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Lu Li narrowed his eyes. The war between humans and snakes had already begun, but Lu Li had a pretty good idea of what kind of trump cards Iger had up his sleeve. This Father of Serpents was now cornered.
If He wins this time, He can continue, but if He loses, Lu Li will definitely strip Him of His status.
Because of Iger's status Father of Serpents, the Serpent Clan of Gresta had no choice but to petrify themselves during the war, otherwise they would be too easily bewitched by Iger. If the Serpent Clan wanted to continue to develop, the position of the Father of Serpents had to be overthrown.
Large numbers of Snake People suddenly attacked from the seabed and landed on land. Using some strange and bizarre poison technology, they slaughtered humans on a large scale. Those Secondary Infected with snake-like forms had their genes and bloodlines distorted and turned into Snake People.
Humanity today is, to put it nicely, divided into numerous warlords, but to put it bluntly, it's a disorganized mess. In many future developments, humanity hasn't even formed a coalition. The Snake People have rebuilt the Third Kingdom and then swept through humanity. It was during this time that Iger came to the land, laying a solid foundation for becoming the Twisted Lord.
However, Lu Li estimated that it would be difficult for Iger to turn the tables, and that he would most likely be able to let Hugh Meier succeed in once again devouring the foundation of the world's existence. Strictly speaking, Iger's situation was even more miserable than Lu Li's.
As long as Lu Li doesn't gamble recklessly and drag Gresta and the others down with him, the worst loss he'll suffer is this Avatar. But if Iger loses, he'll lose himself as well. His rank has been repeatedly lowered, and if he loses again this time, he'll probably be reduced to the level of a clan leader. At that point, he'll just be the leader of the Snake People, not the Father of Serpents.
"So now we can release the Demon-Subduing Chapter to continue protecting cultivators!" Lu Li thought carefully. What he needed to do now was to capture a Snake People, study it, and develop a Daoist Demon -Demon-Subduing Chapter that could subdue Snake People.
"But there's one more thing to do before that." Lu Li seemed to have thought of something, his eyes narrowed into a smile, and he grabbed the ponytail woman who was still unconscious beside him. After a long period of research, Lu Li had an idea on how to create a lightning spirit root, and now was not the time to give up on her.
Large numbers of Snake People are advancing towards the land in an organized manner. Under the coercion of the Snake People, the surrounding humans have slowly formed an alliance, but due to the eccentric nature of the Correctors, they are not harmonious and the alliance is extremely loose.
Among the Snake People, those skilled in incantations to Sleeper mostly possess a kind of illusion spell. With the help of this spell, Snake People look no different from ordinary humans, and their appearance is even much better than that of ordinary people.
Therefore, under the Snake People's divisive tactics, these alliances have all sorts of problems, because the snake-like Secondary Infected can be transformed into new Snake People by the Snake People, so the conflict between humans and Secondary Infected has risen again.
In this distorted and deformed social relationship, the Secondary Infected live better than ordinary humans, but the Correctors among them are superior to the Secondary Infected. Previously, the three barely maintained a balance, but due to the Snake People transformation, the contradictions that had been suppressed by the powerful Correctors have once again erupted.
Normally, it wouldn't matter if all the Secondary Infected were eliminated, but those Sleeper have mastered various magic and technologies have developed twisted magic technology by using the twisted power controlled by Iger. Under this magic technology, their power will not be enhanced, but they can restrain the Correctors.
For example, the Twisted Shield is specifically designed to protect against twisted power. Even if the Correctors controls more twisted power, it is difficult to instantly kill Snake People wearing the shield. In addition, there are venomous twisted guns that can break through the twisted power protection.
With the infected, who form the backbone of the organization, gone, the Correctors are left to fight off all the Snake People. Given the sheer number of Snake People and their various weapons, they could easily overwhelm the Correctors. At this point, the power of the masses is needed, as humans alone are insufficient.
Unfortunately, due to their autocratic rule, the Correctors are not friendly to the humans under their rule in most cases. Humans and Secondary Infected are merely playing the role of servants. If it weren't for the Correctors' authority, the relatively calm war situation, and the fact that the Snake People would choose to kill other humans, then probably many more humans and Secondary Infected would have sided with the Snake People.
The snake-like infected, however, presents a problem. Those who have escaped and colluded with the enemy can be killed directly, but what about those who haven't escaped?
Because of their long-standing tendency to stick together, most Secondary Infected have families, and snake-like infected individuals, being the most obvious of the three states, are often key members of these families.
Once the cleanup is chosen, most of the Secondary Infected will defect. Within the alliance, spies of the Snake People are frantically sowing discord between the Correctors and the Secondary Infected. The entire alliance is filled with tension, and conflicts between humans and Secondary Infected occur every now and then.
Among the Secondary Infected are spies of the Snake People, spreading rumors that the Correctors intend to exterminate them, thus stirring up their anxieties. If, at this critical juncture, a man and a woman—ideally one human and one Secondary Infected —emerge, and after a series of adventures, uncover the Snake People's conspiracy, and unite to promote solidarity between humans and Secondary Infected, with both groups working together to fight the Snake People, then it would certainly be a very good patriotic film.
In a normal future development, this kind of plot is very likely to occur. In one future, a human woman named Pearl and a male Secondary Infected named He Jie accidentally discover the Snake People's conspiracy. After a love adventure involving separation and reunion, they finally find evidence of the Snake People's conspiracy and successfully tie the Secondary Infected to the chariot of the Correctors, turning him into cannon fodder.
However, that opportunity was gone. Lu Li discarded the two dried corpses in his hands. If the Secondary Infected were on the Correctors's chariot, the Correctors's tolerance for the Daoist advanced version they were about to promote would drop by more than one level.
Only when those Secondary Infected are eliminated as cannon fodder can cultivators, as Daoist priests, further develop into a central force in the fight against the Snake People.
"You two damned bastards, you've discovered my secret! Are you ready to die?!" The tattered tent was flung open, and a sinister-looking, handsome human rushed in. His gaze quickly swept over the two desiccated corpses on the ground, then, glancing at Lu Li's predatory gaze, the handsome human immediately chuckled and said, "Sorry, wrong place. I'll leave right away!"
"Hehe." Lu Li chuckled. He was really lucky; he didn't need to go through the trouble of searching for Snake People to study.
I went to bed too late last night and caught a bit of a cold, so I slept until noon this morning. I'm really sorry. I'll still be posting four updates today to make up for the 10,000-yuan reward from the great master Wenxin.