Zhutian: From Douluo, the illusion becomes real

Chapter 727, Section 726: How about I join?
The south is rainy and the vegetation is lush.

Therefore, this border town, near the Southern Kingdom but within human territory, still experienced a continuous drizzle after the demon calamity ended. The rain was just a little lighter, perhaps because the magical energy fluctuations from the battle between the Southern Kingdom's demon king and Wang Quanba and others dispersed some of the dark clouds, or perhaps it was affected by the natural environment. After all, no rain can last forever; some rain comes and goes quickly, lasting only ten or half an hour, and then it's gone. It's normal for the rain to have shrunk after more than two hours. But in any case, the rain was still falling normally.

Ye Qingcang was also eating his meal normally.

of course.

Although it was close to midnight.

In modern terms, that would be eight or nine o'clock.

The town is no longer as quiet as it used to be.

Look around.

People wearing straw raincoats were cleaning up the scene everywhere.

This is also a true reflection of how the human race was oppressed by the demon race.

It seemed like capturing a demon king was a great gain, at least that's what Wang Quanba, Li Quzhuo, Li Zizai, Chi Huo, Shi Tang, and others thought. Although there were many demon kings in the demon race, if you counted carefully, there should be at least five hundred. After all, just in the Southern Kingdom alone, there were seventy-two numbered demon kings, plus the Five Poison Protectors and others, as well as some reclusive old monsters guarding various forbidden zones, making eighty demon kings wouldn't be a problem. The number of demon kings in the Western Regions was no less than that in the Southern Kingdom, and the demon kings in the Western Regions were generally more irritable and aggressive than those in the Southern Kingdom. In addition, whether or not they attacked in the Western Regions didn't require consideration of diplomatic issues. Some inherently violent demon kings also gathered there. Add to that the Northern Mountain, which is similar to the Southern Kingdom, and these three forces, each led by a demon emperor, could easily gather three hundred demon kings. In addition, there are some reclusive demon kings within the Tushan territory. Because Tushan emphasizes reincarnation and continuing predestined relationships, these reclusive demon kings generally settle down in Tushan, and Tushan is willing to entertain them. There are also some rogue cultivators, such as the Yueti clan, which currently has two demon king-level combatants: Granny Yueti and the top-tier demon king, Black Donkey Azhu. Yueti Xia is still some distance from becoming a demon king. In short, the number of demon kings is both large and small.

At least the Qi Dao Alliance cannot muster five hundred experts at the Demon King level to deal with this.

The number of demon king-level experts in the One Qi Alliance is only one-quarter of this number.

That is, less than 150 people.

So, let's talk about the basics.

Humans are no weaker than demons.

If a demon emperor truly appears among the human race.

Or perhaps a master capable of directly confronting the Demon Emperor.

With the resources that the human race has accumulated, although it cannot withstand the joint attack of the three major demon kingdoms, it can still take on a single demon kingdom. At that time, it can directly carry out strategic deterrence.

In other words, it's fine if you join forces, but whoever dares to attack me first, I will target you and fight you to the death. I will also tell the other two countries whether they choose to abide by the alliance and help this beaten demon kingdom, or whether they choose to use one to devour the other and wait until we and this demon kingdom are both exhausted before taking the opportunity to swallow up both our human territory and this demon kingdom's territory in one go. You can decide for yourselves.

Under this threat.

The demon kingdom that was being targeted had no choice but to bow its head.

This is a classic example of someone who has nothing to lose and isn't afraid of someone who has nothing to lose.

However, the human race now lacks top-tier combat power, which means they lack a demon emperor. Even if they try this tactic, they cannot shake the foundation of the demon kingdom due to their limited strength. To put it bluntly, even if the human race really manages to use the exchange tactic to wipe out all the demon kings in the Western Regions, would the Southern Kingdom and the Northern Mountain have the guts to invade the Western Regions?
As long as Fan Yunfei doesn't die.

The South and the North could only choose to turn a blind eye.

Even if Fan Yunfei is a lone commander.

Then again, wouldn't that be even more terrifying?
Since there's nothing left to lose.

Then there's nothing to hesitate about.

Fight in the way that will have the best effect.

Anyone who dares to invade the Western Regions.

Even if Fan Yunfei is unable to engage in a protracted war with Huan Du Qingtian, the Southern Emperor, and Shi Kuan, the Northern Emperor, due to time constraints, the demon kings under their command cannot withstand Fan Yunfei's attacks. Such panic is enough to cause the system of a demon kingdom to collapse and disintegrate. Huan Du Qingtian and Shi Kuan have no reason to offend Fan Yunfei.

This is the reason why the Demon Emperor determined the world's格局 (geju, a term referring to the overall situation or structure of the world).

There are indeed differences in strength among the demon emperors.

But as long as it's the Demon Emperor.

Or rather, a powerful being who can easily suppress all the demon kings in the world.

It possesses the ability to disregard most of the rules of the world.

Take Fan Yunfei as an example.

With only 10% of his demonic power left to fight for the world, Fan Yunfei can be considered the weakest among the demon emperors. He can't even defeat Huan Du Qingtian. But being unable to defeat him doesn't mean he can't escape. If he wants to leave, not only Huan Du Qingtian, but even if Huan Du Qingtian, Shi Kuan, the later Tu Shan Honghong, and the future Tu Shan Ya Ya join forces, they can't stop him. This means he has super mobility and initiative. As long as he can put aside his pride and use guerrilla tactics, he can cause chaos. Unless a strong person like the Third Young Master, who can easily suppress him, blocks his path, none of the current demon emperors can catch him.

So, what other way is there to stop Fan Yunfei, a powerful figure who can escape once caught and who has the ability to destroy a city with a single blow or bury millions of people with a casual strike? Besides negotiation, what other way is there to stop him?

Theoretically speaking, of course.

Just invite the Third Young Master out.

However, as everyone knows, if someone has the ability to invite the Third Young Master out, their own strength must have reached a certain level, and they could suppress Fan Yunfei with their own strength alone.

There's no need to go through all that trouble; it's unnecessary.

Therefore, the loss of the Demon King would certainly cause a stir.

But it's still a bit short of shaking the foundation.

However, considering that among the monsters invading the human race, the Demon Kings are the main force, and the Demon Emperor rarely ventures out, capturing a Demon King is equivalent to reducing the pressure on the human border by about one-five-hundredth. Taking into account the other three aspects, it is equivalent to reducing the pressure on the southern defense line by one-eightieth, which is already a considerable result. After all, although the lifespan of the demon race is very long, their intelligence is not high. They often need a long time to reach the awakening stage, that is, to upgrade their low-level intelligence to high-level intelligence and have a similar understanding ability and ability to accept new things as humans. Therefore, demon kings are not as common as cabbages, and you can find a few by simply turning over the ground. On the other hand, although the human race has a fast pace of renewal and iteration, each generation can continue. If human cultivators could live longer, not to mention much, even if those demon king-level cultivators could live to two hundred years old, doubling their original lifespan, the number of human demon kings could also double. Even if one human race were to fight against two demon kingdoms, it would not be a problem.

Unfortunately, there is no if in the world.

With an average lifespan of less than a hundred years, or even less than eighty years, human cultivators have found themselves in an extremely awkward position.

It's not that humans don't have exceptionally talented geniuses.

The only downside is the battery life.

It took the demon race ten thousand years to produce about five hundred demon kings. Even counting those killed by the human race, that's less than a thousand.

But what about the humans?

Humanity has existed for no more than a thousand years.

At least from the appearance of the first cultivator.

It has been less than a thousand years to date.

However, the number of human demon king-level cultivators had approached the mark of 1,300. It's just that, as time went by, more than 1,000 died in battle or from old age, leaving only about 150. This means that their lifespans were significantly reduced.

After all, the two races develop at different times.

One spans ten thousand years, the other a thousand years.

If only humans could live as long as demons.

Now is the time for the human race to completely suppress the demon race.

Don’t say anything else.

Throughout history, there have always been many human experts who have reached the threshold of becoming a Demon Emperor.

Take Wang Quan Shouzhuo and Dongfang Guyue for example.

If these two people were not subject to lifespan limitations.

Remove the restrictions imposed on Wang Quanshouzhuo due to his frail health and frequent illnesses.

A hundred years should be enough time for them to figure out a new path.

Let's go back a bit further.

That era when royal power was waning.

Leaving aside the tragedy of the fading of royal power, let's talk about the others.

Like Lei Daoren Wendao, and the Ice Fairy Nalan Xue.

Du E, the Drunken Peony, the Small Saucer Sword, Zhang Feng, the Black Sword, and so on.

These people all have the potential to become Demon Emperors.

Unfortunately, they no longer had that time.

The first ten years were spent in ignorance.

The situation over the past ten years.

Another ten years of arduous training.

This is my life journey over the past thirty years.

He became famous in the following ten years.

They held firm for another ten years.

The next ten years will see a decline.

This marks another thirty years of my life journey.

Added together, that's sixty years, which is also sixty years old.

Although the theoretical maximum human lifespan is only about one hundred years, in reality, in this world, even without considering the hidden injuries accumulated from half a lifetime of fighting, just considering normal lifespan, eighty years or more is already considered a long life. There are only twenty years left until sixty years old. This is equivalent to a highly talented cultivator having to use these twenty years to open up a new path and open up a path that all the predecessors of the past thousand years have failed to traverse.

How difficult is it?

Perhaps only a genius like Wang Quan Wu Mu is qualified to try it.

Even those with royal power and ambitions might not qualify.

Therefore, in the overall situation, it is still more common for the demon race to invade the human race. Capturing the demon king alive not only greatly boosts the morale of the human race, but also reduces the overall strength of the demon race. Although there are rising stars among the demon race, it will take at least one or two hundred years for a newly emerging demon king to emerge, which is enough time for the human race to breathe a little easier and loosen the collar around their necks.

Avoid prolonged periods of suffocation.

But to say how good the results were...

Obviously not.

Because the battle took place within human territory.

The damage to the human environment was extremely severe.

Take this small town for example.

So many giant spider corpses, as big as houses, were piled up all over the town.

Should we clean it up or not?

If we don't clean it up, it will be too late once the rain stops.

Once the sun comes up...

The corpses of these monsters will then rot.

Not to mention that these spider demons are inherently poisonous, even if they were non-poisonous, treating them as humans in the humid, rainforest-like environment of the South could easily make them the source of a plague.

But once the plague breaks out...

Everyone in the entire town will die.

Furthermore, Taoist priests who slay demons and monsters never concern themselves with such trivial matters. At most, they would need the severed heads as evidence to exchange for merit points at the Qi Dao Alliance. Expecting them to help clean up the battlefield is pure nonsense.

Conversely, let's say...

Isn't wasting this kind of manpower an extra expense?
Moreover, besides this most basic manpower expenditure, what about the houses of some unfortunate people that were destroyed, including various properties such as collapsed chicken coops or vegetable gardens that were flattened when the spider demon moved, including the poisonous blades and sword energy that flew diagonally when Wang Quanbaye and that Southern Demon King fought? Aren't these property losses also losses?
How can the losses suffered by these people be compensated?
The answer, of course, is that it cannot be undone!
The burden can only be borne by these ordinary people themselves.

As for the damaged sections of the road, needless to say, the potholed road will definitely need to be repaired in the future. Otherwise, it will be difficult for normal people to walk, let alone for vehicles and horses to pass through. If it rains for a few more days, all these potholed places will be flooded, with one foot deep and the other shallow. It would not be surprising if someone bumped their head and bled when they were unlucky. Even if it is a dirt road, it does not need to be a stone slab road or brick road like before. Wouldn't people need to carry shovels to dig soil and fill in all these potholes of all sizes?

In short, it seems like we won.

In reality, we didn't make any money.

Even if the Southern Kingdom pays money to ransom the people.

At most, we won't lose money.

After all, there's no such thing as a thief who can be a thief for a thousand days without being able to guard against thieves for a thousand days.

This time, Ye Qingcang and others were present.

What about next time?

Can Ye Qingcang and the others stay in this small town for years to come?
Moreover, even if Ye Qingcang and the others could stay in this town for a long time, there are hundreds or thousands of towns near the southern border. Could the Yi Qi Dao Alliance send out so many experts to guard the border?

"When things prosper, the people suffer."

"When the country falls, the people suffer."

"That's absolutely true!"

Looking at the townspeople below, dressed in raincoats and working in the rain, Ye Qingcang shook his head regretfully. However, he quickly remembered another saying and corrected himself, "Perhaps describing the current situation as 'dignity lies only on the edge of the sword' would be more accurate..."

This has happened.

No one was in the mood to eat or rest anymore.

Or rather, in an environment where a battle has just broken out, not everyone can be carefree enough to simply go to sleep and ignore the danger.

This can be seen from Dongfang Qinlan.

Even an optimist like Dongfang Qinlan frowned.

The atmosphere was clearly heavy.

Before Dongfang Huaizhu, who was standing to the side, could express her agreement with Ye Qingcang's sentiments, a series of not-too-hurried footsteps sounded from near the servants' quarters of the restaurant. Soon, Li Zizai came from the direction of the kitchen and servants' quarters, nodded to Ye Qingcang, and said in a serious tone: "The interrogation is mostly over. Here are the specific details. If you are interested, you can take a look. In addition, we plan to go to the Southern Kingdom. I wonder what your plans are for this?"

"Thank you."

Ye Qingcang took the ledger used for bookkeeping.

This was provided by the restaurant.

This is considered a temporary interrogation record.

After glancing at it twice, he handed it to Dongfang Qinlan, who was blinking her big eyes and gesturing with her little hand, letting her look at it. After all, this kind of thing wasn't really that important.

Then, he confirmed with Li Zizai, "If I'm not mistaken, you're planning to go to the Southern Kingdom to release those humans who have been captured, right?"

"of course."

Li Zizai nodded.

The voice just fell.

Ye Qingcang's voice followed immediately.

He said with a slightly meaningful tone, "How about I join you on this trip?"

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(End of this chapter)