Lu Yu stood on the threshold.
He had already seen the entire scene inside the gate.
As long as he has enough ability, he can condense the fruit of "power" and completely ascend to the throne of the Great Emperor on the road of power. What kind of realm is that? Just from the 108 sticks that Lu Yi swung just now, he easily killed the 108 clones of the Great Emperor Taichu, and you can imagine it.
But, it failed.
He got stuck on the threshold.
He could not take even a small step forward. If he dared to move, his whole body would explode into blood mist, just like his two arms. Lu Yu took a deep breath, and the Buddhist rhythm surged. The exploded blood mist quickly turned into ashes, and condensed into two intact arms in the wisps of Buddhist light.
He grimaced in pain and took a deep breath.
He comprehended the profound meaning of strength, but his body, which had been tempered through thousands of battles and could be called the 'indestructible body of Buddhism', was actually unable to bear the power of the Dao Fruit... Even if it was not the absolute, pure, 100% avenue of power in this world, but only the Emperor's Seal Dao Fruit condensed with the lowest threshold share, his body could not bear it.
Whether it is the speed fruit or the space fruit, it corresponds to a certain kind of spiritual perception, a kind of analysis, a kind of understanding... If you can comprehend the principle, even if it is "a little force to move a great object", you can burst out with incredible power.
Only the 'Great Way of Power' is the foundation of the heaven and earth, the hub, the axle that runs through the two wheels of 'time and space' that make up the 'carriage of the world'. The Great Way of Power must be physical, substantial, and real!
The power of the Tao fruit must rely on a strong and incredibly powerful body!
Moreover, in the future, as Lu Yi's understanding of the avenue of power grows more and more, the authority he wields in the avenue of power will become greater and greater, so his body must become stronger and stronger.
This is very different from other great ways. Between heaven and earth, the control of other great ways, even if you are an old man in his twilight years who can fall down at the touch of a gust of wind, can control the supreme great way... For example, in the way of poison, even if you are already sick and may fall down and die at any time, this does not prevent you from having unparalleled achievements in the way of poison, and does not prevent you from spilling a drop of poison and completely poisoning all the creatures within a trillion miles into zombies...
Only the avenue of power won’t work!
There is only one way to power. If you want to obtain it, you must have a strong enough body!
Countless mysteries of power flashed through Lu Yi’s mind.
What is strength?
It's definitely not just about punching out with a punch. Knocking out two teeth of the enemy in front of you is strength!
The wind blew the dandelions, and the delicate seeds hit the transparent glass windows. This is power.
The stream flows along the narrow creek, leaping and twisting happily all the way, rushing out from the mountains, and stirring up tiny grains of sand along the way. This is power.
The hurricane roared past, uprooting large trees, blowing huge rocks down from the mountain peaks, smashing them onto the city walls and smashing the city to pieces. This is certainly also power.
The great rivers roar past, and as the floods rage, they sweep up immense amounts of mud and sand. In the gentle areas downstream, within three to five years, they wash out alluvial plains covering thousands of miles in radius. Isn't this power?
Tsunamis were emptied, meteorites fell, and man-made strong bows and crossbows were whistling and shooting arrows. The technological civilization that Lu Yi had seen in his previous life threw heavy artillery shells dozens or hundreds of miles away. Amidst the loud bangs, houses were blown to pieces. This was of course even more of a power!
Then, the sun, moon, and stars are running rapidly in the void. Stars with diameters of hundreds, thousands , tens of thousands, or even larger are rushing through the void at speeds of tens of thousands of miles... This raises the dimension of vision to huge galaxies containing hundreds of billions of stars. These galaxies are moving in the void at an even more astonishing speed...
One day, in an unpredictable spacetime and dimension, two stars collided with each other, a star collided with a black hole, two huge galaxies came into close physical contact, and even two complete universes and even more dimensional worlds collided...
This is all power!
These are all supreme, magnificent and infinite powers!
Contained within it is the most subtle, yet the most powerful force...and if you want to master the mysteries of these subtle, powerful, and indescribable forces, you must bear this power!
With Lu Yu’s current physique, he can withstand the huge force of dozens, hundreds, or even tens of thousands of stars impacting in the Supreme Taichu Heaven… However, if two star fields in the Supreme Taichu Heaven collide with each other, he will be a little overwhelmed… If two star fields in the Supreme Taichu Heaven collide, this force will be enough to seriously injure him… If it is a disaster caused by the explosion of a celestial body of a larger dimension, this force will be enough to destroy him!
Then, the avenue of power runs through the entire Supreme Taichu Heaven.
This supreme power, if it drives the entire Supreme Taichu Heaven, would be like a bullet, and would have a head-on impact with another world of the same dimension and size... This power is enough to easily wipe out all traces of Lu Yi's existence in the blink of an eye!
"This is power!" Lu Yi gasped heavily.
In the Nalanda Buddha Fruit, all kinds of supreme golden body magical powers of Buddhism, and many supreme Buddhist body-tempering techniques kept flashing in his mind... However, the Taichu Huntong Pearl emitted a dark light that illuminated his soul. At this moment, Lu Yi's soul was clear. He quickly calculated that even if the supreme golden body magical power in the Nalanda Buddha Fruit was cultivated to the extreme and to the state of great perfection, it would not be able to bear the entire power of the Supreme Taichu Heaven.
Although the fruit of Nalanda Buddha is extremely miraculous, it also has its innate threshold limits.
In other words, the Buddhist sage who founded the Nalanda Buddha Fruit, that incredible great power, did not follow the path of pure power with an indestructible golden body... The upper limit of the golden body path he contained in the Nalanda Buddha Fruit was already very high compared to the current Lu Yu... But for the future Lu Yu, it was not high enough!
"It's a problem, but not a big one!" In Lu Yi's mind, countless clear and transparent thoughts rose up, countless thoughts rose and fell, and disappeared. He gathered 90% of his soul power in his mind, and under the illumination of the Taichu Huntong Pearl, he began to calculate and combine these supreme Buddhist golden body magical powers, comprehend the supreme body tempering skills, and wanted to summarize a supreme golden body method to carry the power that he had seen but could not bear now!
The image of the three-eyed deity, the image of the three-eyed deity holding two Feng Shui dragons, once again slowly appeared in Lu Yi's soul dimension.
Countless stars twinkled around the Three-Eyed God-Man Diagram, and the light of each star was dim. However, as the stars moved quietly, Lu Yi noticed that their luster and their rhyme echoed with the 480 million ancient stars above the void.
From the core of the three-eyed god-man picture, a very ancient and extremely dilapidated trace, which seemed like it could be reduced to ashes at any time, flowed out intermittently.
'Infinite Stars Cast the Beginning'... Lu Yi muttered this name. The whole body of the Three-Eyed God-Man Picture also lit up with extremely fine light and shadows from the acupoints. The little flickering and swaying stars in the outside world also released strands of extremely fine starlight, which were injected into these acupoints and shadows. As a result, an extremely majestic and huge wave of blood and qi surged out from the Three-Eyed God-Man Picture.
Lu Yu only felt waves of toothache!
He subconsciously glanced at Yin Yuan above the imperial city - this skill, the strange vision surging on the body of the three-eyed divine man, and the image when Master Langyue came to make trouble a few days ago, and Yin Yuan suddenly gained the protection of 480 million ancient stars, with countless starlight breaking through the air and injecting into his body were so similar!
What's the reason for this?
Lu Yi had some guesses in his mind, but he couldn't understand them clearly for a while.
There was already a commotion below. As Lu Yi killed the 108 clones of the Great Emperor Taichu, and as the space-time rift opened by the Great Emperor Taichu in the sky above Haojing was forcefully smoothed out by Lu Yi, hundreds of millions of mutated citizens in Haojing stopped their frantic attacks at the same time, tilted their heads, squinted their eyes, rolled their eyes, and looked at Lu Yi with a giggle.
They laughed in unison and said, "Okay, okay, okay, you win this round... Then what? Then what?"
These mutated citizens spread their hands at the same time, posing an attitude of "I am at your mercy, ready to be slaughtered", laughing hysterically: "So, what's next? What's next?"
Lu Yi remained silent.
So many of them have exploded in the imperial city's defense formation, but there are still hundreds of millions of the remaining mutated Taichu Emperor clones. Their cultivation ranges from heavenly generals to great heavenly monarchs. With Lu Yi's current strength, a flick of his finger is enough to wipe them all out!
But imagine that these people were originally citizens of Haojing, and they were all good people.
They had no original sin, but were dragged into this turmoil and used as tools by the Great Emperor Taichu... If they were all killed, it would be too unfair to their Primarch... But if they were not killed, then how would it end?
They have undergone complete changes from their bodies to their souls.
At least with the Dao that Lu Yi mastered, the methods he comprehended, and the various means he understood, he was unable to transform them back into the original citizens of Haojing!
They were not moving at the moment and looked harmless.
But as long as a group of great emperors emerge, they can immediately transform into an army with astonishing lethality. You never know when they will come to you hard...
Is it possible that there will be an emperor-level existence among them?
Of course, it could happen at any time.
Lu Yi looked at Yin Yuan.
Yin Yuan looked at Lu Yi with a bit of pity. Although he was the Emperor Shen Yin, and although he had been the emperor for many years in the lower world, to be honest, when it came to the four words "decisiveness in killing and fighting", Yin Yuan still lacked a bit. As an emperor, sometimes he was too soft-hearted...
White Snake, who was hugging Yin Yuan's arm tightly, smiled and said, "Why is your majesty worried? This is not your majesty's fault... It was Taichu who had bad thoughts about my Shen Yin. All the causes were caused by him, and all the consequences will naturally be destroyed by him... If your majesty can't bear to do it, then just send them back to heaven."
White Snake shook her head and sighed, "I never thought that he would come up with such a heartless method in these years... When did he infect these people?"
"But let's send them back. If we slaughter these hundreds of millions of people, it would be too cruel, and we can't bear it. Sending them back, as far as the Heavenly Court is concerned, they don't lack this amount of manpower... but it will take some time for us to consider."
Lu Yi looked up at the sky and saw a large number of motionless warships from the Heavenly Court.
On the bows of many flagships were great generals from heaven. They were all wearing gleaming armor and holding shining weapons, but they tried their best to restrain their aura and presence, for fear that they would be discovered by Lu Yi and Bai Niangzi.
In fact, the main force of the Taichu Emperor who invaded this area, 108 emperor-level clones were all killed by Lu Yi in one blow... Although they didn't understand why Lu Yi's two arms exploded into blood mist just now, these generals of the Heavenly Court knew very well that they were definitely not Lu Yi's opponents.
Lu Yi bowed to them and said, "Did you hear what my sister-in-law said? Thank you all for sending these people back to heaven, back to the Great Emperor Taichu... Just tell them that I, Shen Yin, will definitely repay you for what happened today in the future!"
After a moment's silence, Lu Yi shook his head gently: "I'll tell your emperor that if he has any plans or plots against my Divine Origin, he should just come after us... Why would he attack the people under his rule?"
Glancing at the mutated citizens who were grinning and rolling their eyes at Lu Yi in the same posture, Lu Yi said softly, "I will remember what happened today... Next time, if there is a next time, if the Great Emperor Taichu is still so filthy as to use my people as a means... then, your Tianzhou Continent is said to have vast land, rich products, and a fertile land with trillions of people!"
"As for killing, Lu Yu has now comprehended the Dao of Speed ​​and condensed the Dao Fruit of Space. I think his killing speed won't be slower than his, right?"
The generals of Heaven who stood stiffly at the bow of the flagship, not daring to move, had cold sweat streaming down their foreheads.
Speed ​​Dao fruit!
Space Dao Fruit!
These are things that can kill people... Speed ​​Dao Fruit, everything can be done quickly, killing people will naturally not be slow! And what does Space Dao Fruit mean? Space Dao Fruit means that the probability of trapping Lu Yu, who is already almost unkillable, and gathering superior forces to encircle and annihilate him in the future is very small!
Only he kills people.
Who can kill him?
Today, Emperor Taichu killed all the people in Haojing.
In the future, when Lu Fu wants to take revenge, he will turn his blade directly to the Tianzhou Continent, where the families and relatives of countless civil and military officials of the Heavenly Court live... Haha, can those people in the Tianzhou Continent withstand Lu Fu's massacre?
For a moment, many of the generals of Heaven who were present, as well as those who were qualified to settle their families on the Tianzhou continent, all felt resentment towards the Great Emperor Taichu for no reason for the first time since the establishment of Heaven - How could you, the Great Emperor of Heaven, do such a dirty thing?
Wouldn't it be better for you to lead the Heavenly Court fleet to attack Shen Yin in an upright manner?
Why do you have to use such a method that is almost demonic?
Uh, you said that the star gates around the Haojing Continent were destroyed by Lu Yi. With the normal sailing speed of the Heavenly Court fleet, it would be impossible to get close to the Haojing Continent without a thousand or eight hundred years... This, this, this...
"Go, go!" Lu Yi looked at the Heavenly Army that had completely lost their fighting spirit, and said in a deep voice: "Let these people board the ship... Then, I will send you a way, that is, directly send you to the nearest star gate, and then you can return to Heaven by yourself, is that okay?"
The highest-ranking commander of the Five Armies present laughed dryly, bowed to Lu Yi, and was about to say something when a burst of blood suddenly appeared in the void!
The millions of "non-heavenly beings" lurking in Haojing saw that Lu Yi had taken control of the situation and that the Heavenly Army had lost their will to fight. These non-heavenly beings laughed softly and gracefully like silver bells, with blood surging in their bodies. Evil auras that contained all the seven emotions and six desires and endless resentment spread in all directions in an instant.
At this time in Haojing, due to the means of Emperor Taichu, all the people in the city were forcibly transformed into his clones.
Before that, hundreds of millions of mutant citizens had been completely killed by the imperial city's defense formation and restrictions under the strong drive of the Great Emperor Taichu. The death of these hundreds of millions of mutant citizens directly turned into a source of power for the Feitians, giving the millions of Feitians present and Bai Zun hiding behind them a terrifying boost.
Now, these non-heavenly beings have completely unleashed their power.
Haojing suddenly turned into a sea of ​​blood... Evil and ominous blood light rose from all directions. Every brick, every roof tile, every broken beam seemed to be soaked in blood, emitting a sticky smell.
In the city of Haojing, many palaces and countless mansions were razed to the ground in the previous chaos, turning into a mess of ruins. However, as the blood-colored aura emerged, wisps of sticky blood continued to rise, and they quickly outlined the foundation, floor tiles, rockery, water, houses and pavilions. These evil forces of Feitian rebuilt all the destroyed buildings on the ruins according to the original blueprint in a breath.
All the new buildings were blood-red. Distorted and blurred faces flashed in every brick and every broken tile. All kinds of laughter, crying, complaints and curses came from all directions like countless spring silkworms gnawing on mulberry leaves.
With these strange, tiny noises, many of the heavenly soldiers and generals who were standing still on the warships turned pale and fell to the ground with a thud. Blood quickly flowed out of their pores, and in just a few breaths, many of the heavenly soldiers and generals were left with only a soft human skin. A breeze blew from nowhere, carrying a biting chill through these human skins, and then red human skin lanterns rose into the sky, or turned into red wedding dresses.
Lu Yu's pupils shrank.
He said in a cold voice: "Master Sanzang, what are you trying to do? This is Shen Yin territory..."
Monk Sanzang did not reply.
Bai Zun's sweet voice rang out from the mouths of those non-heavenly beings: "This is the land of sin... Master Fahai, don't you feel it? Every inch of land here is soaked with blood and tears, and stained with blood... This blood, these sins, must be repaid with their lives, their souls, their luck, and everything they have!"
As Bai Zun laughed, large numbers of heavenly soldiers and generals fell down again.
Those warships of the Heavenly Court have already raised their defensive formations. These formations and prohibitions have amazing defensive power, and can even withstand the massive bombardment of great Heavenly Lord-level masters without any damage. However, facing these bizarre and strange attack methods from non-Heavenly realms, they are like bubble phantoms and fail to exert any defensive effect.
Those mutated citizens who remained in a strange state suddenly roared in unison.
"How dare you!" This is when Emperor Taichu finally turned his attention over again... But after Lu Yi smoothed out the space-time rift, it was obvious that it would not be so easy for Emperor Taichu to cross such a long distance and remotely control these mutated clones of the citizens.
The movements, reactions, and speaking speeds of these mutated clones of the city's citizens all seemed a little sluggish.
Lu Yu thought to himself, these guys, maybe they are not even clones, but a kind of mutated flesh and blood puppets? However, this is even more terrifying... This kind of evil magic, in the hands of the Taichu Emperor who controls the power of the ancient stars, is a weapon of amazing lethality!
"Of course we are very courageous..." Those non-heavenly beings, whether they were lanterns, incense burners, or beauties in wedding dresses, all laughed happily, "Wrong, wrong, you have diverted the topic... We don't have the courage, hehe, we don't have any internal organs, how can we have the courage!"
The laughter continued, and the heavenly soldiers and generals on the ship continued to fall.
On the ground, the mutated citizens all flew into the air, bringing up gusts of evil wind that rushed straight towards the non-sky creatures floating in the air.
The non-tians smiled.
They sang soft and sweet songs, and as they waved their hands, the bodies of the mutated citizens burst open like blood-red roses. The blood plasma in their bodies was instantly infected by the strange power, and the black breath that was clearly visible to the naked eye splashed down from the air in large pieces.
I don't know what these Feitians are capable of. Even if the person is extremely strong, can the plasma in a living person fill up half a water tank? However, when the plasma of the mutated citizens killed by them was sprayed, the blood of each person was comparable to a pond of an acre in size!
Large pieces of plasma spewing black gas fell from the sky and sprayed heavily on the ground.
Blood fell on the buildings that were formed by blood light, and blood-colored flowers blossomed one after another. Countless wriggling blood-colored roots penetrated deeply into the ground, one foot... one zhang... one mile...
Wherever the dense blood-red roots passed, the huge earth vein system that Lu Yi had painstakingly pieced together by moving many stars and floating continents was infected by countless blood-red roots. The rich spiritual power of heaven and earth was dyed a light blood color, and as the earth veins rushed and flowed, the earth veins of the Haojing continent were gradually covered with a layer of blood light.
As the earth veins flowed, wherever they passed, the soil and mountains on the ground gradually emitted a faint smell of blood.
The crops in the fields, the grass in the pastures, the trees, flowers and plants in the mountains and forests, all exude a bloody smell.
Lu Fei was angry.
Yinyuan was furious.
White Snake raised her eyebrows and her eyes showed murderous intent.
The white turtle had already jumped out. She tore off her red makeup and jumped up and down in the air, cursing loudly - in her words, she also implicated a shameless woman who had stolen her man.
Among the many ministers of Shen Yin, only Yu Changle and his group of godsons and grandsons, those former eunuchs who served as palace guards, looked at the devastated heaven and earth with grief, but they were helpless and didn't know what to do - their strength, their methods, were simply unable to cope with these weird and terrifying non-heavenly creatures!
And the other ministers of Shen Yin.
No matter whether it was the Linghu clan, the Dugu clan, or even the Nangong clan, the Beimen clan, or the wedding processions from other powerful families, all of them showed a subtle smile of gloating and standing idly by.
What a joy it is to see this extremely sudden, extremely powerful force that sits on their heads being humiliated... After all, the territory that is being trampled upon is not their own, so they are happy to watch the fun!
As for Yinyuan and them being in-laws or something like that...
Hehe, it's just that a few of their own daughters married Yinyuan... For them, daughters of the same family are as many as they want. Are they rare? Are they precious? Seeing Yinyuan in trouble is a real pleasure!
A clear rebuke was heard at the top of Shen Yin Zu Mountain.
Three faint sword beams swept across... cutting the heart, cutting the will, cutting the thoughts... cutting the soul, cutting the body, cutting the cause and effect... The sword beams of Qingyou and the other two women were like a clear rain falling from the sky. One after another, the Feitian let out sharp roars, and were blasted and chopped into pieces by the sword beams, but then put back into shape!
The swords of Qingyou and the other two girls were extremely powerful, and specialized in targeting the mind, soul, thoughts, and the cause and effect of sin. However, for these non-heavenly creatures, their killing power was reduced by more than 90%... Their swords could not cut through these weird things!
But their swords touched the mysterious line of cause and effect.
There was a bright Buddha light flashing in Lu Yi's eyes. He locked onto the causal connections of several of the most powerful non-celestial beings. He followed the vague causal line, his gaze following the flow upward, passing through the dimensional diaphragm attached to the spatial dimensions of the Supreme Taichu Heaven, crossing an extremely long distance, and finally landing on a hill somewhere, where he stood on the top of the hill, with a battlefield of one million people below him.
Found it!
So, Lu Yi arrived!
Space, for Lu Yi at this moment, space is no longer an obstacle.
The speed fruit condensed by Lu Wu made Lu Wu's ability to distort space and cross space with an "efficiency" so amazing that Monk Sanzang and Bai Zun standing behind him were completely unable to react.
Lu Yi appeared out of thin air behind Monk Sanzang. Monk Sanzang and Bai Zun were still using their magical powers, looking at the sky above Haojing City with a smile, watching the disaster on the Haojing continent.
They did not, nor could they, let alone discover in time that Lu Yu had actually followed the cause and effect between them, traveled through time and space, and appeared directly behind them - from this point of view, Lu Yu had the potential to become the world's number one assassin!
A violent roar was heard from the Tianlong Zen Staff, and Lu Yi swung the Tianlong Zen Staff.
All 480 million acupoints in the body flickered simultaneously.
In the void, outside the four gates of the Heavenly Palace, the star array formed by 480 million ancient stars vibrated together. Strands of extremely fine starlight, regardless of the control of the Star Flag in the hands of the Great Emperor Taichu, gushed out from the ancient stars, and in an instant they crossed an extremely long distance and merged into every acupoint of Lu Yi.
Strands of starlight enter the body.
In his mind, countless thoughts were constantly arising and disappearing. All the golden body magical powers and all the Buddhist body-tempering techniques in the Buddha Fruit were transformed into nutrients and integrated into the strange Infinite Stars Casting Taichu Method that originated from the core of the Three-Eyed God-Man Diagram...
The innumerable stars forged the beginning, which is the foundation.
All Buddhist techniques and golden body supernatural powers are seeds.
The rich and fertile earth has sown strong and powerful seeds... What kind of towering trees will be born, what kind of amazing divine fruits will be produced... No one knows!
The Taichu Huntong Pearl burst out with a faint light that was ten thousand times stronger than before, and infinite ingenuity and limitless imagination surged, turning into extremely rare nutrients, injected into Lu Yi's body, and integrated into his soul, prompting the rapid fusion of the Infinite Stars Casting Taichu and the Buddhist Golden Body technique.
At the source of the long river of time and space in the Supreme Taichu Heaven, the great being sitting cross-legged on the long river quietly opened his eyes.
Countless years ago, the fallen and extinct Maitreya was awakened.
He quietly stretched out a finger and slowly pointed it at a certain place downstream of the river.
The Taichu Huntong Pearl was burning like a small sun, and Lu Yi's whole body was infected and enveloped by the faint light emitted by the Taichu Huntong Pearl... He, in the instant that Maitreya snapped his fingers, completely disappeared from the long river of time. The Taichu Huntong Pearl confused all his causes and effects, and wiped out all his information and all traces...
Countless starlight is injected into the body.
Lu Yi's physical strength was skyrocketing.
What level of physical strength has been reached? It is no longer possible to measure the huge strength of Lu Yi's arms at this moment with the current "claw" and "scale" system formulated by the Supreme Taichutian!
He swung the Tianlong Zen Staff and hit Monk Sanzang on the back of the head with it!
With the blessing of the speed fruit, the speed of this staff reached its extreme.
With the blessing of the Space Dao Fruit, the distance between the stick and the back of Monk Sanzang's head disappeared directly.
At that fatal moment, Monk Sanzang's bald head turned into a crystal clear glass sphere, and became completely transparent... In his skull, above the dark golden brain, a golden lotus could be seen floating, and on the lotus platform, a Buddha was lying on his side, with a sense of emptiness and death all over his body.
The Tianlong Zen Staff touched the back of Monk Sanzang's head.
On the golden lotus, the Buddha, who had been in silence for countless years, quietly stretched out his hands. On his shriveled face, two dry eyes opened, and two lines of sticky tears of blood flowed down.
The next moment, Monk Sanzang appeared a hundred feet away, leaving the already deceased body of the Buddha in its place.
The Tianlong Zen Staff made a loud sound, and countless cracks appeared on Lu Yi's arms. In the splashing blood, this blow completely shattered the silent Buddha. His body had long been shriveled like fired pottery, and countless fragments with wisps of smoke and dust splashed in all directions, and there was no possibility of any piecing it together...
Monk Sanzang turned around suddenly, looking in shock and anger at Lu Yi, whose whole body was burning with invisible flames of power.
"Fahai!"
The monk Sanzang wailed in a hoarse voice, like a cuckoo crying blood, filled with endless compassion and indignation.