"The fourth step will still need you to act in secret, Senior!" Su Mo smiled.
The Demon Sage gazed at Su Mo and asked, "What is it?"
Su Mo looked at the bonfire before him, his eyes seeming to hold the confidence that everything was under his control. "Senior, you must secretly create an exemplary tale of love between a human and a demon."
"The more tragic this human-demon love story is, the better. Ideally, it should resonate in the hearts of every demon!"
"For example, a human and a demon are clearly in love, yet because humans and demons walk different paths, they can only gaze at each other across the sea."
"Or perhaps the two are bound by love, but their respective lineages obstruct them at every turn, leaving the human and demon so consumed by melancholy that their lives hang by a thread!"
"To yearn for something and never attain it is the most desolate thing in the world."
At this point, Su Mo's voice seemed to tremble a little unnaturally.
After a moment of silence, Su Mo raised his head and continued, "Such a case should not be hard to find. Though the Demon Pagoda is isolated from the world, there are bound to be demons who secretly exchange affections with humans. You need only find one such case, Senior."
"Then you must secretly fan it along, spreading the story throughout the entire Demon Pagoda so that everyone knows about it and feels sympathy for them..."
The more the Demon Sage listened, the more she understood. As Su Mo continued speaking, her eyes grew ever brighter.
Su Mo's scheme could be said to nibble away, step by step, at the demons' estrangement from humans, using a tragic story told throughout the world to awaken the demons'