Beginning to practice immortality as a refugee

Chapter 609 Hidden dangers
How would a demon emperor who had time to manage his territory manage it?
Can the territory still be a paradise for humans as it was before?

You know, the premise of this paradise is that the Demon Emperor doesn't care about anything, and this place has almost become a private reserve for the human race.

During these decades.

All matters within the territory, big or small, are decided by the humans themselves.

The tragedy of humans becoming two-legged sheep will never happen again.

In addition to teaching them martial arts, Master Shang Tianti also established laws and taught them knowledge of writing and weights and measures.

The human territory was thriving, the population had increased several times, martial arts masters emerged in large numbers, and there were hundreds of monks.

More and more human beings have awakened. They are not born inferior. Human beings are also a race with dignity.

The territory seems to be prosperous and thriving.

However, Shang Ling'er and other disciples knew better that all this prosperity was based on the premise that the Demon King continued to rule without caring about anything and was obsessed with cultivation.

Now, Lord Demon King has broken through to become the Divine Demon Emperor.

If he suddenly wanted to take charge of something, suddenly remembered to save his own people, and suddenly brought in thousands of monsters from outside.

If the prosperous territory now collapses like a castle built on the beach, can it still maintain its former prosperity?
Therefore, these disciples were both happy and worried.

Some of the disciples thought further: the lord opposite is a monster, why are we cheering for him?
The stronger his cultivation becomes, the worse the situation of our human race will be, right?
In the most ideal situation, the Green Ape would always be in the Nascent Soul stage and maintain this fragile balance with the Three Demon Kings.

Therefore, when these disciples saw Lu Ye's demon body, they had complicated expressions and mixed feelings.

When Lu Ye was going through the tribulation, they cheered and felt proud of it.

After successfully overcoming the tribulation and facing the Demon Emperor, they were all restrained and afraid, not daring to utter a word.

Lu Ye knew what they were worried about, so he waved his hand and told them to go.

The disciples retreated hastily as if they had been pardoned.

Monk Lu Ye and Tianti looked at each other, without saying anything, turned around and flew back to the cave.

Return to the cave.

There was a formation around to block outside detection, and Lu Ye transformed back into his human form.

“Brother Lu, you really did it!”

Shang Tianti was very excited, "As you said, you really have achieved the state of a god!"

Lu Ye laughed.

He simply explained that he was still in the period of gathering strength, but he didn't expect that he suddenly felt something and the heavenly calamity had already arrived.

He also told his guess that it was because Shang Ling'er, as the first local human cultivator to break through the foundation-building stage, brought him extra merit, which enabled him to break through to the divine transformation stage ahead of time.

“Brother Shang,” Lu Ye wanted to pat Shang Tianti’s shoulder when he saw him, it had become a habit, “I will teach you the Bodhisattva Sutra of Merit, it will be very useful!”

“The most difficult level of the Heavenly Demon when overcoming the tribulation in the past was almost broken through in one blow!”

"That infinite merit is the nemesis of the demons."

“You must keep practicing!”

Shang Tianti nodded and said that he had already started to learn the Merit Bodhisattva Sutra and would definitely choose it as his main practice in the future.

Now his shattered foundation has been restored, and he has been honing his skills in the Golden Elixir Great Perfection realm for more than ten years. He has a premonition that in a few years, it will be time for him to break through to the Nascent Soul realm and achieve minor immortality.

Lu Ye’s achievement of incarnation has set an example for him, so Shang Tianti is naturally unwilling to fall behind.

The two encouraged each other.

Lu Ye did not forget to instruct Shang Tianti to lead a team of people to hand over the relevant villages to the Three Demon Kings, incorporate them into the territory, and relocate the boundary stakes.

Shang Tianti nodded and said that he would definitely handle the matter properly.

For decades, Lu Ye often stayed in seclusion. As representatives of the territory, Shang Tianti and his first clan member were responsible for showing up in public. They had dealt with many Jindan monsters in the territories of the Three Demon Kings and had become very familiar with them.

“Brother Lu,” Shang Tianti changed the subject, “It’s a pity that we still have to wear the skin of a demon race tiger and cannot openly raise the banner of the human race!”

"Did you see it today? Those disciples looked at you with complicated eyes."

"Even Shang Ling'er doesn't know that the Demon King in front of them is actually the elder who taught them the skills that they have been thinking about all the time."

“Brother Lu, you have been wronged. You have paid so much, but you can only appear in front of the world wearing a demon vest.”

"Today I saw you transcending the tribulation in the sky above the Hundred Thousand Mountains, and I thought how great it would be if you appeared as a human instead of a demon, and made our race proud."

“Wouldn’t the three demon emperors be scared to death?”

"Unfortunately, your identity as a demon is a top secret. Only the two of us know it and we cannot reveal it to anyone else."

"If all the disciples knew that it was our race that was transcending the tribulation in the sky, how happy would they be?"

Lu Ye laughed.

"They are so thoughtful!"

"We are carrying the demon flag to fight against the demon tribe."

"The three generations of Lingyun Sect disciples who have been painstakingly trained for decades can't really be trained as slaves for the demon race, right?"

"If you want them to be proud of the human race, then practice hard and break through to the Nascent Soul stage as soon as possible!"

"Let them know that the limit of our human cultivators is far from the golden elixir."

Lu Ye paused and continued.

"In their eyes, I, the Demon King, don't care about anything. I'm just lucky to have a good lord."

“But as long as they practice deeply, they will find that they are practicing the authentic human cultivation method!”

"It is simply not comparable to the weird and inferior demon clan techniques practiced by those clansmen."

"The script, rune, formation and skills they practiced are all inherited from the human race."

"I was born on a different path from those clans."

"Although our territory is small, our population is only a few tens of thousands."

"But even though the sparrow is small, it has all the organs."

"Except for the fact that we cannot force the growth of cultivation techniques, we have already taught you everything else that we can."

“All that remains is to continue studying.”

"But the seeds have already been planted. It is impossible for them to grow into demonic trees or flowers in the future."

"As long as the right opportunity comes, this group of monks will be able to walk out of the Shiwan Mountains and spread this spark of enlightenment throughout the earth."

"Brother Shang, isn't this exactly what you and I planned?"

"Plant the rice seedlings, water them, raise them, and then watch them grow quietly."

“Maybe we will experience natural disasters like thunder and lightning, but as long as we don’t lose everything, the flame of our human race will be passed on.”

"Even if this piece of land is completely barren, we can farm another piece of land!"

“This is the way of you and me!”

"We are the pioneers who plant trees, and we hope that our descendants will reap abundant fruits."

"Brother Shang, I'm going to be the first to reach the state of transformation, you have to catch up!"

"Farming is too tiring. I can't handle it by myself!"

Shang Tianti bowed to the ground.

"I am honored to be Brother Lu's deputy. How dare I not do my best?"

"Just wait, I will succeed in advancing to the Nascent Soul stage within a few years!"

Because Lu Ye had been in seclusion in recent years, this was the first time the two of them met, and they talked about things in the territory.

Shang Tianti said that everything was fine, but the boundary stakes could not really solve the problem of human communication inside and outside the territory.

More and more refugees from the Three Demon Kings' territories fled here. Shang Tianti did not want to have conflicts with them, so he often spent spirit stones to buy them off.

But the number of refugees is increasing.

He was worried that if this continued for decades, the human villages in the territories of the Three Demon Kings would be hollowed out.

By then, the three demon kings will probably turn against us, which will be a big trouble.

Lu Ye nodded after hearing this. This was indeed a problem.

Boundary stakes can roughly divide the human village of Shiwan Dashan into two worlds, inner and outer. But it is impossible to isolate these human beings from communicating with each other.

Even though they are all under the command of three demon kings, the human villages are actually a world of their own, and intermarriage, war and alliances are common occurrences between villages.

Some villages were fortunate enough to be incorporated into Luye's jurisdiction.

In the first few years, the people may be timid and confused about the situation, so they just behave themselves and become obedient citizens.

When life gets better, especially since the demon king above us basically never shows up and doesn't care about anything.

The people in the territory are living comfortably, and they also want to help their relatives and friends.

After all, no one comes out of a crack in a rock.

Who among them doesn’t have three or five relatives and friends outside the boundary post?
In fact, in Lu Ye's opinion, life in the human village in Jie Zhuang is far from good.

Because they have to support so many monks, the human race is actually very busy and tired every day.

I am busy all year round.

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Young and strong laborers went to mine, plant trees and fields, and hunt monsters.

The old, the weak and the young all have to go to the fields to pick fruits and plant silkworms.

Even during the slack season for farming, they are busy as they will be organized to practice basic martial arts techniques for the human race together. Everyone is required to learn martial arts.

In addition, there are many places in the territory where there is no freedom.

For example, private fights and village conflicts are prohibited, and everything is decided by the lord’s spokesperson, Shang Tianti.

And Shang Tianti has too many things to take care of.

Even the issue of whether boys or girls have children is regulated, and people are encouraged to have more children.

If a man and a woman have not yet paired up to have children when they reach the age, they will be forced to form a partnership.

In addition to production, life, martial arts training and upbringing, Shang Tianti even forced everyone to learn the human language which they thought was completely useless.

It was a system that was completely different from the demon clan's writing system.

Many people don’t understand. We were born illiterate, but aren’t we still living well?

Why should we study when we are so busy and exhausted every day?

Yet nothing was explained.

If you violate the lord's will several times, you will be expelled from the boundary stakes.

Therefore, although no one understands, no one dares to disobey.

Although there are many rules in the territory, there are three major advantages of the territory.

First, no one will become food for the demons. You no longer have to worry about opening your eyes and finding a hideous-looking demon breaking into your home and kidnapping your wife and children in front of you. The next time you see them, they have turned into bones in the pot.

Secondly, there are extremely crude rules within the territory, prohibiting murder, rape, and theft.

All punishments here are the same. Offenders are sent to the mines to do hard labor. The only difference is the length of the sentence.

Manpower in the territory is extremely scarce and precious, so it is impossible to sentence them to death, but they can be punished by doing dangerous work.

Third, there has been no fighting in the territory in decades.

Since there have been no major wars, a generation of people has successfully lived to old age and is now peacefully buried in their beds.

But in Lu Ye's view, this is just the life of ordinary people in ordinary mortal countries in the future.

In the eyes of the human race in the Ten Thousand Mountains, it is a paradise on earth. They have actually lived through too many hard days filled with blood and tears.

Now that I am living a good life, how can I bear to let my relatives and friends live in hell outside the boundary?
Those boundary stakes were just ordinary pieces of wood, which were moved by the demon tribes using their magic power and driven directly into the ground with brute force as a mark between the two worlds.

How difficult would it be for a mortal warrior with martial arts skills to deal with an ordinary tree?
Even if it is a child who has no martial arts skills, if several people work together and persevere, they can slowly chisel out a hole.

As a result, countless small holes like this will be drilled to connect the inside and outside of the boundary stakes.

At the beginning, only a few villagers from outside were skeptical and fled into the tree hole.

But after they lived in the territory for a while, they found that everything was real.

They couldn't help but climb out of the cave to call more relatives and friends.

It was simply that the people in the outside villages couldn't bear it any longer.

Because the Three Demon Kings ceded one-third of their territory to Lu Ye, the number of people under their command decreased, but their taxes did not decrease.

Anyway, in their impression, aren't those inferior races very capable of rising?

Give them a few decades and they will give birth to another litter of puppies.

As for the fact that taxes cannot be paid, it must be because those inferior tribes are being cunning and cunning and are unwilling to work hard. It would be good enough to chop off a few more heads to establish our authority.

With such a move, the human villages were already suffering.

There was no place to escape before, but now with the attraction of the paradise within the boundary stakes, more people dare to escape.

Although all the neighbors have fled, the taxes set by the demon tribe have not been reduced, which will only defeat the remaining villagers who are still holding out faster.

The three demon kings discovered that the number of refugees had increased significantly, so their response was simple and crude, which was to set up more patrolling demon soldiers and execute anyone they found. They managed to suppress the wave with their butcher knives.

Although there are no large groups of refugees nowadays, there are still sporadic refugees appearing every day.

Two or three today, three or five tomorrow.

In the long run, that would be a considerable population.

In a few decades, even the Three Demon Kings, no matter how slow-witted they are, should realize that something is wrong.

By then, I'm afraid they will turn against each other because of the loss of human beings in the territory.

The three Demon Emperors are not scary, but behind them stand three Demon Emperors, and behind the three Demon Emperors are the major mountains of the demon clan.

The human race in this area is as weak as a small flame, while it is surrounded by the surging rivers of the demon race.

If any wave comes, it will destroy this foundation.

Seeing Shang Tianti looked worried, Lu Ye patted him on the shoulder.

"Don't worry, Lao Shang."

"Is there anything in the world that can have the best of both worlds?"

"Give us a few more decades to develop and find the right opportunity, and then we'll see who will rule the Shiwan Mountains!"

Lu Ye did not continue to dwell on this topic because there was no answer to this question.

Humans are not cold, temperatureless stones. Although they also like to fight among themselves, they are ultimately creatures with emotions.

Everyone has lived through hard times, and the human race of this era is still particularly simple and honest.

When life is good, who doesn’t want to help their brothers?
Knowing that it is impossible to completely cut off the flow of people, Lao Shang can only find a balance. Anyway, the territory is not short of spirit stones now. If someone really escapes, he will just spend the spirit stones.

It's better than seeing blood.

As for the way to deal with Lu Ye, it is also very simple.

That is to become stronger and stronger. Only when you are strong enough can you provide a support for your people.

The two continued their deep conversation for another half an hour.

Regarding the territory, it was decided to continue with the previous plan.

Everyone practices martial arts, encourages childbirth, spreads writing, improves spiritual roots, and digs out and cultivates more seeds for cultivating immortals for the future.

After discussing for a while, Shang Tianti knew that Lu Ye had just survived a heavenly tribulation and his body was still weak and needed to recover and consolidate, so he said goodbye politely.

After Shang Tianti leaves.

Only then did Lu Ye have time to observe his body carefully.

He has now transformed back into his human form.

Close your eyes and use your consciousness to look inward at your body.

But I saw a spiritual body in the sea emitting great light, about ten feet high.

This spiritual body was the origin of Lu Ye's soul. With a thought in his mind, he first transformed into a Bodhisattva of Merit wearing armor and holding a sword, and then transformed into the Nine Heavens Thunder Lord holding a hammer and a spike.

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(End of this chapter)