Chapter 142 The God in the High Priest’s Heart
"The Demon Race needs a lot of energy to survive. Even if we obtain a new planet, the energy there will be exhausted in a hundred to a thousand years."
"Alas! We are a race abandoned by the gods. Apart from constantly eroding and plundering new planets, we can only endure hunger and eke out a living by sleeping," the high priest sighed.
"Have you never tried planting plants and raising animals to improve the soil and environment?" Feather Fan asked.
"Our body is a combination of plants and animals, and other plants and animals are energy that we can absorb."
"Why should we plant plants and raise animals, letting them take away our precious energy?" the high priest asked.
Feather Fan and the others: ...
So that's why they've been plundering everywhere like savages.
Because they simply don't understand that planting and raising livestock can create an ecosystem.
With the existence of this ecosystem, the planet can absorb more light energy from the star, thus sustaining the energy needed for life on the planet.
Whenever the Fine Demons arrive at a planet, they use the corrosive gray mist and the powerful purple demons to lead their lower-ranking Fine Demons to quickly conquer that planet.
Then, these insatiable demons opened their bellies and devoured the energy here like gluttons.
They exterminated all the plants and animals, and drained the soil of nutrients and water, so the planet quickly became a wasteland.
They didn't even have the time or opportunity to learn systematic basic scientific and technological knowledge, so they didn't understand that the first priority for survival is to protect the environment.
It's really not easy to make an illiterate person understand these principles, so Yu Shan entrusted this task to Mao Li.
Mao Li created simple and easy-to-understand illustrated tutorials, along with easy-to-understand audio tutorials.
After ten days of intense indoctrination, the high priest finally understood.
Before Yushan could come to see him again, he humbly asked Bo Yi to pass on a message, hoping to talk to Yushan again.
"Goddess of the Feather Fan, I am willing to dedicate everything I have to you. I swear in the name of our ancestors, the Fine Demon Clan, that I will never betray you!"
Upon seeing the feather fan, the high priest prostrated himself on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly before it; this was the most humble way he had ever seen humans express respect.
"Because of your destruction, the Heavenly Dao here has lost its control over all living beings."
Therefore, your vow has no binding force.
"As enemies who were fighting to the death not long ago, you should find a more credible way to make my loyalty to you absolutely binding," Yu Shan said calmly.
She made the high priest understand the way of survival, not to hear his cheap promises, nor because she was soft-hearted.
She simply wanted to end the war with the Demon Clan without bloodshed.
Given the current situation, the human race would have to pay a heavy price to completely subdue the Ximo people hidden deep within the Qiyan Mountains.
The Demon Clan sent several Blue Demons as messengers, requesting the release of their High Priest and promising to collectively evacuate the Misty Heaven if he was released.
However, the humans do not trust them, so a consensus has not yet been reached.
Feather Fan worried that once their patience was exceeded, those guys might launch a fierce counterattack, then completely abandon the High Priest and flee the continent.
She didn't want to see the tragedy of Five Elements City again, so what she needed to do was to completely control the High Priest and then let him go back.
“Our Demon Clan has an ancient inheritance contract. Once the contract is formed, my soul will be completely under your control.”
"To gain your trust, please bring a blue demon here, and find one of your cultivators. I can complete this soul contract in person," the high priest said.
He made this decision because when he took over as high priest, he heard stories from his predecessor.
It is said that a prophet of their Fine Demon Clan once foretold that when a Purple Demon is born in their ancestral land, he will become the High Priest and meet a god who will lead his people toward the light.
Over the millennia, many minor demons have indeed been born in the ancestral land, but none of them are the lowest-ranking yellow demons.
Most of these little yellow demons will die young, and only a few will grow up in such harsh conditions and leave their ancestral lands to follow the high priest on his conquests of the north and south, seizing new continents.
After the former high priest learned of this secret passed down by word of mouth, he simply did not believe that a purple demon could be born in the ancestral land.
As a result, he was born unexpectedly.
The former high priest had no intention of properly training him, because the position of high priest of the demon race was usually filled by the previous high priest who was about to die or died on the battlefield, and then all the purple demons would compete for the position.
Since he is the child prophesied to succeed the high priest, his growth means his own death.
However, he dared not disobey the legacy of his ancestors, so he could only turn a blind eye and let the little purple demon fend for itself.
However, Little Purple Demon grew stronger day by day in the harsh ancestral land. In the end, the former high priest had no choice but to follow the guidance of fate, take him away from the ancestral land, and carefully nurture him.
He quickly demonstrated his exceptional combat prowess and intelligence.
Even though the former high priest was unwilling to relinquish power, he gradually became the backbone of the people.
Of course, out of gratitude for his guidance, Little Purple Demon had no intention of usurping power. It wasn't until the former High Priest was old and dying that she told him these things and expressed her deep apologies.
After assuming the position of High Priest, the current High Priest has led his people in battles with great success.
But even after he was locked in the laboratory, he still didn't encounter the so-called god in the tradition.
He felt that the prophet must be wrong; their demon race could only rely on their own desperate plundering, otherwise they would only suffer from hunger.
However, when he was awakened from his slumber that day and met Yu Shan, she only asked him two questions before sending him a video tutorial.
This was the first time in his life that the high priest had seen such a tutorial. He was amazed by this learning method, so he watched the video with extra care.
Through this tutorial, he finally understood.
The Demon Clan has always prided themselves on having gained sentience and possessing a powerful ability to devour, making them invincible.
It turns out they were no different from ordinary wild beasts that lacked intelligence; they never understood that the environment was the most important factor determining their survival.
It turns out that survival requires not plunder, but giving.
You must first work hard to protect the environment you live in, and then nature will give you a rich reward so that your descendants can continue for generations to come.
Plunder and encroachment can only delay the death of the tribespeople; they cannot allow all of them to live a paradise-like life of plenty and peace.
The high priest felt as if his heart had been illuminated by sunlight; he knew he had finally found the prophesied god.
He must seize this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to express his utmost loyalty to God.
He was willing to offer his soul to her, and even the souls of every one of his people, if she so desired.
Suddenly, Feather Fan sensed a thick ray of golden light flowing out of the High Priest's body and entering her.
Bo Yiyan was startled and roared, "Old man, what did you do to the feather fan?"
"Don't worry, I just received the purest and most profound power of faith from the High Priest," Feather Fan said with a smile.
With this power of faith, her doubts about the high priest completely disappeared.
For those who practice witchcraft, the power of faith is the most reliable way to determine a person's loyalty.
Because the other party may submit for profit, or even sell themselves into slavery, but the power of faith comes from the heart and cannot be faked.
Only those who trust you wholeheartedly can offer the power of their faith.
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