Look across the world, and more than ninety percent of humanity's suffering is often caused by less than ten percent of its people. These people are usually called the powerful.
The so-called powerful are those capable of bringing suffering to the world.
Beneath Mount Futu in the Northern Desert, with countless cultivators' flying swords pointed at him, Shang Qingque spoke defiantly just before being executed:
Let there be no peaks beneath heaven, and let the Nine Provinces lie level.
Let the Eight Wastelands never age, and let the annals of history turn to ash.
It is not that I have wronged the world. It is the world that is guilty!
I, Shang, have no desire to bring harm to all living things. I only wish to bring suffering to the powerful.
