Li Yao was dumbfounded. He made a gesture and said, "Wait, Senior Jin, are you implying that you planned to turn demons into human beings decades in advance? At that time, you shouldn't have known the existence of the Blood of Chaos at all! "
Jin Tuyi coughed softly and said slowly, "Firstly, I never said that I would turn demons into human beings. In fact, I feel that the 'old demons' and the 'old human beings' right now both have major shortcomings. They cannot be called the 'strongest fighting species in the sea of stars', nor can they pave a way out of the 'dark forest' that you mentioned.
"From that point of view, Elder Nether Spring and I agree with each other again, except that his approach is more radical.
"If there is a chance, I would really like to capture Elder Nether Spring alive and talk with him through the night. It will certainly be more interesting than chatting with an ignorant young man like you!"
"…" Li Yao.
"Secondly, decades ago, of course, I didn't know the existence of 'Chaos' or the whole truth about the origins of the demon race. I didn't know that demons could be completely transformed into human beings through the Blood of Chaos, either.
"However, demons are a very strange species in the first place.
"However different our appearance is, we share a lot of features of human beings. It's like we are an 'upgraded version' based on the human form with all kinds of organs.
"Also, when our offspring are just born, they barely look like demons at all. They are more like human beings.
"High-level demons, after a bit of training, can even master the ability to transform into human beings. It seems not to be a demonic art but some sort of 'naturally-endowed technique'!
"We are not blind. Faced with the facts, have we never considered the relationship between demons and human beings?
"Maybe everybody has, except that nobody has the courage to think deeper, except me and Elder Nether Spring.
"At that time, I didn't know about the existence of the Blood of Chaos, but since some of the high-level demons can 'transform into human beings', some of them are different. Some of the chaotic-blood demons are barely different from human beings in appearance in the first place. Therefore, after they melted into the civilization of mankind, they communicated and learned to a certain extent and eventually found the path to the renaissance of our race. It's not impossible. "
"This is exactly why I proposed the Red Tide Plan," Li Yao said.
"The Red Tide Plan has never been a simple offensive plan. It is the beginning of a series of plans."
"What you see now is only the first phase of the Red Tide Plan. It wants to achieve two purposes. "
"Firstly, I will seize the supreme power of the Blood Demon Sector so that the entire Blood Demon Sector will carry out my will. This is the most important step, because few people will understand or support what I am going to do. Therefore, I have to be assertive and unstoppable!
"Secondly, we need to open up a channel to communicate with the Tian Yuan Realm. Or rather, a channel to force the people of the Heaven's Origin Sector to sit down and communicate!
"Under normal circumstances, it is impossible for the people of the Heaven's Origin Sector to sit down and negotiate with the 'mutated, inhumane demons'.
"But what if a knife is placed on their necks?"
"The Eye of Blood Demon is the core of the first phase of the Red Tide Plan.
Li Yao's eyes bulged wider and wider. "You planned to destroy the Eye of Blood Demon on the first day you built it?
"The Eye of Blood Demon was born for an unprecedented destruction?"
"But that's not right. My appearance is an accident. How can you be sure that the Eye of Blood Demon will be destroyed without me? Are you sure that you can destroy the Eye of Blood Demon at the critical moment? "
"Of course," Jin Tuyi said coldly, "I had other arrangements in the original plan, including arranging two opposing specialists to maintain the stabilization system together. That was a minor part of the plan, too.
"As for whether or not I can destroy the Eye of Blood Demon at the critical moment. It is not important at all for me to completely destroy the Eye of Blood Demon. I don't even want to completely destroy it.
"I only need to let the first wave of attack pass through the wormhole and teleport them to the capital city. I even need to teleport two to three waves of troops over. Then, I will deal some minor damage to the Eye of Blood Demon and stop it from functioning for one to two days.
"One to two days is enough for the Heaven's Origin Sector to react. Hundreds of Core Formation Stage Cultivators and even Nascent Soul Stage Cultivators will arrive incessantly. Without the reinforcements, the isolated and helpless demon emperors are destined to be killed in the Heaven's Origin Sector!
Li Yao gasped hard. "So, your original plan was to let Elder Blood Robe, Elder Nether Spring, and the other demon emperors enter the capital city, cut off the wormhole, and wait for them to fight the Yuanying Cultivators of the Tian Yuan Realm until both sides suffer heavy losses?"
"More or less."
Jin Tuyi scratched his nose with a feather. "At that time, how could I have known that I would be elected as the commander-in-chief of the Coalition Army of Demons? In the Blood Demon Sector, as the chief of the Feather Clan, I was the No. 3 person in the Blood Demon Sector at best. That was the only way that I could gather all the people ahead of me and kill them all in one go! "
Li Yao swallowed and secretly moved two inches back. He mumbled, "I'm beginning to believe that you and Elder Nether Spring are truly 'bosom friends'. If the two of you work together, you will be invincible!"
Jin Tuyi was not bothered by the mockery in Li Yao's words. He went on. "Other than clearing all the obstacles for me, the other important role of the Eye of Blood Demon is to establish a 'fast channel' to the capital city.
"In my original plan, I did not intend to destroy the Eye of Blood Demon so seriously. But no matter how badly it is damaged, it can still be repaired.
"Once it is repaired, we will have a dagger that can stab the heart of the Tian Yuan Realm at any time!
"Of course, you might think that the second attack will not succeed when so many demon emperors and elites have been lost, and everybody in the Heaven's Origin Sector knows our attack pattern."
"Yes, it will not succeed, but it will cause tremendous damage to the capital city and even the prosperous areas in the southeast of the Federation!
"The Heaven's Origin Sector has been at peace for too long after all. Although the flames of war are still burning on the Grand Desolate Plateau, the ordinary people living in the prosperous areas in the southeast haven't experienced a large-scale war for more than a hundred years under the protection of the Giant Blade Pass.
"Under such circumstances, if I, as the supreme ruler of the Blood Demon Sector, propose that we sit down and negotiate a peace agreement, do you think the government of the Federation will consider it?"
"Absolutely not."
Li Yao gritted his teeth and said, one word after another, "Under such circumstances, the first wave of demon emperors and soldiers will not wait to be killed. Even if they are killed, they will drag the entire capital city down with them! The capital city of the Federation will be transformed into a hellish hell, and you will be the mastermind. Not a single Cultivator or citizen of the Federation will negotiate with you! "
Jin Tuyi smiled again. "Young man, you are wrong again. Don't confuse who I am right now with who I was at that time.
"When I conceived the Red Tide Plan, I did not know that I would become the commander-in-chief of the Coalition Army of Demons. At that time, I was only the No. 3 person in the Coalition Army of Demons. The best I could do was propose a surprise attack. The real decision-makers and commanders were Elder Blood Robe, Elder Nether Spring, and the rest of them.
"They were the masterminds!
"Most of the 'masterminds' were sent to the Tian Yuan Realm in the first teleportation. Some were killed, some were captured, and some escaped.
"By then, I could totally shift all the blame to them. They were the culprits who started the war. They were the insane butchers!
"I, on the other hand, represented the 'Li' who still craved peace in the Blood Demon Sector."
Jin Tuyi's pure white wings grew out of his back again and covered him like a white garment. "See? You can't find a second demon who is more like a 'Li' than I am, can you?"
Although he knew that the guy did not use any demonic energy, although his crystal bombs had been tied to the guy's arm, and although he knew that the guy was a critically ill patient whose brain was gradually freezing and posed no threat to him, Li Yao still felt that the guy was still alive.
But Li Yao still felt cold from the bottom of his heart.
"At that time," Jin Tuyi said casually, "the Xing Yao Federation had just witnessed the brutality and craziness of the 'hawks' such as Elder Blood Robe and Elder Nether Spring, and they knew that I was a 'Li' who still had a 'conscience'. Would they have closed the door of dialogue completely and watched me step down and be replaced by an even more brutal, crazy, and unpredictable hawk?
"This was my original plan. As long as the two parties started a dialogue, the subsequent procedures of the Red Tide Plan would be carried out, too. I believed that I would certainly lead the Blood Demon Sector on a completely different path of renaissance!
"However, man proposes, God disposes. There were two things that I never expected."
There was vague bitterness in Jin Tuyi's laughter. "Firstly, I did not foresee that there was a second demon who could see the future so clearly other than me and who was also planning a brand-new path for the future of the demon race. That person was Elder Nether Spring!"
"Elder Nether Spring is not as good as you," Li Yao said. "He gradually grasped the past and future of the demon race after receiving the heritage of Chaos, but you deduced everything based on nothing."
Jin Tuyi waved his hands. "That is not important. What is important is that Elder Nether Spring's arrival disrupted my previous arrangements. What is more dreadful is that I was diagnosed with cerebral sclerosis. Although I still have a long natural lifespan, my political life and my extraordinary thinking ability were destined to come to an end.
"The Spore Stratagem and the cerebral sclerosis pushed me into desperation. For a period of time, I almost gave up and could only watch my race walk toward destruction."
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