Chapter 140 Right and Wrong
Fortunately, the planet they were currently on was relatively far from the battlefield and had not yet been affected.
They admired the magnificent scene before them.
The clash, destruction, and fusion of the universe's innate treasures from two high-level planes, ultimately forming an innate spiritual treasure, was a sight that most cultivators in the Prime World would never witness in their lifetime.
Today, they had been brought back to the Moral Plane of 50,000 years ago and were fortunate enough to see this scene.
The Nest of Sin and the Wheel of Morality were still collapsing, their internal rule-based spiritual treasures merging with each other. The enormous celestial bodies became impurities to be discarded.
Another day passed, and the two vast celestial bodies remained vast, showing no visible signs of diminishing.
"Now, all the virtuous people have lost their powers."
Little Yellow Dog continued to watch the scene in the sky.
"What about the sinners?"
"The two Supreme Sinners, seeing that the virtuous people had become mortals, kicked them aside and wanted to drive out the immortals, which gave the immortals a reason to strip the sinners of their power.
Actually, whether there was a reason or not didn't matter; these sinners would eventually lose their sinful power.
The entire process happened within minutes of each other. Now, everyone in this universe should have become mortals."
"Gurgle… gurgle…"
Fang Xiaoyu's stomach uncooperatively growled.
"What's wrong?"
Wan Lei worriedly stroked Fang Xiaoyu's stomach.
"I… I'm hungry."
Fang Xiaoyu's face flushed slightly, feeling embarrassed. Having lived for so long, this was the first time she had experienced the feeling of hunger.
"I think I'm a little hungry too. We've been mortals for three days now; it's time to get hungry. Let's go find something to eat."
Wan Lei looked at Fang Xiaoyu's pitiful appearance and felt extremely sorry for her.
This young princess from a peak power in the Lei Feng Realm had been pampered since she was a child, waited on hand and foot. Yet, following him had led to her going hungry. It was truly his fault.
"When we fell towards this planet, I remember there was a small town south of Mapleheart City. We've already traveled so far south, so it shouldn't be too far away. Let's go look there."
Fang Xiaoyu pointed south with her little finger and pulled Wan Lei in that direction.
"Let's go, let's go."
Little Yellow Dog also jumped onto Wan Lei's shoulder.
"The process of fusing the celestial bodies and refining the Rule Compass will take half a year. We'll starve to death if we just stand here and watch."
"I understand the reasoning, but can you get off my shoulder?"
"No, I don't know when we'll find food. I need to conserve energy. You can be my mount for now. I'll lead you into battle."
The two hungry humans and one dog walked step by step across the scorched and barren land towards the south.
The two looked very disheveled, covered in dirt and blood from the series of battles, and still bearing some injuries.
Their storage bags were still unusable, so they didn't even have a change of clothes.
This was extremely difficult for Fang Xiaoyu, who had always loved beauty and cleanliness.
But no matter how unbearable it was, she had to grit her teeth and endure it. They hadn't found any clothes to change into or a place to bathe yet.
Fang Xiaoyu entwined her two soft swords around her waist, the tips locked into the hilts. To an outsider, it looked like an ordinary belt, and they couldn't tell that it was actually two swords.
There was no way to hide Wan Lei's Thunder God's Hammer; he had to carry it in his hand. If he hung it on his belt, it would pull his pants down.
All their cultivation, including their spiritual sense and even their Thunder Body and Wind Body, had been stripped away. The immortals' intention was simple: to prevent them from using any power beyond that of mortals.
To Wan Lei's surprise, he could still easily lift the Thunder God's Hammer even without any supernatural power, but Fang Xiaoyu couldn't. She couldn't lift the hammer, which weighed as much as a planet, even a little bit.
The two supported each other, walking step by step. It was truly a case of "mountains seeming close but being far away." They hadn't thought the city was so far away when they were in the sky, but walking there on two legs felt like an eternity.
By evening, they arrived outside a dilapidated village.
Calling it a village was almost an exaggeration.
It only had five scattered small houses, some made of mud bricks, others built from wooden planks, all with thatched roofs. In the distance, they could see a small patch of farmland planted with some unknown crops.
In the village, two men were pulling a pile of firewood, their clothes simple and full of holes and patches. They chatted and laughed as they piled the firewood between two of the houses.
Outside the closest small house, an old woman sat. The old woman had a full head of white hair and was thin and gaunt, but her face couldn't hide her joy.
She was mashing some kind of grain, which looked a bit like rice and a bit like wheat.
"Grandma, hello."
Wan Lei greeted the old woman from afar, his face beaming with a warm smile.
In his eyes, this was a small village where life was hard but the people were happy.
The people here must be very simple and honest.
The old woman looked up at Wan Lei and Fang Xiaoyu and smiled.
"What handsome young people! Did you encounter bad guys? Why are you injured? Let Grandma bandage you up."
As she spoke, the old woman stood up shakily, walked into the house, and came out a moment later with some clean strips of cloth in her hands.
"No need, Grandma, we're just passing by."
These strips of cloth were probably the only clean cloths the old woman had in her house, and Wan Lei didn't want to waste them.
"Look, the wounds have already scabbed over; it's nothing."
"Oh, okay then. You must be hungry, right? Sit down first. After I finish pounding this rice, I'll cook for you. Come into the house and sit down."
The hospitable old woman pulled them into the house and had them sit down.
There were two very old and simple wooden stools.
"Are you virtuous people or sinners?"
"Grandma, we're lower sinners. We encountered bad guys on the road and were saved by a kind person. Now we're going to the city in the south to take a look."
Fang Xiaoyu smiled sweetly. People who could live in this kind of place must be sinners; the virtuous people couldn't endure this kind of hardship. So Fang Xiaoyu directly said that she was a sinner, hoping to gain sympathy and resonance.
"Good, good. Come back tomorrow after you've eaten your fill. In this world, there's no way for us sinners to live. Fortunately, today we discovered that the gray aura on our bodies has disappeared. Everyone is very happy and preparing to go to the city together tomorrow to see if everyone else is the same.
Seeing that you don't have any gray aura on your bodies either, I'm relieved. Good days are coming for us sinners!
You sit here. After I finish pounding the rice, I'll cook some porridge for you. The Lao Xu family has vegetables in their garden; I'll go pick some. You're still young; you can't go hungry…"