"To achieve the purpose, you did not hesitate to annihilate fourteen demon emperors and countless elites of the Blood Demon Sector. You even threw out the Red Tide Plan, your life's work, as bait and completely ruined it!"
Li Yao felt that his heart was cold. Jin Tuyi's cruelty was beyond his imagination.
But something was not right!
Li Yao thought for a moment and shook his head hard. "No. Something is wrong here. If you were really afflicted with cerebral sclerosis, you would not have been able to hide it for long. What's the point of becoming the unquestionable dominator of the Blood Demon Sector?
"If I were you, I would've implemented the plan that I had devoted decades of my life to without caring about the cost after I was diagnosed with a terminal disease, wouldn't I? How can I use a lifetime of hard work in exchange for a fleeting moment of power? "
Jin Tuyi burst into laughter. Then, he coughed so hard that tears were gathering at the corners of his eyes. He rolled his wings and rubbed his temples with the feathers to ease the headache. Nodding his head quickly, he said, "Young man, you are quite right. That's exactly what I'm doing!"
"In your eyes, the Red Tide Plan is equal to the Eye of Blood Demon. If the Eye of Blood Demon is destroyed, the Red Tide Plan will be destroyed, too, right?"
Li Yao frowned. "Is it not?"
"Of course not."
Jin Tuyi said casually. "How can a plan that I have been contemplating for decades and even sacrificing my life be as simple as a surprise attack?
"Even if the surprise attack succeeds and the capital city of the Xing Yao Federation is occupied, so what? "From a resistance organization five hundred years ago, you have developed into a huge country that occupies the entire Heaven's Origin Sector. You people of the federation have enough tenacity and determination. Even if your capital is occupied, you will never surrender until the final moment. It is even possible that the Blood Demon Sector will be destroyed together with you!
"Even if you do surrender and the Xing Yao Federation is completely destroyed, the demon race rules the twin world of the Blood Demon Heaven's Origin after the fusion. So what? Is it meaningful? "
Li Yao did not understand. "Crushing the Xing Yao Federation and ruling the new twin world? Is it meaningless to double the territory? "
"No, it's meaningless."
Jin Tuyi said coldly. "Even if we completely conquer the Tian Yuan Realm, it will only be an isolated island at the edge of the cosmos that will become two isolated islands. How are we going to face the attack from the Imperium of True Human Beings when we are two devastated islands?
Li Yao was more and more shocked. "You believe in the Imperium of True Human Beings? That was not right. No, no! You must've planned the Red Tide Plan decades ago, at least more than ten years ago. You couldn't have known about the Imperium of True Human Beings at that time. It was absolutely impossible!
"Of course, I didn't know the existence of the Imperium of True Human Beings. To this moment, you haven't provided any concrete evidence to prove it."
Jin Tuyi smiled and said, "But. He didn't need any evidence at all. He only needed the simplest thinking ability to think about it. Then you'll understand one thing. "
"If even the barren land at the edge of the cosmos could give birth to such forces as the Tian Yuan Realm and the Blood Demon Sector, which had passed on the tinder of civilizations in the past forty thousand years …
"Then, at the center of the cosmos, where the resources are highly concentrated, one or more of them must've been born in the past ten thousand years. More advanced forces, right? "
"Not the Imperium of True Human Beings. The fake Imperium of True Human Beings or the new Imperium of True Human Beings. Anyway, it doesn't matter what the name is. The key is that such a powerful force was destined to be born a long time ago! "
Li Yao pondered for a moment and nodded. It was rather strange that he had never thought of such a simple logic.
"Since the force was born at the center of the cosmos in the prosperous area of the Imperium in the past, it was only a matter of time before they discovered the star map left by the Imperium in the past while they acquired the enormous arsenal and techniques of the Imperium in the past, and eventually discovered the existence of all the worlds, right?"
Li Yao nodded solemnly.
"And after discovering the existence of other worlds, they would definitely launch an expedition, hoping to restore the homeland of the Empire in the past, or even expand their territory to a wider sea of stars. It is the nature of our race, and we claim to be the 'strongest fighting race in the sea of stars', right?"
Li Yao noticed that Jin Tuyi used the term 'our species'. But he simply frowned and did not interrupt.
Jin Tuyi's voice was extremely peaceful. His deep eyes were filled with the desolation that seemed to have seen through everything. "I didn't learn the truth about 'chaos' and the origin of the demon race until a month ago. However, as a voice in the academic world, I've heard of the 'same-origin theory' a long time ago and believed it without any doubt.
"More importantly, through the exploration of the history of the past ten thousand years, the rise of the Xing Yao Federation, and the war between the Heaven's Origin Sector and the Blood Demon Sector, I gradually made up my mind that the glory of the demon race in the past is gone forever. The age of 'demons' has come to an end, and the future is destined to be the age of 'human beings'!
"Hehe. On the issue, Elder Nether Spring and I are kindred spirits. We can be called 'bosom friends' and 'fellow Cultivators'!"
Li Yao's face was weird, and a strong sense of absurdity rose up in his heart.
Two of the four giants of the Blood Demon Sector were convinced that the demon race was bound to fail? It — it was too unbelievable!
He blurted out, "Are you and Elder Nether Spring capitulationists?"
"Wrong."
Jin Tuyi said casually, "We are firm pessimists, not capitulationists."
Li Yao did not understand. "What's the difference?"
"Of course it's different," Jin Tuyi said. "The pessimists change their direction and try their best to find a new path when they realize that the path is impassable. The capitulationists stay where they are and wait for the enemy to show mercy when they realize that the path is impassable.
"Elder Nether Spring and I are both convinced that the old path is absolutely impassable. Therefore, we are both trying our best to find a new path. However, Elder Nether Spring came up with the Spore Stratagem, and I came up with the Red Tide Plan.
"I was convinced that the demon race was bound to fail. Of course, I was not talking about the minor competition between the Blood Demon Sector and the Tian Yuan Realm. In the local war between the two worlds, it was certainly possible for the demon race to secure a temporary victory and even completely conquer the Tian Yuan Realm.
"However, when I tossed and turned in bed for countless nights, allowing my soul to leave the Blood Demon Sector and the Tian Yuan Realm and fly to the depths of the sea of stars, where I considered the future of my race on a larger scale, I discovered in desperation countless times that the victory in the local war was absolutely meaningless.
"The world has changed!
"Just like you said, the rise of the demon race was due to the gory war of the ancient Cultivators forty thousand years ago, which led to the exhaustion of spiritual energy in the three thousand Sectors and the 'Age of Doom'.
"In a world where spiritual energy was scarce and the environment was harsh, the demon race who utilized the power of genes was more adapted to the environment and more likely to survive.
"That was why the glory of the demon race lasted for thirty thousand years!
"After forty thousand years of rest, the spiritual energy in the three thousand Sectors is getting denser again, and the 'Age of Doom' is slowly walking out. It is destined to sound the first death knell for the destruction of the old demon race."
"However, it was not the most important reason why the old demon race was destined to be destroyed."
Li Yao was completely confused. "What?"
"The key was technology. The popularization of all kinds of magical equipment and training arts, and the integration of Cultivators and ordinary people, while overturning the old social form, gradually eroded the greatest advantage of the old demon race, too."
Jin Tuyi slowly opened his wings and smiled. "Beautiful wings, aren't they? Do you know why the demon race evolved wings, shells, claws, and tusks? "
Li Yao scratched his head. What kind of weird question was that? Was it not natural that the demon race had wings, claws, and shells?
"In the age of the ancient Cultivators forty thousand years ago," Jin Tuyi said, "the Cultivators were selfish and conservative. They regarded ordinary people as ants and never considered to teach the advanced techniques to the ordinary people or to make profits for the ordinary people with powerful magical equipment. The only thing they did was to fight, fight, and fight with their magical equipment and techniques! While they are killing each other, they are recklessly wasting precious crystals and spiritual energy! "
"Therefore, in the age of the ancient Cultivators, the upper and lower levels of the society were completely torn apart!
"On one hand, there were the high and mighty Cultivators who were capable of reversing the situation.
"On the other hand, there were the ordinary ancient people who lived in abject poverty and lacked medicine. They were ignorant and backward, no better than the primitive people.
"No matter how powerful the flying swords of the Cultivators are, the ordinary people still have to dig for food in the barren land with a bald hoe. They still have to crouch in a dark, muddy shack, not even willing to light an oil lamp. The Cultivators, on the other hand, would rather spend decades meditating in seclusion and practicing a new skill of killing than waste years of their time to create a hoe that saves more labor or a piece of universal illumination magical equipment that is cleaner and cheaper.
"It was an age when the gap between the ordinary people and the Cultivators was the greatest. In the eyes of the ordinary people, the Cultivators were out-and-out 'deities on the land'. It was not a complete 'civilization of mankind' at all but a freak that was a combination of the 'civilization of the Cultivators' and the 'civilization of the ordinary people' by force. The gap between the two civilizations was at least thousands of years!
"Such a gap created the best opportunity for the rise of the old Demon Clans."
"After taking the 'Holy Water of Chaos', the old demons released the strength deep inside their cells and grew sharp tusks, sharp claws, broad wings, and strong tails as the blessings of the primeval age.
"Even without the flying swords, they could fly in the sky freely with their wings. Even without the 'Water Avoidance Pearl', they could swim at the bottom of the ocean with their parotid glands!
"Even if they were no match for the Cultivators, it was more than enough for them to deal with the ordinary people, who were the foundation for the birth and nourishment of the Cultivators. When the foundation was broken, how could the superstructure not fall apart?
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