Attitude Towards One's Creations

At this moment, Jiang Yifei, the patriarch of the Jiang Family standing nearby, witnessed Fang Zheng's actions. After carefully considering his words, he cupped his hands and asked:

"Senior Fang Zheng, this junior, Jiang Yifei, presumes to ask, why do you need to confirm if they can understand you? Could you tell us the reason? Perhaps we can be of assistance."

"After all, Senior Fang Zheng, you don't seem to be able to communicate using Divine Sense, only through ordinary speech, correct?"

Fang Zheng glanced at Jiang Yifei's sincere expression and replied, "That's right. While I can summon them out of thin air using the Monster Spawner, if they are fundamentally no different from the Flood Dragons in this Cultivation World…"

Jiang Yifei listened to Fang Zheng's words, his brow furrowing slightly.

He had only been called over temporarily and hadn't had time to gather much information.

Although he was the current patriarch of the Jiang Family and his bloodline had awakened, making him look exactly like the Hengyu Great Emperor, his strength was still too weak. He had only reached the Saint King realm and had not been informed of the great secret concerning the revival of ancestors by the Hengyu Furnace Deity!

He listened to Fang Zheng's words, secretly pondering in his heart: Summoned out of thin air? And this Cultivation World, 'this' one? Could it be that this being named Fang Zheng is not from the outer starry sky, but from another world entirely, or even the Immortal Realm!

Fang Zheng continued, "The Flood Dragons in this world should be intelligent beings, right? Generally speaking, if they can cultivate, they should also be able to transform into human form."

Jiang Wen nodded, "That's right. The human form is naturally close to the Dao. Among the countless races in the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, any who embark on the path of cultivation will mostly transform into human form to facilitate their enlightenment."

Fang Zheng struggled, "If the ones I summon are also intelligent beings like the Flood Dragons of this world, then what am I, the one who brought them into existence?"

"Am I their creator? Or their parent?"

"Can I really make them appear?"

"What kind of attitude should I have towards them?"

Looking at the Flood Dragons on the table, who were continuously roaring, their angry cries mixed with a sense of fear and despair, Fang Zheng's heart was filled with complex emotions.

He looked at the three people in front of him, who remained silent, and asked, "In your Cultivation World, Flood Dragons should be creatures full of treasures, right?"

"Whether it's stewing their flesh and blood, or skinning them to make weapons and equipment, it should be very useful, shouldn't it?"

"A Flood Dragon over 1000 kilometers long, if one could refine it into a magic artifact using cultivation and artifact refining techniques, it should be very powerful, right?"

Jiang Yifei glanced at the Flood Dragons on the table, a peculiar thought arising in his heart, and replied, "Indeed, among the demon race, transforming into a dragon is an ancient and supreme path. Any demon with a certain amount of dragon blood can continuously advance along this path."

"Legend has it that the Demon Emperor Xue Yueqing, who once shook the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, was originally just an ordinary snow rabbit. Through continuous cultivation, she advanced along the path of dragon transformation, her bloodline eventually purifying, and she became a silver true dragon."

"And Flood Dragons born with an extraordinary purity of bloodline are considered treasures from head to tail, no matter where they are."

"The flesh and blood of Flood Dragons can be used to refine pills, and their bones, skin, and membranes are top-tier refining materials. Among them, the most precious is the dragon pearl, which is an excellent material for refining pills, artifacts, or setting up formations."

"However, the purer the bloodline, the stronger the talent and often the stronger the strength, and the higher their status among the demon race."

Jiang Yifei spoke slowly, transforming the blood and fire of ancient eons into plain words.

"But, Flood Dragons are merely a relatively powerful type of demon."

"Throughout history, the conflict between humans and demons has never ceased. Humans skinning and refining demons into artifacts and pills, or demons viewing humans as food, is a common occurrence in the Big Dipper, and even throughout the entire universe's cultivation world."

"Is that so…" Although Fang Zheng had been mentally prepared for such an answer, a wave of nausea still washed over him.

In the past, after finishing his homework after school, he would read novels and watch anime, often seeing conflicts between different races in various works.

Things like vampires eating people, monsters eating people, artificial intelligence killing people, or humans killing vampires, killing monsters, resisting artificial intelligence, and so on.

When reading novels or watching anime, Fang Zheng felt nothing about these things, only thinking that the fighting wasn't intense enough and they should be beating each other to a pulp.

But now, Fang Zheng had truly transmigrated.

Transmigrated into this cruel world.

Just yesterday, while talking to Taiyin on the Immortal Ascension Road, Taiyin had roughly recounted his past experiences of being weak, gradually rising, and eventually proving his Dao and becoming an Emperor.

Fang Zheng learned about the history of the so-called Primordial Era, where countless humans in the entire starry sky were reduced to livestock by powerful alien races, skinned for food, and had their blood and souls extracted for refining materials.

At that time, Fang Zheng felt very uncomfortable about the so-called history described by Taiyin.

Fang Zheng felt that although they were different races, they could all transform into human form and possessed intelligence.

Couldn't everyone just sit down together and live in peace?

Why could demons, so-called ancient races, and even humans, without any psychological pressure, skin and refine beings that were also intelligent creatures into magic treasures and elixirs, and stew their meat into delicacies?

Fang Zheng looked at the Flood Dragons on the table, then turned to Jiang Wen and said, "Grandpa Jiang Wen, could I trouble you? Please use your Divine Sense sound transmission to relay my next words to them."

Jiang Wen nodded.

Fang Zheng took a deep breath in his heart and said, "I've already tested it. For the various creatures in your Cultivation World, as long as they can lay eggs, I can turn their eggs into my Spawn Eggs."

"This way, no matter how difficult it is for them to hatch and grow normally, I can summon as many as I want."

"If the ones summoned by Spawn Eggs or Monster Spawners are just mindless beasts, then I can completely treat them as tools, as toys, without any pressure."

"I can freely summon them to play with, kill them, and use them for beast fights."

"But if the ones summoned are intelligent like normal creatures, then I'm a bit hesitant to let them appear."

"If they die after appearing, I will feel guilty."

"If they have a hard time after appearing, I will also feel guilty."

"If they have intelligence and kill someone, I'll feel as if I killed them myself, and it will make me very uncomfortable."

"I don't want to bear responsibility, but I feel that if one wants to bring an intelligent life into this world, one must have at least basic respect for them, take responsibility, and help them live a better, happier life, rather than being casually skinned, refined into pills, or stewed and eaten…"

Looking at the Flood Dragons on the table, whose movements were gradually ceasing, Fang Zheng continued, "Looking at them now, they seem to lack intelligence, but I'm worried that they simply can't understand what I'm saying."

"Perhaps they've just been created, and although they are intelligent beings, no one has taught them, so they can't speak yet, like newborns."

"If I can't truly confirm their state, I really can't feel at ease."