My brother is so cunning

Chapter 996 Equality for All People Shines into Reality
After randomly selecting a medium-sized city in the cloud, Yunzhongzi slowly descended on the cloud and flew towards the city.

Since there are no clues, we can try to find clues from the small details of the lives of ordinary people in the mortal world.

Yun Zhongzi can be considered a whistleblower of the Investiture of the Gods. He was the first to discover that King Zhou was bewitched by the fox spirit and was incompetent and tyrannical. He also tried to kill the fox spirit and nip the crisis in the bud.

This is one of the key reasons why Yang Ren secretly entrusted him to investigate Wen Rui.

Just as he was able to discover the fox demon hiding in Chaoge back then, Yang Ren believes that his current Uncle Yun Zhongzi can also discover the super evil plan hidden by Wen Rui.

But in reality, Yun Zhongzi wasn't some famous celestial detective like Conan or Di Renjie. He discovered that the fox demon was hiding in Chaoge simply because he had finished his seclusion, stretched at the edge of a cliff, and casually glanced at the aura. He immediately spotted the dense demonic aura hovering above Chaoge.

It wasn't that Yun Zhongzi had exceptional insight; back then, his cultivation level wasn't even among the top twelve in the Chan Sect, and there were countless immortals with higher cultivation than him.

If he could see that there was a demonic aura in Chaoge, were all the other immortals blind and unable to see it?

The only difference is that the immortals who are more accomplished than him see things more clearly, but they pretend not to know and act as if they don't see anything.

Only someone with high enough cultivation could see the demonic aura emanating from Chaoge, but he wasn't so high that he couldn't see through the hidden cause and effect behind it. So, with a compassionate heart to save the world, he rashly went down the mountain and headed straight for Chaoge to meet King Zhou and present him with the demon-slaying sword.

This time, Yun Zhongzi observed the qi from the clouds and discovered that among the major cities on the vast land of Nanzhanbuzhou below, some cities had a strong demonic aura.

However, the demonic aura gathering above these cities was completely different from the demonic fox aura he had seen above Chaoge years ago.

The aura of the demonic fox that I saw back then was pungent and crimson, with swirling black mist and rampant resentment. It was extremely evil and malevolent, suppressing the human race's fortune to the extreme.

The demonic aura we see now, though extremely dense, indicating a large number of demons in these cities, is also balanced and peaceful, intertwined and fused with the human race's fortune, coexisting harmoniously. Without careful observation, it is almost impossible to distinguish them.

At the same time, there are also many towns where the demonic energy is very thin, or even non-existent, such as Haojing, the former capital of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Yun Zhongzi chose a city teeming with demonic energy. He had personally witnessed the demon race of the Lion Camel Kingdom ruling over the human race, treating humans no differently than livestock and stored food. He was very curious about what kind of city the demon race, educated by Wen Rui with the teachings of the Jie Sect, would be like living together with the human race.

As the auspicious clouds gradually approached the city, the bustling scenes of people on the ground, busy making a living, could be vaguely seen.

Sure enough, Yun Zhongzi saw that humans and demons were mixed together on the streets and in the buildings, and they really couldn't be distinguished from each other.

Humans are not afraid of the diverse and strangely shaped demon race, and the demon race does not regard the weak humans as objects of enslavement or food.

With just a casual glance, Yun Zhongzi saw what appeared to be a higher-ranking human directing a group of tall and strong bull and horse spirits to move goods, while at the same time he saw a demon reprimanding a group of humans.

It seems that here, race is not a label that distinguishes all beings. Western religions have been constantly advocating for equality among all beings, but have been slow to implement it and truly achieve it.

A cursory observation could certainly lead to being deceived by appearances. Yun Zhongzi used a transformation spell to become a handsome young man. To better blend in, he even took inspiration from the clothing styles of the city's residents and transformed his Taoist robe into a fitted suit.

This is a classic case of learning from one's mistakes. Last time, he concealed his immortal aura and transformed into an ordinary Taoist priest, yet an old farmer by the roadside saw through his disguise and recognized him immediately as an immortal who had been in seclusion for many years. This time, he went all out, changing his appearance and even wearing the latest mortal-style clothes, so he wouldn't be easily recognized again.

After the transformation was complete, Yun Zhongzi first used an invisibility spell to sneak into the city. In a secluded alley between buildings, he dispelled his invisibility, walked out of the alley, and blended into the crowd.

Only after completing the entire infiltration process did Yun Zhongzi become distracted and stealthily observe the daily life of the city.

This city was the most magnificent and prosperous city he had ever seen in his long immortal life.

Compared to this place, the county towns in the ethnic autonomous region I visited before are simply not worth mentioning.

However, that small county town was more prosperous than Chaoge, which he had visited years ago, and even Haojing, which he visited later, was far inferior to that mere small county town.

The area around Haojing, which was the royal court and aristocratic quarter of the Great Zhou Dynasty, was somewhat decent, but there were hardly any buildings more than three stories high. The civilian quarters were mostly rammed earth and wooden houses, while the outlying commoner quarters consisted entirely of thatched huts and shacks.

The small county town previously managed by the cat demon, even the suburbs, consisted entirely of brick and tile houses. In the slightly more prosperous central urban area, many small buildings were neatly arranged, the roads were wide and flat, the town was orderly, and the public health environment was quite clean and tidy.

This city is far more prosperous than that small county town. The place where Yun Zhongzi landed was not in the very center of the city, but it was still surrounded by buildings. Although these buildings were only five or six stories high, they were still considered rare high-rise buildings for Yun Zhongzi, an ancient person.

The royal palace of the Great Zhou Dynasty was only larger in size; the tallest building in the palace was only a three-story wooden building.

Previously, from the sky, Yun Zhongzi could see the bustling area in the very center of the city, where several high-rise buildings, each over ten stories tall, stood. The exterior walls of those buildings were made of smooth, mirror-like glass, reflecting the sunlight and gleaming.

Only two hundred years have passed, and the human world has become a place that Yun Zhongzi would never recognize.

He also remembered that two hundred years after the fall of the Shang Dynasty, when he went down the mountain to visit Haojing, the capital of the Zhou Dynasty, he saw that although the city had made some progress compared to the Shang Dynasty, there was not much difference.

The city built by the people after the Jie Sect's teachings, also within two hundred years, is so magnificent, and everything in the city is so novel.

Surrounded by a large number of demons, Yun Zhongzi gradually became less sensitive and no longer immediately shouted and killed whenever he saw a cat demon, unlike before.

Over time, this creates the illusion that those fairies, whether large or small and with all sorts of strange appearances, are essentially no different from humans, the only difference being their appearance.

He saw a spider spirit in a cheongsam handing out flyers at the entrance of a department store, her eight slender arms deftly stuffing the advertising paper into the hands of passersby.

He saw a human arguing with a tiger spirit, and he was so agitated that he was eager to rush forward, as if he wanted to slide tackle the tiger, which was three times his size and a meter taller than him.

The tiger spirit, on the contrary, looked timid and cowardly, unwilling to cause trouble. It was a rabbit spirit who couldn't stand it and jumped out, using its sharp voice and outstanding eloquence to scold the human until he slunk away.

(End of this chapter)