"Xue'er, do you think this person... this guy's words are reliable? Chosen One of Destiny, the God Realm suppressing Soul Beasts... He makes it sound real, but there's no evidence, no way to prove it... I don't even know whether I should believe him."
Zhong Kui: I can't do anything either! (ﾉД`)
Zhong Kui had heard what the Ice Empress said as well, but what he said was indeed the truth.
The God Realm suppressed Soul Beasts because they feared the Dragon God. That was why they had always oppressed Soul Beasts, afraid that another top-tier powerhouse would emerge and overthrow their rule over the God Realm. To put it bluntly, they bullied the weak and feared the strong.
Especially now that Tang San was in charge. Tang San wanted to turn the entire Douluo Continent into his backyard and transform the whole God Realm into the Tang Clan's God Realm.
This was also where Zhong Kui would inevitably clash with Tang San.
Zhong Kui's interests differed from those of the Tang Clan. At the very least, Zhong Kui did not want Tang San to turn Douluo Continent into the Tang Clan's backyard, nor did he want the God Realm to become the Tang Clan's one-man domain.
In truth, Zhong Kui was not hostile toward everyone in the God Realm.
He merely hoped to change Douluo Continent and change the God Realm, at least allowing this world to develop in the direction he wanted.
For example, allowing Soul Beasts to become gods and making the pie bigger.
Zhong Kui felt that if matters could be discussed properly and problems could be resolved, there was no need for him and the God Realm to stand on opposing sides.
If the God Realm did not forbid Soul Beasts from becoming gods while it expanded, then everything could be discussed properly. And if the Destruction God King was willing to negotiate and did not discriminate against Soul Beasts and beastkind, then the problem could certainly be solved.
But the problem was that they would never agree. Their values differed. Because of the Dragon God, the Destruction God King would never allow another Dragon God to appear, so he chose to abolish the possibility of Soul Beasts becoming gods. It was utterly shameless.
By that logic, if humanity produced a traitor, would humans then be barred from becoming gods as well?
So Destruction's brain was simply broken. Though he did it for the God Realm's development, his way of thinking was not even as advanced as that of an ordinary modern person from Zhong Kui's original world.
Moreover, the God Realm could clearly have developed well. It could even have expanded before Tang San arrived in the God Realm. Yet unexpectedly, Destruction only began expanding the God Realm after encountering Tang San there.
And Destruction should have known about what Tang San had done in Douluo Continent. For instance, after Tang Wutong returned to the God Realm and Huo Yuhao became a god, by looking through the relevant records, he should have learned that Tang San had privately interfered with the lower realm and had even forced Ju Zi, the Sun Moon Empire's leader at the time...
That behavior was utterly shameless. Destruction should have stopped it in time, or at the very least set things right as soon as he learned of it. Yet Destruction never stopped it, and he should also have learned that Tang Wutong's soul had likely been split. Still, nothing actually happened. It was truly speechless.
Tang San split his own daughter Tang Wutong's soul in two and created a stitched-together monstrosity. Yet such conduct had not caused any uproar in the God Realm. No one called Tang San disgusting, nor did anyone say he was unfit to be a father.
Perhaps most people in the God Realm simply would not interfere so long as something did not affect their own interests. And that allowed people like Tang San to cause all kinds of disasters, eventually even leading to the sacrifices of the Destruction God King and the Goddess of Life. In the end, Tang San profited, and the Tang Clan's God Realm was born.
In any case, Zhong Kui could only take things one step at a time. It would be best if they could negotiate properly later on. After all, Ji Dong, the Evil God King's successor, was also a transmigrator. If he could persuade some of them then, that would be ideal.
"Human, if you wish for us to cooperate with you, that is possible. But I hope what you said is true. I require you to accompany me to meet the Beast God Di Tian. Although we of the Extreme North do not acknowledge him as the representative leader of Soul Beasts, he remains the strongest among all Soul Beasts, as well as one of the most senior. If what he says is true, then I can consider cooperating with you."
"Then it's a deal."
Zhong Kui spoke. Di Tian surely hoped to change the current state of beastkind as well. Soul Beasts were now being suppressed, and Gu Yuena had yet to recover from the injuries inflicted by the Asura God. Under these circumstances, in Di Tian's eyes, working with humans to come up with a solution was the best option.
With Electrolux around, it should be feasible to find a way to establish a cultivation system suitable for both humans and Soul Beasts. Since they could create Soul Spirits, they should be able to create other cultivation systems as well.
Zhong Kui trusted Electrolux, anyway. Electrolux could be considered one of the strongest people in the Tang Clan universe. Electrolux had basically relied on himself, while everyone else had essentially relied on the author's cheats.
Electrolux relied on his own ability.
"Xue'er... I don't object if we are going to meet that Beast God, but can this human truly be trusted? If this human stabs us in the back, the trouble will be enormous... I admit that he has given me many benefits, but humans and Soul Beasts have been enemies for so many years. Can we really trust humans? Perhaps he has other motives as well. Back then, because of that Soft Bone Rabbit, quite a few Soul Beasts considered peacefully coexisting with humans, or even finding a human..."
What the Ice Empress referred to was the story of Xiao Wu, the Soft Bone Rabbit. She was one of the Shrek Seven Devils. When this matter spread among the Soul Beasts, it shocked them all. A lowly, hundred-thousand-year Soft Bone Rabbit had called a Twin Martial Souls genius her brother for who knew how many years, then became his wife, married him, became the Asura God's sword sheath, and finally ascended to the God Realm.
This matter had indeed inspired many Soul Beasts to entertain similar thoughts, but they soon realized they had been overthinking it. Humans still discriminated against Soul Beasts and treated them as cultivation resources, so after that, no Soul Beast ever considered doing what the Soft Bone Rabbit had done.
And they could not understand what Tang San had been thinking. Whether it was for Soft Bone Rabbits to reproduce in Soul Beast territories or for other rabbit-type Soul Beasts to survive, they would generally breed rabbits in massive numbers. Not long after being born, they could already have offspring, and from that moment onward, they began reproducing frantically.
A female Soft Bone Rabbit had at the very least been enjoyed by countless male rabbits. It could be said that Tang San was truly ruthless. In the eyes of beastkind, this was also an utterly explosive matter.
But they did not say it aloud, because in their eyes, it had nothing to do with them.
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