it outright, I understood his intentions!" Dark Night exhaled and said, "From that time, I sought a battle with him every year. Gradually, a tacit understanding developed between us, a mutual respect unique to us."

"Five years ago, after a battle, I asked him if he needed my help. By then, I was the leader of the Supernatural Organization, and I believed that with my help, I had an eighty percent chance of freeing Ling Feng from the control of Divine Gate. But he turned me down!"

Yuwen Xiangyu didn't understand. "If he had such an opportunity, why would he refuse? Could he be a masochist?"

Dark Night shot Yuwen Xiangyu a look. "He told me then that Divine Gate injected him with a type of Gene Medicine to control him. If he didn't receive an antidote every six months, he would be in agonizing pain. This was another method Divine Gate used to control him!"

Yuwen Xiangyu widened her eyes, and for some reason, a trace of sympathy and pity for Ling Feng suddenly flickered in her heart.

"I thought that was the reason he rejected my offer until the battle against Divine Gate six months ago. That was when I finally understood the real reason why Ling Feng turned me away. It wasn't because of the Gene Medicine; it was because he had long been determined to destroy Divine Gate!" Dark Night said admiringly. "Divine Gate thought they could completely control Ling Feng with the medicine, but they never considered that Ling Feng had never taken their drug seriously from the beginning!"

"Every time Divine Gate gave him the medicine, he didn't take it but endured the torment with his own body. He said that he wanted to use the pain to engrave every atrocity Divine Gate committed against him, to remember the deep-seated hatred. That hatred underpinned Ling Feng's survival through fifteen years of humiliation and eventually fueled his destruction of Divine Gate!" Dark Night sighed. "He finally found an opportunity and, six months ago, incited most of the Assassins to conduct a frenzied slaughter on Divine Gate!"

"In that battle, Divine Gate's instructors fell, and the man claimed to be closest to God was slain by Ling Feng with a single palm strike! Mad Doctor died, and the genius touted as the most monstrous talent in a millennium had his head crushed by Ling Feng! It was then I found out that Ling Feng's parents died at the hands of Divine Gate right before his eyes, and that hatred meant to remind himself of the agony, supported him through fifteen years to ultimately bring Divine Gate down!"

"I know that in the eyes of many, Ling Feng is still that murderer without limit, a Devil who commits all evils. But in my heart, Dark Night, he is a true man, a warrior worth befriending!" Dark Night declared solemnly.

"Xiangyu, in this world, you need to learn to see with your own eyes, not just listen with your ears! Sometimes, you can't even see the truth for what it is, let alone base your judgment on hearsays!" Dark Night said earnestly. "The chick must eventually leave the nest, and the eagle must face the storm. I won't always be by your side. Remember, if you're ever alone out there, the most valuable thing is to have your own thoughts. Disregard the views of society; being true to yourself is the real value of one's existence!"

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