Cosmic Trading System

"It's Lin Yun! Lin Yun has returned! Lin Yun's strength is so formidable!"

"These are the very cultivators from the Immortal World and the Heavenly Realm who have bullied and harmed our people on Earth, and now, at last, they are being punished!"

"They are all eighth-level cultivators, yet they stand no chance against a mere thought from Lin Yun!"

"Fantastic! Lin Yun did an amazing job!"

"The Lord of Immortal Origin? Has Lin Yun become the Lord of Immortal Origin already?"

Many Earth dwellers shouted excitedly, some hugged each other while others spread the news.

One person told ten, ten told a hundred, and soon, almost every Earthling knew about it, except for a few special cases.

It was practically a national celebration.

Meanwhile, all cultivators from the Immortal Origin Holy Land on Earth were scared out of their wits. At this moment, Lin Yun's voice on Earth was no longer speaking in succession but in overlapping sentences.

With every moment, the crimes and sentences of many cultivators from the Immortal Origin Holy Land were announced, and many of them were punished, most with the penalty of death.

One after another, the cultivators of the Immortal Origin Holy Land, no matter where they were or what they were doing, exploded into a mist of blood, without exception.

They were terrified that Lin Yun would mention their names.

Perhaps, it was at this moment that they truly understood what it felt like to be completely helpless and at the mercy of another.

But it was too late for regrets.

Some cultivators of the Immortal Origin Holy Land went mad under these circumstances, trying to cause destruction on Earth and wanting to drag many humans down with them in death, but without exception, they failed to do so.

Before they could accomplish their goals, they were pre-emptively sentenced to death, and the verdict resonated in the sky.

The remaining cultivators from the Immortal Origin Holy Land dared not make any moves, only waiting in fear and despair. They could only hope that their crimes were not so severe that they would be sentenced to death.

Finally, after Lin Yun announced the execution of several hundred Immortal Origin Holy Land cultivators, the subsequent roll calls were no longer death sentences but rather decrees to strip cultivation. Initially, it was complete stripping of cultivation, and later on, it became partial stripping.

This change allowed the remaining cultivators on Earth from the Immortal Origin Holy Land and those top figures from various powers kneeling before Lin Yun to breathe a sigh of relief.

Just moments ago, they were truly frightened.

When Lin Yun was in the Immortal Origin World, they had seen him. Back then, Lin Yun was comforting the cultivators who were startled by the tremors in the Immortal Origin World. Lin Yun was very amicable at that time.

Perhaps, it was because of Lin Yun's amicability that some powerful cultivators didn't take him seriously.

There were even rumors that Lin Yun, being new to his position as the Lord of Immortal Origin and seemingly fragile due to his youth, didn't dare to take any significant actions against the members of the Immortal Origin Holy Land to stabilize his position.

They were just higher-ups of minor sects and naturally did not dare to compare themselves with those top cultivators with powerful backers. Still, influenced by such talk and despite being cautious of Lin Yun's power, their wariness was always somewhat inadequate.

However, moments ago, they realized that Lin Yun was very decisive when it came to killing and had no scruples about them being from the Immortal Origin Holy Land.

One by one, the cultivators of the Immortal Origin Holy Land were named and one by one they fell.

There were not many, but not a few either.

Especially this one-by-one naming and killing atmosphere made it easy for fear to take root in people's hearts.

They were extremely afraid.

Frightened that Lin Yun would eventually call out their names, for then they too would have absolutely no chance to resist.

Earlier, some of those named cultivators were very resentful that these higher-ups of their sects did not speak up for them, but they were unaware that these leaders were also in dire straits.

Perhaps, they knew, but in their dying moments, they were desperate to cling to any hope. Perhaps, all humans are selfish; they didn't want to acknowledge the harm their demands would cause their sect leaders, fixated only on scraping together a slim chance for survival.

Thankfully, Lin Yun's naming and execution finally came to an end.

There should be no more executions thereafter.

As the sentences of complete cultivation stripping ended one by one, they sighed with relief once more.

According to the pattern of naming by Lin Yun, even if they were to be punished, he estimated that at worst a part of their cultivation would be abolished. This way, they could at least preserve their lives and maintain some cultivation, affording them the opportunity to start anew.

Using the method of consecutive naming, Lin Yun needed only about an hour to announce the crimes and punishments of thousands of cultivators from the Immortal Origin Holy Land on Earth.

"The powers of India on Earth… acting as the tiger's accomplice, conducting affairs on behalf of the Immortal Origin Holy Land's cultivators, they directly killed over one hundred thousand humans of Earth, indirectly causing the deaths of several hundreds of thousands, now sentencing… death penalty…"

The voice of Lin Yun once again resonated across the Earth.

It was another death sentence—

This time, the number of individuals sentenced reached as many as ten.

Actually, in many wars of this world, the most detestable are not the enemies, but one's own people who commit evil. Because of understanding, because of familiarity, for various reasons, when one harms their own, it is truly vicious.

Previously, that eighth-level cultivator surnamed Mo and a series of powerful cultivators of the eighth and ninth level, as well as those fifth and sixth level cultivators who oppressed Lin White— their strength made it easy to kill some humans of Earth.

However, during their decade or so on Earth, they only managed to kill around a thousand people, which, given their power, was actually not that many.

Lin Yun had already pronounced the crimes of those cultivators from the Immortal Origin Holy Land. Perhaps many did not notice, or maybe some did, that among them, those who had killed hundreds of humans on Earth, he sentenced to death, yet for those who had killed thousands, or even tens of thousands, he did not decree the death penalty.

If among those killed or oppressed by the cultivators surnamed Mo there hadn't been many employees of Qingyun Company, or friends like Lin White who were close to them, he would not have sentenced them to death.

Yes, the standard by which Lin Yun judged crimes was actually not fair.

It was influenced by his biases.

The harm caused by those cultivators from the Immortal Origin Holy Land on Earth, as long as it involved Qingyun Company, was punished more severely. As long as it did not involve Qingyun Company, he was not overly strict.

After all, although he was born on Earth, he was not particularly close to all humans there.

He was still the Lord of Immortal Origin. Should he not speak for the cultivators of the Immortal Origin World?

Although he had traveled through the universe for only about a decade, what he had witnessed was not insignificant.

He knew that in this world, the strong are revered.

He knew that in this world, being weak is truly a sin.

If you are weak, if your group is weak, you might suffer calamities and hardships for no reason at all, with no one to speak up for you.

He knew that in this world, there really is no absolute fairness.

Even including himself — when he encountered enemies in the universe, fighting with some, his actions inadvertently caused the deaths of many beings, including human lives.

If he were to truly pursue absolute fairness, would he not have to trade his life for those human lives?

Thus, unless it was a case of deliberate torture, humiliation, and excessive injury, he did not sentence them to death, and even once, a seventh-level cultivator from the Immortal Origin Holy Land was chased by an eighth-level cultivator, resulting in tens of thousands of deaths, but usually, they treated the humans of Earth well.

Because that battle did not involve employees of Qingyun Company, Lin Yun did not sentence them to death, nor did he abolish all of their cultivation, merely a small portion of it.

Fair?

If some humans on Earth felt it was unfair, they could enforce what they deemed as fair by their own strength, as long as it didn't touch upon Lin Yun's interests, rules, or bottom lines, Lin Yun would not overly control them.

If their strength exceeded his, then Lin Yun had nothing to say.

Death penalty?

Those high-ranking members of various major sects kneeling before Lin Yun, upon hearing the mention of death penalty again in his words, could not help but feel shocked.

The list of those sentenced to the death penalty wasn't finished?

But quickly, they realized that Lin Yun was no longer talking about the cultivators from the Immortal Origin Holy Land but punishing the humans of Earth, and Lin Yun was even going to punish Earth's humans…

While they were shocked, they also felt uneasy.

The sentencing of the cultivators from the Immortal Origin Holy Land on the lower realms was complete, the cultivators of the Immortal Origin World had not been sentenced yet, and now the sentencing of the Earth's humans had begun. Would Lin Yun start sentencing the cultivators of the Immortal Origin World after completing the sentencing of Earth's humans?

And then, would there be more death penalties?