Chapter 587

She was a wild demon, how could she ever have had such ambitions?

Forget the Four Emperors—even achieving immortality is an extremely distant prospect.

The green snake sneered: "Why should we do this?"

"Becoming one of the Four Emperors must carry enormous risks!"

Xiao Bai smiled: "Of course the risks are huge! But if you don't act, does that make the risks disappear? As outsiders, you're born on the opposite side of humanity—do you really want your fate controlled by others, rather than seizing great power and taking charge of your own destiny?"

"Besides, even if the demon race wins, do you really think that's a good thing?"

Xiao Bai countered, "Demons mostly live by raw meat and blood. If the demon race gains dominance, your beloved human delicacies, clothing, ornaments, and architecture will all vanish. When the land becomes ruins, everyone will be forced back to living in caves and demon dens!"

"Demons have never been builders of civilization, only destroyers. The prosperity you see around you was created by humanity. Think— if demons triumph, the world regresses tens of thousands of years—can you endure that?"

The green snake froze in silence.

Though she had spent little time in human society and was constantly hunted by demon slayers and cultivators,

she deeply loved all things of human civilization.

Exquisite clothing, an array of delicious foods—these could never have been created by wild demons.

Even in myths and legends, when demons were said to have built civilizations, what they boasted of was nothing but supernatural powers, bloodline, and glory.

These things were too distant for a demon like her.

Human civilization, by contrast, felt very close to her.

"If time rolled back tens of thousands of years, would I truly be happy?"

"Is a demon victory really a good thing?"

Meanwhile, the white snake was also pondering.

Besides human civilization, the white snake also deeply admired human order.

Humans certainly had infighting and conflict.

But compared to demon civilization, it was ten thousand times better!

Among demons, infighting was fiercer, struggles more brutal!

The white snake, older and with more experience than the green snake,

had been born in the wild, fighting heaven and earth, fighting her own kind, evading human cultivators—she understood well the cruelty among demons.

"Human civilization is truly admirable!" the white snake sighed softly. "If I had the power to unite the demon race and teach them civilization, etiquette, to govern a region and benefit all living beings, it would be a path to transcendence."

The green snake nodded gently.

Though frail, humans had created a civilization even the powerful demon race could not forge.

This was precisely humanity's strength.

"But to unite the demon race—I simply lack the strength!" the white snake knew her own limits.

A wild demon, even after years of cultivation and some supernatural abilities, might dominate a region,

but to rule an entire race—without absolute power, it was utterly impossible.

Xiao Bai smiled: "That's precisely why I came to you. My husband is the Lord of this world—he is benevolent, unwilling to let good demons suffer, unwilling to let humanity suffer—so he devised a way for virtuous demons to rule the demon race."

"He has already provided cultivation techniques and elixirs sufficient to propel both of you to rapid advancement and dominion over all."

The white snake was stunned: "Lord of this world?"

The green snake was stunned: "Even the Lord of a world doesn't discriminate against demons?"

"Why should he discriminate?" Xiao Bai smiled lightly. "Demons, humans, even the Jin Wu in the sky—all are his subjects, all favored by him. Just as in your world, why are humans the chosen ones of heaven and earth?"

"Is it because heaven and earth favor humans more?"

The green snake frowned: "Isn't it?"

"Favoring humans is the result, not the cause. The cause? Humans reproduce quickly, develop wisdom rapidly, and unlike other races, they don't merely destroy. They are the race of order, the race of civilization!"

"If you were heaven and earth, which race would you prefer—the orderly one, or the one that destroys day after day?"

The green snake and white snake fell silent.

Put in heaven's place—even if they became rulers of heaven and earth, they would surely not favor those who shattered order.