Sowing Discord with Evil Words

The sight of humans and beasts exchanging places made Meng Chao's skin crawl.

He thought of Gao Ye, the human who had cast his soul into the body of a super Giant Sandworm and become the demon god "Earthquake."

More Peach Blossom Paradise Town residents surged in from behind like a rising tide.

Like Gu Ling, they carried or hauled large quantities of industrial products from the Earth Era.

Most of them were Earth-made clothes, or phones and computers that had long since broken down and could no longer be powered on.

Others drove monsters that carried or dragged pitch-black engines behind them.

Judging by the pockmarked scars on the engines, people had already vented their rage upon these "evil technologies" before dragging them here.

Meng Chao also saw several burly men holding several plastic mannequins high overhead.

The plastic dolls were all dressed in suits and ties, with numerous phones and computers tied to their bodies like ugly suits of armor.

Their faces had also been painted with powder and rouge, bearing expressions that mingled greed, anxiety, and confusion.

Others used long-expired lipstick to draw bright red crosses over the plastic dolls' faces.

When the strong men finally carried the plastic dolls beneath the Wisdom Tree and planted them amid its tangled roots and vines, many Peach Blossom Paradise Town residents angrily stepped forward and spat on them.

Meng Chao guessed that these plastic dolls symbolized the "evil Earthlings."

Spitting on them meant drawing a line in the sand against Earth Civilization, even swearing irreconcilable enmity with it.

The act of punishing evil idols at a celebration and praying for good fortune in the coming year was a common ritual in many primitive and medieval civilizations.

Peach Blossom Paradise Town, which had originated from modern Earth, had already embarked