Wisdom Tree

"Wait, this is the most crucial part. You can't just gloss over it as though you're telling a fairy tale!"

Meng Chao sharply seized on the key point. "You cooperated with the mon—'spirit beasts' to wipe out powerful humans of your own kind?"

"That's right."

Gu Ling nodded heavily and said as if it were only natural, "Is there a problem?"

"Of course there's a problem. Every single word here is a huge problem."

Meng Chao once again fought down the urge to leap to his feet. "How could humans cooperate with spirit beasts?"

"Why not? We never had any grudge against spirit beasts to begin with. Since they're called 'spirit beasts,' they've naturally awakened a certain degree of intelligence. They know right from wrong, can communicate, and can weigh the gains and losses together with us, can't they?"

Gu Ling earnestly analyzed the matter for Meng Chao. "Look, ordinary people and low-to-mid-level powerful humans never had any fundamental conflict with spirit beasts. After all, our population is small. As long as we curb our greedy nature and only eat some melons, fruits, pears, and peaches every day, maybe catch a few fish from Peach Blossom Stream or hunt a few low-level spirit beasts in the jungle, we won't harm this vast, boundless forest at all, nor will we harm the incomparably powerful high-level spirit beasts.

"So why must we insist on becoming enemies with them?"

"But spirit beasts eat people." Meng Chao's expression darkened.

"Spirit beasts don't even like eating people!"

Gu Ling snorted and retorted, "Humans are small to begin with, produce far too little meat, and take an awfully long time to grow. We simply aren't quality ingredients.

"Besides, humans possess intelligence. We know how to make all kinds of terrifying weapons and use plenty of sinister,