Wang Yao was already somewhat distrustful of the villagers of Shanxia Village, and when Feng Huan asked him about it again, he told Li Shishi and Feng Huan the whole story about the Demon Realm City Sacrifice, hoping they could help take care of them when they returned to Shanxia Village.
“Eternal Night City, Brocade City, and Pengqiu City, where this village is located, belong to different demon realms, yet they are all holding city sacrifices. This shows that the scale of the city sacrifices in the demon realm is indeed quite large. I am very worried about the villagers of the village at the foot of the mountain. They have lived in a remote corner for many years and have no idea about the actual situation of the city sacrifices.”
“If you see them in the future, it would be best to help them hide quickly. If they can avoid the registration, they will most likely be able to avoid the city sacrifice. We are too weak to stop the city sacrifice, but we should try our best to save a few villagers,” Wang Yao said in conclusion.
"You're saying the city festival of Eternal Night City is presided over by a foreign god in a white robe?" Li Shishi asked sternly after hearing Wang Yao's words.
“Yes, it seems to be a foreign god named something like Saruman.” Wang Yao nodded.
“Saruman?” Li Shishi gasped, repeating the name of the foreign god. She and Feng Huan exchanged a look of horror.
"What? You know this foreign god?" Wang Yao asked in confusion.
“We have heard of a foreign god named Saruman, known in the ocean world as the White-Robed Witch. His greatest skill is puppetry. The renowned master of spirits you met in the underworld, Robin, is his disciple,” Li Shishi said slowly.
"Robin... Robin is actually Saruman's disciple?" Wang Yao stared in astonishment.
“Saruman is a legendary figure in the Ocean Realm, proficient in the six major puppetry techniques. The spirit you encountered was a twin puppet, one of the six major puppetry techniques. The city priest's transformation is more like a flesh and blood puppet. Saruman rarely shows himself, but whenever he does, he causes a bloodbath.”
"Robin's puppetry skills are said to be only at the level of Twin Puppets and Corpse Puppets, which are barely passable. He is still far from being as good as Saruman. I have long heard that he and his disciple are going to wreak havoc on the six realms together. Now it seems that Saruman has indeed come to the Demon Realm. This matter is really not to be underestimated." Feng Huan frowned and said from the side.
Wang Yao nodded silently. It turned out that Robin, the culprit of the Great Calamity of Corpse Qi in the Underworld, was actually a disciple of the white-robed sorcerer Saruman. Saruman must be the founder of puppetry in the Ocean Realm. With him personally taking action, the trouble would indeed be considerable.
"There's something I don't understand. Could someone from your Xiankou group explain it to me?" Wang Yao asked immediately upon thinking of this.
"If there's anything you don't understand, just ask," Li Shishi nodded hurriedly.
"I just don't understand, if the Western Realm wants to overthrow our Six Realms, what other methods could they use? Logically speaking, shouldn't there be Western gods in the Western Realm who are more powerful than this Sa? Why is it this Sa master and his disciples who are coming to the Six Realms to cause us trouble?"
"Do they have some personal grudges against our Six Realms? Could it be true, as the Heavenly Court says, that all of this is just the personal behavior of Saruman and Robin, and that the Ocean Realm actually wants to coexist peacefully with our Six Realms?" Wang Yao asked, frowning.
"What time is it? How can you still be so naive? Think about it, if the Foreign Realm and our Six Realms were to fight each other with real swords, who would come out on top?" Feng Huan raised his eyebrows and looked at Wang Yao with dissatisfaction.
"But what if all the fools in our six realms become Saruman's puppets? That would mean infighting within our six realms, and the Western God might even make sarcastic remarks from the sidelines. It would be like if a zombie apocalypse occurred in the human realm, and the Western God accused the human realm of isolating zombie apocalypse patients as a violation of human rights."
"When the Heavenly Court quelled the rebellion in the Demon Realm, the Foreign Realm came to criticize the Heavenly Court for being autocratic and undemocratic. The Great Calamity of Corpse Qi in the Underworld seized upon the Foreign Realm's weakness, but the Foreign Realm shifted all the blame to Robin, claiming it was his personal behavior and had nothing to do with them, thus washing their hands of the matter completely."
"Think about it, the Western Realm sends Saruman and his disciples here, causing chaos in the Six Realms. The Western Realm just watches the show from the sidelines, with minimal cost and enormous benefits. Isn't this the most beneficial way for the Western Realm to overthrow the Six Realms?" Feng Huan asked angrily.
“Feng Xian is right. In the current situation, there are many powerful people in our Six Realms. The Ocean Realm will not gain any advantage by going to war with us. But it’s different if Saruman and his disciples take action. They can use materials locally in the Six Realms to create a large number of puppets.”
"The Ocean Realm's conspiracy is to use the power of the Six Realms to weaken them. Eventually, as the strength of both sides diminishes, the Ocean Realm will seize the opportunity to overthrow the Heavenly Court. We, the Immortal Mouth Group, saw through this long ago, which is why we are so wary of Saruman and his ilk," Li Shishi added.
“Since the foreign powers can play these underhanded tricks on us, don’t we have a puppet master among us who can also cause a scene in the foreign powers? We can’t just take the beating without fighting back, can we?” After hearing Li Shishi’s words, Wang Yao was even more puzzled.
"You've finally figured it out! Our Immortal Mouth Group had the same idea, but the Heavenly Court wouldn't listen to us. As soon as we mentioned causing trouble for foreigners, the higher-ups would immediately jump out to stop us, and they always preach about seeking common ground while reserving differences and friendly exchanges. I suspect they've all become puppets of that Sassa!"
"Otherwise, how could this happen? It's obvious that the foreign powers have ulterior motives, but they turn a blind eye and a deaf ear. Those bastards have already brandished their knives, and we're still foolishly signing some cooperation agreement with them, doing something as stupid as opening our chests wide and letting them stab us in the back!"
Feng Huan nodded repeatedly upon hearing this.
"There's another point: we're indeed inferior to them in puppetry. The most skilled puppetry master in the Six Realms is Master Lu from the God Realm. In the past, there were even voices in the Heavenly Court suggesting that Master Lu be promoted to the ranks of immortals, but now there's not even a mention of it."
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