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If the Western Daoist Order truly resolved to abolish blood sacrifice, it could be done, but the cost would be too high.
In short, it was not worth it.
Qi Xuansu could not help but recall the past. He had killed Wan Xiuwu and imprisoned Yue Liuli back then, when he was young and naive, still wrestling with the difference between procedural justice and substantive justice.
As his status rose and his experience broadened, his perspective gradually changed as well.
Law was related to justice, but it could not fully represent it.
If a law aligned with the common consensus, then to some extent, it was just and even carried a sense of sanctity that extended to those who uphold it. But if a law contradicted that consensus, then it was not considered just, let alone sacred.
At its core, law was a tool to safeguard the interests of the ruling class. One could say its function was to define what justice was, but whose justice? If it aligned with the interests of the majority, then it was the justice of the majorit...
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