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"How does it feel?" asked Xuanyuan the Yellow Emperor.
"Very oppressive."
Li Ping'an sighed, his entire body relaxed as he sat on the bed and yawned.
"Now I understand why the senior Tianli was reluctant to kill those parasites."
"If you had to do it over again, would you still cook them?"
"Cook them, with an even bigger fire."
Li Ping'an said indifferently:
"Previously, when I looked through the war reports stored by the East Alliance, seeing the numbers of dead and injured didn't cause much of a ripple in me.
"At most, I would sigh at the extravagance of using True Immortals as soldiers, lamenting how many people couldn't become Loose Cultivators, how many Loose Cultivators couldn't become Immortals.
"Through today's battle, however, I suddenly grasped the meaning behind those numbers.
"That the Human Race has managed to have such a prosperous era is truly not easy."
"This was a good lesson."
Xuanyuan the Yellow Emperor said with a smile: