Tomorrow is 5: 15, the anniversary of the Qi Point. It is the day with the most benefits. Other than the gift bags and school bags, there will be a lot of red packets on 5: 15. There is no reason not to grab them. Set the alarm.
Jin Xinyue, who had finished the heart-to-heart talk with her father, went to report the situation to Li Yao dutifully.
Li Yao was in an awkward position right now. Although most of the Coalition Army of Demons understood that he had saved everyone, fourteen demon emperors had died because of him after all. Besides, countless elite legions and devilish warships had been lost because of him.
Until Jin Tuyi took control of the situation, he decided to stay in the warehouse of crystals on Blood Demon in case somebody outside lost their mind and caused trouble.
On her way, Jin Xinyue had been thinking hard about how she should communicate with her master.
However, the moment she saw Li Yao, her plan was completely torn apart. She was so shocked that her jaw almost hit the ground.
"Mas — Master, how did you end up like this?"
Li Yao's upper body, which was sticking out of the gap of the door, couldn't have looked more miserable.
His clothes were ragged, as if he had just crawled through a mountain of blades and an ocean of flames. His face was swollen, and his head was as big as a pig's. His left eye was so swollen that it was narrowed into a narrow gap. He couldn't see anything at all.
He — he had been hung up and savaged brutally!
Jin Xinyue was shocked!
Who was her master? He was a super expert in the Blood Demon Sector, the Heaven's Origin Sector, and the Flying Star Sector wherever he went. How could he have been beaten so miserably?
Who did it?
Was it a demon emperor who was angry and came to trouble her master? But that was impossible. If her master and a demon emperor were fighting, the entire Blood Demon Sector would have been torn apart by them, wouldn't it?
Jin Xinyue thought quickly and suddenly thought of something. "Master, was it Elder Nether Spring's team? Did someone ambush you? "
Li Yao's lips were as swollen as two big sausages. His voice was muffled as he replied, "No. I did it myself. "
"Ah!"
Jin Xinyue was completely confused. "Shizun … why did you beat yourself up so badly? You look like a pig head! "
Li Yao dragged her into the warehouse of crystals and slammed the door. It was not until then that he finally limped back to his seat. Rubbing the ointment in front of the mirror, he hissed in pain and said, "Let's leave the trivia aside for now. Tell me about your father's Red Tide Plan!"
"Oh!"
Jin Xinyue looked at the messy surroundings, as if hundreds of Demonic Beasts had just rolled around here. With great difficulty, she suppressed her curiosity and calmed herself down. Then, she repeated everything her father had just said to Li Yao word for word.
In the end, she said, "My father said that, although this was the Red Tide Plan in his mind, it was an enormous project that would last a hundred years after all. There were too many variables and difficulties. Many things were just his wishes or even his imagination. They were too unrealistic. It's almost like a lunatic's dream. "
"All in all, he planted the seed of the dream underground. Whether or not it would blossom and bear fruit would depend on him. Whether or not it would become a reality was not something that he could control. It was up to us, especially Master!
"Only with Master's support could the Red Tide Plan be carried out. If Master turned it down, it would be nothing more than an illusion and a dream after all.
"Master, are you willing to support me and the Red Tide Plan? Are you going to support my father's dream? "
Jin Xinyue stared at Li Yao anxiously.
However, her attention was soon attracted by Li Yao's left eye that looked like a rotten peach and his lips that looked like sausages.
Li Yao was holding a cluster of round, translucent gel that was the size of an egg in his hand. After rubbing it in his palm for a moment, something deep inside the gel seemed to have broken. Coldness was spreading out of the gel.
He applied the gel to his left eye that was as brilliant as a peach blossom. While applying the gel carefully, he grimaced and cried out in pain.
Jin Xinyue's heart was pounding. She could not help but think.
She wondered if her father would still allow her master to decide the future of the Blood Demon Sector, the Heaven's Origin Sector, and the Flying Star Sector after seeing her master's current appearance.
Li Yao applied the gel for a long time. It was not until the coldness had completely leaked into his right eye that he finally put down the gel and looked at Jin Xinyue with his remaining right eye.
Jin Xinyue tried to hold back the cramping of her eyelids.
They were supposed to be discussing the future of the three Sectors solemnly. Why was the atmosphere so weird after her master's pig-like face disrupted?
She felt like laughing.
Li Yao was very solemn. He put on his pig-like face and said solemnly, "In fact, I can basically guess what your father is going to say. I've been hesitating since he said that he would surrender to me. I've been hesitating for a whole day today.
"To be honest, when I learned your father's overall plan, my first reaction was not shock but fury. Fury that I had become your father's chess piece.
"My second reaction was shame. Shame that I had stepped into your father's chess game without knowing it.
"After the fury and shame slowly dispersed, a third negative emotion that was even more intense surfaced, which was worry."
Li Yao looked at his deformed face in the mirror. Only his right eye was as clear as before, if not even clearer. "Your father is too awesome. I can't help but think about it.
"I've been thinking. Is your father's plan really so simple? Does he really want the integration of the two species? Could it be an even bigger conspiracy? Is it possible that the Xing Yao Federation will be swallowed by the demon race in the end?
"The more I thought about it, the more I was lost. All kinds of dark thoughts popped up one after another. I even had the absurd thought that your father might be a spy of the Imperium of True Human Beings and that everything was a scheme to pave the way for the Imperium of True Human Beings' invasion!
"A voice in my head was saying that I must not agree to Jin Tuyi's terms. Once I did, it would mean that I had completely lost the game and would become his chess piece!
"Another voice was saying that there was no way that I could defeat such a strong player as Jin Tuyi. He must have incessant subsequent schemes. Once I helped him achieve a peaceful negotiation and a conditional surrender, I would definitely regret it in the future!
"We must kill him in time, no matter what price we have to pay, we must kill him!"
"The voices were echoing inside my head nonstop, swallowing my soul like vipers. In the end, I was almost swallowed by the darkness and embarked on a completely different path! "
While he was talking, Li Yao glanced at the depths of his brain coldly.
Deep inside his brain … The bottom of Ou Yezi's memory tree had shrunk quite a bit. The mental devil, which was covered in wounds and looked even more like a pig's head than him, shivered and said pitifully, "It was just a joke. Why are you so serious?"
Li Yao spat. "Get lost!"
Jin Xinyue listened attentively. Although she did not know the existence of the mental devil, she could tell that her master had run into a huge knot in his heart.
For high-level Cultivators, because of their highly developed computational ability, it was quite common. This was a common occurrence. As the saying goes, if one thought too much, one would end up in a hopeless situation.
If the knot was not resolved in time, it was very likely that the knot would lead to mental derangement.
However, from the looks of it, the knot in his heart had been completely resolved by his master.
Li Yao smiled awkwardly and said, "While my mind was in a mess, and I was ninety percent swallowed by the darkness, I suddenly remembered someone. I suddenly thought of someone. "
Fascinated, Jin Xinyue could not help but ask, "Who?"
"Ba Yanzhi."
Li Yao said, "The senior who created the demon race in the beginning. That person from forty thousand years ago … was a true cultivator! "
"Your father was right. He was a politician, and so were you. You were the same kind of people who were good at playing chess with the magnificent sea of stars and billions of creatures.
"But I'm not."
"I can't play such a grand game of chess, and I don't want to play it."
"Many times. I would rather consider myself as an ordinary person and view the problem from the perspective of thousands of ordinary people.
"After all. They were all human beings, not chess pieces!
"So, I simply jumped out of the mess. I wondered what 'Chaos' Ba Yanzhi would have chosen if it had been him.
"Forty thousand years ago, Ba Yanzhi chose to turn ordinary people into demons with the Holy Water of Kunlun only because he wanted the ordinary people to live a better, more stable, and more peaceful life in the troubled world.
"I remember that, in Ba Yanzhi's memory pieces, there was an ordinary person named 'Zhang Niuer'. The reason why he was willing to turn into a demon was that he wanted to feed his wife and children and build a small … home in a new world where there was no war.
"But aren't all the demons in the Blood Demon Sector the descendants of Ba Yanzhi and 'Zhang Niuer' today?
"Forty thousand years ago, they turned from human beings into demons for such a common wish. Forty thousand years later, don't their descendants have the right to turn from demons into human beings again and realize the wish?
"I've thought it through. So what if I lost the game with your father? My original intention when I became a Cultivator was to protect the ordinary people. Then, as long as I walked on the path, what did the insignificant victory or defeat matter?
"So, before you came, I had already beaten back the collective of negative emotions and made my choice!"
"I believe that Ba Yanzhi, Zhang Niuer, and the thousands of ordinary people who turned into demons forty thousand years ago would all agree with the choice if they were in heaven."
Jin Xinyue was both surprised and delighted. She asked excitedly, "Master, are you saying …"
Looking at his third disciple, Li Yao asked solemnly, "One last question. Do you consider yourself a demon or a Cultivator?"
Jin Xinyue bit her lips and thought for a moment. Then she replied firmly, "Although I have turned into the appearance of a human being, the mark in my heart can never be erased. I am a demon. I always will be."
"However …"
She smiled, with brilliance beaming out of her eyes. "Which law states that demons cannot become Cultivators and protect ordinary people?"
Li Yao smiled, too. He smashed his fist that was as swollen as a pig's foot and said, "Alright. I will fully support the Red Tide Plan and you to be the Speaker of the Federation a hundred years later!"
After he said that, he seemed to have thought of something. His laughter burst out like a flood that could not be contained at all. His swollen face was cramping nonstop, making him even more hilarious.
Jin Xinyue was dazed. She asked hesitantly, "Why are you laughing so hard, Master?"
"That's not it."
Li Yao laughed so hard that tears were flowing out of his eyes. Holding his belly, he said, "It suddenly occurred to me that your father and I have decided who the Speaker of the Federation a hundred years later would be after only a few words. It feels like … a decree."
Jin Xinyue scratched her head in confusion. "What — what's so funny about that?"
"Nothing is funny."
Li Yao covered his cheeks, which were hurting because of the laughter. His eyes became unpredictable as he mumbled, "I just remembered a place far, far away a long time ago."
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