Chapter 273 What is the Demonic Path (Part 1)
The Blood River Demon Lord’s breathing stagnated.
He unconsciously knelt down with a thud, kowtowed respectfully to the person in front of him, and performed the etiquette of a disciple.
"Minor cultivator Xu Shiqing, I beg Your Majesty to give me some guidance."
Lu Wenwu asked with great interest: "So, do you want to become a demon, or a demon cultivator?"
The Blood River Demon Lord was slightly stunned.
Aren't these two feelings the same thing?
Lu Wenwu saw his confusion and said, "Demon cultivators are demon cultivators. To put it bluntly, they are still cultivators who have practiced the immortal way, but their behavior is close to that of demons."
"Even if you can transcend the tribulation and ascend to become a so-called immortal demon, do you think that this is a demon? You are wrong. You are still an immortal."
"Let me ask you, why do you want to become an immortal? Why do you want to cultivate magic?"
"For eternal life, for freedom." The Blood River Demon Lord answered without hesitation.
This is a very standard answer. In the world of immortal cultivation, if you ask this kind of question, nine hundred and ninety-nine out of a thousand will give this answer.
Lu Wenwu asked again, "Then do you think you'll be free after becoming an immortal? The immortal world also has its own heavenly court, which has its own rules, and immortals also have their own realms of cultivation. Do you think that once you ascend, you'll be able to punch the Jade Emperor, trample on the Lord of Mount Tai, transcend the Three Realms, and transcend the Five Elements?"
The Blood River Demon Lord looked confused.
He knew every word Lu Wenwu said.
But when you put them together, why doesn't he understand?
For the first time, the great master of magic who had been a genius for thousands of years felt that his comprehension might be quite poor.
Lu Wenwu shook his head slightly. "Being an Immortal is merely freedom within the bounds of the rules, yet it is still bound by human nature. Haven't you seen the so-called ruthless sword immortals still fight for justice? If they were truly ruthless, why would they engage in such useless work?"
"Demons are the ultimate freedom and ease achieved after casting aside all the shackles imposed on humans, all the morals and ethics of all intelligent creatures, and all the rules of the universe."
"It's nothing else, just two words - rules."
"Those who follow order are immortals."
"Those without order are demons."
"Absolute neutrality is the way of heaven."
The Blood River Demon Lord was scratching his head anxiously.
He felt that he had a vague understanding, but it was like scratching an itch through a shoe, and he could not grasp the faint flash of inspiration at all.
It's nothing, what Lu Wenwu said was a bit too lofty.
This is somewhat difficult to understand for a demon cultivator who has not received modern philosophical education.
The Blood River Demon Lord has been trying very hard to understand the Blue Star vocabulary that Lu Wenwu translated into the language of the immortal world, but there is still a little gap.
"A rotten tree cannot be carved." Lu Wenwu sighed. "These concepts may be a bit abstract to you, so let's start with the concrete aspects."
"Given your current situation, the possibility of becoming a true demon is slim. However, you have already made the first steps on the path of demon cultivation within the scope of the immortal way, and are heading in the right direction."
"You see, you have realized the importance of the number of mortals and have begun to consciously keep and control the number of mortals in order to strengthen the common resources of the demonic practitioners."
"But have you ever thought that you haven't done this to the extreme?"
"Extreme?"
The Blood River Demon Lord couldn't help but scratch his messy blood-red hair.
"Extreme."
Lu Wenwu nodded.
"Your current utilization rate of human resources is too low, and your methods of cultivating reserve materials are too backward. You are even worse than the people in those mortal countries who raise pigs."
"Of course, this isn't just your problem; it's the problem of all demonic cultivators. Ultimately, you're still a branch of the immortal path, still thinking with a 'human' mindset. You can't be considered true demonic cultivators."
"Take the Ten Thousand Souls Banner as an example. Your ritual involves raising enough mortals, fattening them up, and then killing them. Kill roughly everyone in a county, collect their souls and resentment, and refine ten thousand resentful souls to store in the banner."
"Actually, this is completely wrong and wasteful. This backward approach stems from your lack of understanding of the soul, or perhaps a habitual neglect of the past over the present."
"What is the core of the Ten Thousand Souls Banner? It's the soul. What does a fat and strong body have to do with a weak soul? The soul is formed the moment the embryo is fully developed. Without cultivation, the power and breadth of information that the soul can carry will not change."
"Therefore, whether the Ten Thousand Souls Banner uses the soul of an infant, an adult, an old man, or even the soul of a demon beast, there will be no difference in its power."
"Then the correct method would be to directly extract the infant's soul and refine it. Raising them until they are fifteen or sixteen is a complete waste of resources. Furthermore, this kind of soul is still a blank slate, so it can be cultivated into a ghost baby through the Yin Gathering Land."
"Once the Ten Thousand Souls Ghost Banner refined in this way is activated, a chilling wind howls and resentment rises to the sky. Isn't this much more powerful than the ordinary Ten Thousand Souls Banner you spent more than ten years to refine?"
"In terms of material farming, you've simply switched from unsupervised free-range farming to managed free-range farming, but that hasn't solved the fundamental problem. From a productivity perspective, if you let a cultivator farm, one person would do the equivalent of thousands of mortals!"
"Then the correct approach would be to manage them in batches, like livestock. The women would be used as reproductive machines, and the men would be used as sowing machines. After sowing successfully once a year, they would be sent to the fields to help with farming."
"Good-looking ones can be sown several times and selectively bred to iterate the quality of the offspring and replace the junk and inferior genes."
"Any problems that arise with mortals during pregnancy should be recorded by the Hehuan Sect. They can simply be solved by taking inferior elixirs. These mothers start giving birth around the age of fourteen, so even if they die at thirty, they can still contribute sixteen times the population. It's worth it."
"Place the mother's fertility base in a place where Yin gathers. Use the Hehuan Sect's elixirs to make the mother pregnant during the Yin year, Yin month, Yin day, Yin hour, and Yin moment. Use formations to draw Yin Sha into the body during the gestation process. Then we can artificially cultivate extremely Yin bodies in large quantities. This kind of physique is top-notch whether it is used as a cauldron or for magic cultivation."
"Of course, this method wastes the mother body a bit. From a cost-effective point of view, you can't make too many at once. If you make too many, you won't be able to use them all or maintain them. You can't refine them all into magical instruments. That would be a bit too extravagant."
"If we build a normal production line composed of one million reproductive mothers, we can produce one hundred Ten Thousand Soul Banners every year. And to feed a mere two million mortals, do you think that's difficult? Your Blood Refining Demon Sect can do it all by itself."
"After normal babies are born, they are directly screened. Those with spiritual roots are selected and sent to the sect for cultivation. Those without spiritual roots but with excellent souls and bodies are cultivated as the next generation of breeding bodies and mother bodies to expand the breeding scale. The rest are consumables."
"As for the mother bodies and breeding bodies, when their functions decline, pick out the good-looking ones and sell them to the Hehuan Sect or the Huanxi Chan Sect. As for the rest, you can kill them and accumulate the bloody evil energy. Collect the blood for yourselves and sell the resentment to the Desire Demon Sect."
"Strip off the flesh and sell it to the Gluttonous Blood Demon Sect, remove the bones and sell them to the Corpse Puppet Sect or the White Bone Demon Sect, trade the internal organs with the Demonic Beasts or the Multifaceted Demon Sect, and separate the eyeballs and take them to the Ten Thousand Eyes Sect. They will definitely give a good price."
"The remaining discarded flesh and blood that no one wants can be sold to the Corpse Bone Pill Sect. They should need these as waste materials to stimulate the growth of their blood spirit fields."
"Oh yes, you can also consider using the uterus and reproductive system that were separated from the mother's body."
"We should go find the Multifaceted Demon Sect, which specializes in human body modification and grafting, and see if they can design a system that allows the uterus to survive on its own as a true reproductive machine. This way, fewer resources will be consumed and more intervention will be possible."
"If we can achieve artificial adjustment during the offspring's gestation process, we can achieve targeted cultivation. For example, if the Ten Thousand Eyes Sect needs a lot of eyes, we can try to cultivate offspring with dozens of eyes, and so on."
"The righteous side is fine, but your demonic side's ability to integrate resources is truly appalling. Win-win cooperation is the key to progress. You're completely disunited, so how can you even dream of becoming an immortal?"
"If the Demonic Path wants to progress, it must understand: cost reduction and efficiency improvement, supply chain cooperation, monopolization of technological resources, and the cultivation of industrialized thinking. If you don't understand these, you will sooner or later be completely wiped out by the Righteous Path."
"Huh? Why do you look like that?"
Lu Wenwu said a lot of things in a flash, and when he turned around, he saw the Blood River Demon Lord kneeling there sweating profusely, with cold sweat on his forehead, and his eyes switching back and forth between fanaticism and fear.
The enthusiasm is because Lu Wenwu's ideas are really outrageous.
If this method is continued, the speed at which the evil path will grow will be unimaginable to the righteous path.
If all the mortals within the range of the Demonic Path were raised in this way, within a few years, he would be able to condense a sea of blood, and even refine the legendary Yinming Fallen Heaven Creation Flag, which required tens of thousands of ghost babies and an extremely yin body to have a chance of being created!
There is hope for ascension!
Fear is because
Lu Wenwu's behavior is no longer challenging the moral bottom line of mankind. It is completely changing the development path of mortals since ancient times. It is completely against the way of heaven!
Challenge the rules of heaven!
If you ask the Blood River Demon Lord to challenge the moral bottom line of mankind, he still has the courage to do so.
After all, he has always done this, but his ideas are not as outrageous as Lu Wenwu's.
But you let him challenge the rules of heaven?
He really doesn't have the courage.
Even though the world of immortal cultivation always talks about going against the will of heaven, how many people actually dare to go against the will of heaven?
Do you think you are defying heaven just by surviving a disaster?
Stop joking, buddy. Isn’t thunder tribulation also a part of the rules of heaven?
Isn’t the improvement in cultivation after crossing over also a part of the rules of heaven?
Otherwise, the heavenly laws directly stipulate that one's soul will be shattered and one will die suddenly within ten seconds after passing the tribulation. Do you think there are still people who dare to practice immortal cultivation while shouting the slogan of "defying heaven"?
Lu Wenwu is completely different.
On the surface, everything seems to be going according to the rules.
But if you think about it carefully, this is no longer going against the will of heaven in the conventional sense, it is directly violating the laws of natural development!
This is to declare war on the Heavenly Dao with real weapons!
The Blood River Demon Lord really doesn't dare.
Now he seemed to finally understand vaguely what "demon" was.
Those who are not bound by any rules and do whatever they want are demons.
This is probably the true meaning of the magic way.
It's completely against the will of heaven.
This is not something that can be dismissed with the Confucian excuse of "going against the laws of nature and human ethics".
This is really going against the will of heaven.
"You seem very scared?" Lu Wenwu asked with interest. "Weren't you just now looking like you were ready to die if you heard the truth in the morning?"
Blood River Demon Lord's face was covered in sweat, and he smiled bitterly and said, "Your Majesty, what you described is really too shocking. Some of me, a small cultivator, is not very smart and can't adapt to it for a while."
"Is this considered shocking? It seems your ability to accept things needs improvement. This is just putting some things out in the open, that's all."
Lu Wenwu shrugged.
"Cannibalism has been the norm throughout history, both in China and abroad. Survival of the fittest, winner takes all, this is an unchanging truth from ancient times. I think as a Demon Lord, you should be able to understand this to some extent."
“I still understand.”
The Demon Lord of the Blood River, with sweat all over his head, hesitated and his throat was dry.
"But this... this... this is completely against the will of heaven. And this method is too extreme."
The Blood River Demon Lord is a bit stuck.
He racked his brains but still couldn't find a way to describe Lu Wenwu's actions.
If it's simple and rough
This is so damn inhumane.
Looking back at his actions when he was young, the Blood River Demon Lord believed that compared with what Lu Wenwu described, he was simply a moral saint.
I was just simply killing people.
No wonder he can become the Dragon Emperor. I am just a small king of magic.
Or the kind that is not actually recognized by everyone.
Lu Wenwu, a man who scares even the Demon Lord.jpg
"You, the Demon Lord, are still too young, and the title is a bit unworthy of you." Lu Wenwu shook his head and sighed, "If killing many people and being powerful is enough to be considered a Demon Lord, then Xiaoxi would have already achieved the Golden Immortal of the Demon Dao."
The Blood River Demon Lord didn't know who the Xiaoxi he was talking about was, but he still lowered his head in shame.
Lu Wenwu continued, "Compared to what I just told you, the explicit way of eating people and spitting out some bones, eating people without spitting out bones is the real bloody, cruel and brutal way."
"It's like an invisible knife cutting through you, a dark quagmire created by the entire environment. Everyone is swept along by this environment, ultimately devoured by those at the top."
"It was utter despair, absolute powerlessness. From birth to death, facing this hopeless reality day in and day out, yet without any means of resistance, even death seemed like a luxury."
"At this time, the resentment and despair that group consciousness can spawn are far beyond what your current world of immortal cultivation can produce."
"Can you imagine a world like this?"
(End of this chapter)
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