However, when Nan Xian returned to the room, only Diao Yu was left inside. He was leaning against the table, listlessly fiddling with his pointed beak.
Several feathers had been plucked from its pointed beak. Glancing out of the corner of its eye, it saw Nan Xian and cried out as if seeing a savior, "My lady, save me! I'm going to die! Cough cough cough!"
Nan Xian stepped forward and freed Jianzui from Diao Yu's grasp. "Where's Ruizhu?"
Diao Yu gestured towards the back door of the hut, "She was just called away by someone who said there was a problem with the kiln for firing porcelain and she had to go and check it herself. She said she would be right back and asked us to wait a moment."
Although Nanxian was a little anxious, she understood the importance of firing the kiln to Ruizhu, so she had no choice but to suppress her anxiety and sit down to wait for her to return.
With a flick of her wrist, Diao Yu's palm immediately held a handful of melon seeds.
Nan Xian took it. "Hey, did you notice anything just now? Ruizhu, she—?"
Diao Yu shook his head. "She is indeed human, just with a stronger spirituality than ordinary people." He suddenly remembered something, pausing his sunflower seed-eating motion. "But—"
"Hmm? But what?" Nan Xian also stopped involuntarily.
Diao Yu tilted her head and pondered carefully, trying to dig out that blurry fragment from the depths of her memory, but ultimately to no avail, so she gave up. "I just feel that her aura is familiar, as if I have smelled it somewhere before. It must be the reincarnation of someone I knew in the past."
Nan Xian exclaimed in surprise, "You know the silly woman, and Ruizhu seems familiar too... I didn't realize you had so many friends in the human world!"
Diao Yu choked upon hearing this.
Diao Yu sighed silently: "That's because after you banished me from Bai Dui Cliff, I had nowhere to go and could only wander the human world..."
Recalling his miserable and lonely past, Diao Yu still felt bitter, but he dared not show it on his face. He raised his chin proudly and hummed twice.
"Of course! My lord, you haven't seen my true form yet. My human form is incredibly handsome! I'm so dashing and dignified that every young lady on the street throws flowers and handkerchiefs at me!"
Nan Xian turned her head to look at him, and after a while, she burst out laughing.
However, seeing Diao Yu with the tired, haggard, and weathered face of an ordinary man, uttering such arrogant and outrageous words, easily reminded her of a popular internet term from 2022—
"Ordinary male".
Diao Yu realized it himself. He froze, quickly raised his hand to cover his face, and hurriedly explained, "Ahhh, that's not true! My real body is a thousand times, ten thousand times more handsome than this!"
Nan Xian laughed even louder.
After laughing and joking around, the two of them silently ate some melon seeds for a while. Suddenly, Nan Xian remembered something and nudged Diao Yu with her elbow.
"Hey, let me ask you, you said before that the demon race has always been eyeing the human realm's territory, why is that?"
Diao Yu spat out a melon seed shell and said calmly, "We've had too many children; there's not enough room for them all."
Nan Xian paused for a second, somewhat incredulous at such a "simple" answer. "Huh? Just because of this?"
Isn't it because the dazzling world of the human realm is so captivating, while the demon realm is dark and devoid of anything, that it breaks down in jealousy?
Damn, those fantasy dramas have really fooled me!
"yes."
"So—nothing else? Like, the human world has things that the demon world doesn't?"
Diao Yu shook her head and explained, "The Heavenly Dao created the Four Realms, and each of the Four Realms is different. In modern terms, they each have their own rules for survival. For example, the human realm has relatively thin spiritual energy compared to the other two realms, making it only suitable for human survival and reproduction. Even gods cannot stay in the human realm for long, otherwise their spiritual energy will be absorbed by the human realm."
The same is true of the Demon Realm. There is not a trace of spiritual energy there; it is all demonic energy formed from resentment and hatred, and the demons cultivate by relying on this demonic energy.
If the four realms had remained undisturbed, all would have been peaceful. However, there are always those who thrive on chaos, dissatisfied with the status quo, and seek to encroach upon the territories of others. Initially, it was the conflict between the demon and monster races. Because many areas of the demon realm were very similar to the demon realm, some powerful individuals could live in both realms simultaneously. Thus, both wanted to claim the other's territory. However, the demon and monster races were evenly matched, and after hundreds of years of fighting, no victor had emerged. Therefore, the monsters turned their attention to the human realm.
Humans are the most vulnerable of the four realms. Most of them have no magical power and can be killed easily. However, the human realm is guarded by twelve guardian spirits, whose power is enough to flatten the entire demon realm. Therefore, the demons have never dared to make any rash moves.
Many years later, the newly appointed demon leader came up with some unknown method and secretly broke open a small gap at the border between the human and demon realms, then took the opportunity to send some demons into the human realm.
They don't kill in the human realm, nor do they use demonic energy. They disguise themselves as ordinary people, blending into the crowd and stirring up the evil thoughts deep within people's hearts in various ways—for example, if I have a big argument with you, and I'm very angry, even wanting to hit you, I won't do it because I have reason; the goodness deep within me prevents me from doing such a thing. But if someone keeps urging and provoking me in that moment, I will lose my reason, and my fist will fall and smash into you.
Nan Xian suddenly realized: "So... the demons took advantage of human evil to create chaos in the human world, and then took advantage of the chaos to fish in troubled waters?"
Diao Yu nodded. "That's right. There's no real difference between human evil and demonic evil. When human evil accumulates to a certain extent, it turns into resentment and hatred."
“And demonic energy is composed of these.” Nan Xian lowered her head thoughtfully and murmured softly.
"When there are more evil people than good people, the human world will become a paradise for devils."
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