Ji Kao's soul was completely stunned.

He didn't quite understand.

He can understand these people's words, but what do these words mean when combined.

Also, he is now...

Ji Kao lowered his head and looked below the clouds, overlooking the entire Chaoge City, then looked left and right, looked at the sky, and turned around twice.

"This is your soul," Li Ping'an said in Ji Dan's usual tone, "it is also the foundation of life."

"this……"

"I won't tell you the specifics," Li Ping'an said. "For the sake of you and my brother, feel free to say whatever you want. As long as it doesn't affect other mortals, I can help you as appropriate."

Li Dazhi looked at the sky calmly.

Good guys, this is for limiting conditions.

We are the Emperor of Heaven and the Taoist Master, the absolute leader in the entire world, so we have to be so cautious in fulfilling a mortal's wish.

All I can say is...this kind of son makes Li Dazhi feel a little strange.

Ji Kao laughed bitterly: "What on earth is going on?"

"Nothing, you have been killed by Di Xin, it's that simple."

Li Ping'an looked into Ji Kao's eyes. The latter was much calmer at the moment, looking down at his hands, slightly absent-minded.

Ji Kao kept muttering: "So, I was wrong from the beginning."

"It's not wrong," Li Ping'an said, "It's just that he is limited by what he knows, and Di Xin used some means to influence his mind. People can't understand things beyond their own knowledge, or they can't accept them directly. This

It’s understandable.”

"Then why did you..." Ji Kao hesitated.

"Jikao, I have actually reminded you many times."

Li Pingan also said helplessly:

"After you returned to Xiqi City, I did it five times just pretending to be your ancestor to entrust you with dreams, but you didn't take it to heart every time.

"For a while, I couldn't figure out what your position was.

"You are swaying and erratic. There was a time when you hated Emperor Xin but you didn't dare to say it, so you could only hurt yourself to vent it. There was a time when you were afraid of Emperor Xin like a god and didn't even dare to look east. Ji Chang is also extremely disappointed in you.

He is also observing you through the eyes he has planted around you.

“You can tolerate it, but not much;

"You practice martial arts secretly, but you never achieve anything.

"Until you came to Chaoge City this time, I thought you were going to Di Xin to plead with me openly. Given the current situation, Di Xin may not be able to agree.

"But I really didn't expect that you would still go to the merchant's side and want to use your two brothers, Ji Fa and Ji Dan, as sacrifices to the merchant."

Li Ping'an couldn't help but complain:

"Jikao, what do you want?

"Sometimes you think about the people of Zhou, sometimes you only think about yourself, sometimes you think about power, and sometimes you are too cowardly to speak loudly to your servants.

"The bad ones are not pure enough, and the good ones are not thorough enough.

"I feel like you are about to split up."

Ji Kao was stunned, not knowing how to answer.

Li Dazhi said from the side: "Stop scolding, don't scold, it's not easy for this child. He should have achieved success as a young man, but he was taken to Chaoge City as a hostage. When he returned to Xiqi City, he was nearly middle-aged, and was also captured by Zhou Guo.

The ministers disliked and ostracized him, and Ji Kao's own position was uncertain because he was so stimulated that a normal person would collapse."

Ji Kao's Adam's apple trembled a few times, and he looked up at Li Ping'an.

"What about you?" Ji Kao said in a trembling voice, "Why, why don't you just destroy this great merchant! Aren't you the Emperor of Heaven? Isn't the Emperor of Heaven the greatest among the gods? Why don't you do anything!"

"I'm doing it," Li Ping'an shrugged, "I just threw Ji Fa back, why do you say you're not doing anything?"

Ji Kao asked: "Then why don't you punish Di Xin! He is cruel, unkind, tyrannical, and immoral! Why don't you punish him!"

"First, the laws of heaven have not yet clearly stipulated the common customs of Nanzhou.

"Second, what you see Emperor Xin doing is the political struggle of Emperor Xin as a mortal emperor. From the perspective of the Zhou people, he was cruel and unkind, but after he came to the throne, his number was more than twenty Zhou people.

The number of merchants is multiplying, living and working in peace and contentment, and the population is increasing in an orderly manner."

Li Pingan said calmly:

"As for Emperor Xin's guilt, he entered the underworld after his death and was judged by the judges of Yama Palace. Most of them would not end well.

"The reason why I used the identity of Ji Dan was because I wanted to solve the crisis between heaven and earth. It has been solved now.

"And now, the reason why I help Zhou Guo is just because of one thing - I hate human sacrifice."

Ji Kao was startled for a moment.

"If you look at Emperor Xin, it is not good that Emperor Xin was cruel and dissolute, but as a merchant king, he was also good in the eyes of the merchants by undermining the princes of various places and protecting the merchants and people.

"This is the polyhedron."

Li Pingan said calmly:

"Everyone is a polyhedron, with human nature, animal nature, and divinity mixed with each other to create an extremely complex world.

"Before I became the Emperor of Heaven, I was just a Qi refiner of the human race. I followed Emperor Xuanyuan Huang to fight in the Western Continent. I also fought against evil spirits in heaven and earth. I tried and worked hard for the rise of the human race.

“But as I continued to understand the Great Dao, understood the nature of this world, and saw the path I would take in the future, I turned to the road of emptiness and solitude.

"I will only do what I think is right.

"The elimination of human sacrifice and the determination of etiquette are what I think is right.

"I oppose destiny and fate, but I will also intervene directly... This is also a contradiction.

"When my understanding of Tao reaches a deeper level, I will also deny my previous naive ideas, and I will be able to understand the difficulty of Xuanyuan Huangdi's time. This is to continue to grow in contradictions."

Jikao's Adam's apple trembled up and down, and he frowned and asked, "Can you explain it simply? Why don't you punish Di Xin?"

"There is no need for me to punish him. After his death, he will be judged by his karma," Li Ping'an said calmly, "I am just ensuring the birth of Zhou Li and the advancement of civilization, that's all."

"What is etiquette?"

"Ritual is the frame of the word order. It is recognized by most people, established by convention, and a model of rules and regulations. It is also the core of culture, education, inheritance, and civilization."

Ji Kao asked in confusion: "What is Zhou Li?"

"It is the development of etiquette that Zhou Kingdom will promote in the future, so it is called Zhou Rites."

Ji Kao's eyes were full of light: "We, the Zhou State, will take over the Shang State and replace it?"

"Not necessarily," Li Ping'an pondered for a few times, "Zhou Li is just what I said. In fact, it doesn't have to be the Zhou Kingdom. It can be the rise of any country, or it can be the Shang Kingdom's own self-innovation and entering a new era.

Times, all of these will do.”

Li Ping'an's mouth showed a bit of a smile.

As Li Dazhi and Ji Kao watched, a faint golden light floated around him, a kind of divine brilliance.

"It wasn't until a few years ago that I realized in the small courtyard of Xiqi City that what I have been looking for is not Zhou Li, but innovation and progress."

Li Ping'an's eyes glowed and he continued:

"The key point that I have never figured out before is that order is not just rules.

"It should be composed of three aspects: subject life, rules and systems, and evolution and innovation... No matter how many patches are applied, there is no perfect order. It is necessary to establish a mechanism for the order to self-evolve and progress, so that after the order collapses, it will

repair."

Li Dazhi chuckled and murmured: "No, son, have you ever been trapped by such a simple question before? Criticism and self-criticism are not enough."

"Dad, you can't say that."

Li Pingan corrected:

"Now when I think about problems, I tend to over-complicate them. After they are sufficiently complicated, I analyze them from different angles and use this method to get closer to the true meaning of the great road.

"This is the so-called mutual transformation from complexity to simplicity.

"Moreover, even if you know these principles, it still takes a lot of trouble to apply them to specific problems."

He looked at Ji Kao's soul and said slowly:

"I won't chat with you anymore and prepare to be reincarnated. For the sake of you and my brother, I will spare you the punishment of the eighteenth level of hell. However, due to your own karma, it may take several lives for you to become a human being.

"

"Fourth, Fourth, can I ask you one last question?" Ji Kao shouted tremblingly.

Li Ping'an said seriously: "Just ask."

"If I had left with you back then... No, that's not the problem."

Ji Kao's eyes looked a little more peaceful.
To be continued...