What Evil Method? This is the Righteous Dharma of the Eight Classics

[Art coefficient:☆] [Abstract coefficient:★★] [The absurd reincarnation of killing to prove the truth - when righteousness becomes the ultimate answer to evil spirits] Merit system: the self-narcotic of hypocrites The protagonist Lin Fan's Eye of Merit can be called the moral judge in the world of immortality. When he transformed the evil cultivator's Thousand Soul Banner into the Umbrella of All Peoples, it seemed that violence was used to combat violence, but in fact it exposed the essential contradiction of the merit system: the mechanism of killing evil people to accumulate merit is nothing more than quantified violence using data, simplifying moral judgment into a numbers game. This setting of "merit point = justice value" forms an absurd intertext with some of the results-based heroic values ​​in reality, and satirizes modern people's blind pursuit of "correctness." The evil method is used for good: the black humor of violent aesthetics The author packages traditional evil methods such as "qi-eating and cultivating immortals" and "soul refining" into "serious Taoist methods". This kind of identity inversion is full of deconstructive meaning. For example, when the protagonist uses the magic technique "Blood Fiend Shock Eye" to kill the perverted monk, the righteousness of the spell's name is in sharp contrast with the bloody violence of the actual effect, implying that "good and evil" are just a struggle for the right to speak. What's even more amazing is that he transforms the souls collected by evil cultivators into his own Tao soul, and transforms evil resources into righteous forces. This "waste utilization" operation is just like the recruitment and whitewashing of gray industries in contemporary society. Murderous narrative: industrialized production of violent pleasure The core conflict of the novel is simplified into the assembly line operation of "encountering evil - identifying - killing". From killing his master and robbing his wife at the beginning, to killing bandits, dignitaries, and demons in the subsequent chapters, the protagonist's targets for killing have been constantly upgraded, but he has always stayed at the superficial logic of "killing evil people." The essence of this kind of "killing to prove the truth" narrative is to use ever-expanding violence to satisfy readers' need for pleasure. It is exactly the same as the routine of "killing monsters and upgrading" in some refreshing articles, exposing the homogenization trap behind the counter-routine. Absurd World: The Immortal Projection of Magical Reality The five-turbid evil world constructed in the novel is dominated by corrupt officials and demons and monsters. This setting amplifies the dark side of real society to the extreme. When the protagonist faces the perverted monk who "takes off his pants to put out the fire", Tao's heart-breaking reaction is actually the collective aphasia of modern people when faced with moral collapse. What's even more ironic is that the "clear world" established by the protagonist through violence is just another form of power rule, implying the unattainability of absolute justice. Conclusion The novel tears apart the hypocrisy of the world of immortality with a crazy aesthetic of violence, but while deconstructing the tradition, it falls into a new cycle of routines. When the boundaries between righteous law and evil law are blurred, and when the judgment of merit and sin is in the hands of violence, the so-called "righteous road" is just another absurd reincarnation.

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Grain and grass The main plot focuses on a psychotic protagonist who cuts from the south to the north. He has a sunny personality (probably) and likes to use an ax to kill nobles and villains. There are golden fingers, no emotional scenes, and there are two female supporting roles in the atmosphere. In the early stage, the plot of Taoist Temple got better and better.

There is a kind of beauty that looks very serious but is actually very crazy. The degree of crazy is quite high. There is a sense of humor in the absurdity...