"Mercy?" Fang Yun seemed unable to understand the word.
Foxbrow Saint was exceptionally astute and hastily said, "Our race is ignorant, nothing more than uncivilized savages. Naturally, we know nothing of benevolence and virtue, only slaughter, and have done many things we should not have done. But I believe that, once we submit to the Human Race and receive the teachings of Saints, even Demon Barbarians will surely learn benevolence, righteousness, and morality..."
"Benevolence and righteousness?"
Fang Yun's question exploded like thunder beside Foxbrow Saint's ears.
"Aren't benevolence and righteousness what the Human Race upholds? We Demon Barbarians are willing to learn them too. Sage Kong himself said that education should make no distinctions."
A sudden wave of emotion stirred in Fang Yun. He raised his gaze toward the horizon and slowly spoke.
"In the savage age, our forebears wandered with the weather, the seasons, and the food. For the sake of survival, they regarded every other race they encountered as an enemy. Amid their nomadic wanderings, they revered only the strong, only strength. Only a physically powerful leader could lead the tribe to survival."
Fang Yun had already become a Provisional Ancestor. Every word carried the voice of heaven, with laws and principles following in its wake. His voice crossed the Demon Realm and even resounded across the Saint Origin Continent.
The students of the Human Race immediately stood and bowed their heads to listen.
"Blue seas become mulberry fields; the affairs of the world ever change. When later forebears mastered cultivation, they no longer drifted with the current, but founded nations and settled down. Excessive worship of strength instead became a shackle bristling with spikes, wounding the tribe. At such a time, only strong leaders who discarded backward thinking, established order through benevolence, righteousness, and morality, and upheld