Chapter 198: Human-Devil Conflict
When Xu Zhenfeng arrived at Lou Qianjiang's temporary residence, he chatted with him for a while.
It's not simply because Lou Qianjiang is a wealthy man, and they want to see if they can squeeze some more money out of him.
Xu Zhenfeng also wanted to learn about the human world outside the Demon Mountain through the legitimate son of General Fenwei.
The two chatted for quite a while, and Xu Zhenfeng finally got a general idea of the situation of the human race.
The current human race is divided into three sects: Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism, and the vast majority of cultivators come from these three sects.
There are very few wild cultivators.
As for those small sects and schools, there is nothing much to say.
In addition to the three schools of Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism, there are also several sects that specialize in refining weapons and elixirs.
Although these sects may not have very impressive magic skills, they have close ties with Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism.
As for the reason, you don’t have to think about it to know it.
The leader of the Taoist sects is the Xuantian Sect, followed by the Qingwei Sect, the Yuxuan Sect, and below that are the Jinhua Dao, Taixuan Sect and other lesser Taoist sects.
The first Buddhist sect is Tianbao Temple, followed by Shouzhuo Temple and Vajra Temple.
Other small temples and sects are unremarkable.
It is worth mentioning that the Vajra Temple, as its name suggests, practices the Vajra Wrathful Eyes, a purely physical practice of Buddhism, taking the path of proving the truth through force.
It is somewhat similar to the meat shield monsters such as the elephant bear python in the Monster Mountain.
There is only one school of Confucianism, and that is the Tiandao School.
Speaking of the Confucian practice method, even Lou Qianjiang said that this is really a rogue sect, and what they practice is to follow one's words.
The ultimate goal of their cultivation system is, what I say is what it is?
If I say you are, you are it, whether you are not it or not. If I say you are not it, you are not it, whether you are it or not it.
For example, if we are fighting, and I say that the knife in your hand is a fan, then all you have in your hand is the fan.
And I can hit you to death with a big inkstone plate, or even stab you to death with a pen.
I said you can't beat me, so don't even think about trying to beat me. You can't beat me even if you die of exhaustion.
If this kind of cultivation system is not rogue, then what else is rogue?
Of course, this also depends on the realm, like when Xu Zhenfeng fought the human race for the first time at Jianfengling Pass.
That Zhao Zhuangzhou was a Confucian disciple, at the eighth level of the Earth Rank. He could only silence Lang Wentian, who was at the same level, for a breath or two.
If he wanted to replace the magic sword in Lang Wentian's hand with something else at will, he would have to be at the great perfection of the heavenly level.
It can only be achieved by crossing levels.
After talking about Confucianism, let’s talk about the schools of weapon refining and alchemy.
The largest one is the Jingmiao Pavilion, which combines elixirs and weapons, followed by the Tianran Sect, which only refines elixirs, and the Ziyang Sect, which only refines weapons.
Of course, there are other small sects that refine weapons and elixirs, but they are not as famous as these three.
The entire human race’s thirty-odd dynasties were almost all controlled by the three sects of Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism.
There are only two or three dynasties in the hands of Jingmiao Pavilion, Tianran Gate and Ziyang Sect.
Although the people in charge of these human empires are emperors, these so-called emperors are either the direct descendants of these three sects or the elders of the sect.
All the talented descendants of the royal family will enter the sect to practice, and the royal heir will also be selected from these royal descendants.
These sects that control the empire can even control the succession to the throne.
Xu Zhenfeng finally understood that this was a human world controlled by a sect.
The so-called emperor is nothing more than an agent who manages the human race on behalf of the sect and is responsible for collecting taxes to support the sect.
Some so-called princes and princesses, if they do not have good talents, their status in the sect may be even lower than that of disciples with extraordinary talents but ordinary backgrounds.
Xu Zhenfeng chatted with Lou Qianjiang for most of the day, and even asked him for a few Qingxin Pills that could increase his cultivation speed before he said goodbye and left.
After returning to his room, he took the Qingxin Pill and began to practice, only to find that this thing was almost useless to him.
His cultivation speed was already extremely fast, and as long as the necessary resources could keep up, there was almost no possibility of encountering a bottleneck.
After finding out that the Qingxin Pills had no effect on him, he immediately gave the remaining pills to Lang Xiangtian as a gift.
Lang Xiangtian has also used the Qingxin Pill. This thing is useless against Xu Zhenfeng, but it is useful against other monsters.
However, the human race has always limited the supply of these elixirs that can assist in cultivation and improve strength to the demon race.
It's not a good idea to not give any, but if you give too much you're afraid that the demon mountain's strength will increase and it will be hard to control.
Therefore, if the demon race wants to exchange elixirs like Tengyun Pill and Qingxin Pill, which are used to assist in cultivation, they have to pay a very high price.
Even a big monster like Lang Xiangtian can only use one or two of them occasionally.
I don't know if the Demon King can use it freely.
However, when he reached the level of heavenly perfection like the Demon King, what he lacked was no longer cultivation, but enlightenment.
It was this kind of enlightenment that, in the past two to three thousand years, prevented all three races of demons from achieving heavenly perfection.
This world has not had a powerful being ascend to the divine realm for more than three thousand years.
What’s strange is that in the past two or three thousand years, the gods have not performed a single miracle in this world.
More than three thousand years ago, it was said that miracles often occurred in various parts of the world, especially in the main sects of the three major sects.
The last miracle occurred in Xuantian Sect more than 3,000 years ago.
Even this miracle was very strange.
On the Xuantian Sect's jade disk for passing on power, there appeared handwriting from an unknown human god.
Still unfinished handwriting, only three words.
Ascend to Heaven
The last word "Tao" was extremely sloppy.
No one knows what these three words mean?
I don’t know if the god only wanted to write these three words, or if he didn’t finish writing them because he was delayed by other things and then forgot about them afterwards.
Or was it a god who performed miracles? What accident happened before it was finished?
Since that time, miracles have ceased to appear, no matter how the emperors of the human race performed sacrifices or tried their best to use magic to attract the gods.
There was no movement in the divine realm, as if it had completely lost contact with this world.
It is said that the situation of the demons is the same as that of the human race, and they also have several demon gods.
He also often performed miracles to remind the demons in the lower world of some things, but he suddenly disappeared more than three thousand years ago.
The demon clan doesn't care. Anyway, no demon from the demon clan has ever become a god and entered the realm of gods, and no miracle has ever appeared in the Demon Mountain.
For this reason, the human race once suspected whether a war between human gods and demon gods had occurred in the divine world, and whether both sides died together?
Later, this suspicion was overturned because there were hundreds of gods with names in the human race, while there were no more than ten demon gods in the demon race.
If there really were a fight between human gods and demon gods in the divine world, those demon gods would not be enough to defeat the human gods one by one.
Since then, the gods have disappeared, and there is no longer any powerful being in this world who can embark on the path to heaven.
Although miracles no longer appear, the conflict between humans and demons becomes increasingly serious.
After the death of an emperor of the Qin Empire hundreds of years ago, his soul was intercepted by the demons and discovered by the human race, and the conflict finally broke out violently.
Over the years, countless battles, large and small, have broken out between humans and demons.
When the demons were defeated, they retreated back to the islands and fought guerrilla warfare against the humans.
If they win, they will lead the demon army directly into the human territory and devour the human souls with all their might.
Originally, only the thousand-mile area around Endless Island in the Endless Sea was the demon world, but now the entire area of thousands of miles around the sea is a restricted area for humans.