Chapter 4: One Does Not Worry About Scarcity, But Rather About Inequality

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After some twists and turns, Lv Cheng once again pulled Shendu out of Hell.

"So, Shendu, can you answer my question now?" Lv Cheng poured hot tea for Shendu with reasonable politeness.

"If I tell you this, once my brothers and sisters get out, they will kill me," Shendu said gloomily.

"But Ximu has already told me some things," Lv Cheng said.

"I am an Immortal God Descendant, and specifically the kind of Immortal God Descendant that happens to restrain you. Demon power cannot erode my soul unless I actively accept it, which is why you all took a huge risk to sign an eternal Yin-Yang Balance Contract with me."

"This is the only way for you to leave Hell."

Although he did not know how he came to have the identity of an Immortal God Descendant, this Sword, this Immortal God Token that restrained Shendu, truly existed.

He did not fully believe Ximu's words; there was no love lost between demons, so to know the truth, he had to get answers from different demons.

Shendu was the smartest, most selfish, and most hypocritical among the demons, and also the hardest to deal with, but perhaps it was fate's arrangement that he happened to restrain Shendu!

Other demons became free entities once they left Hell; the contract between him and the demons only allowed him to gain the demons' power, rather than giving him the ability to control them.

Only Shendu!

The Pure Yang Sword on his person allowed him to send Shendu back to Hell whenever he pleased!

No matter when!

Even if Shendu recovered to his peak in the future, he would still be helpless against him!

"In a sense, the two of us are actually the closest of partners," Lv Cheng poured hot tea for Shendu.

"I can restrain you, but I cannot restrain the other demons, so I cannot trust them."

"The only one I can trust is you!"

Shendu sneered, "You want me to help you deal with the other demons?"

"Don't forget! You are an Immortal God Descendant, you are my enemy!"

"And they are my demon kin!"

"Demon kin?" Lv Cheng looked strange.

"How do you have the nerve to say such things?"

"Who was it that ruled the Earthly Kingdom alone after leaving Hell? Who was it that betrayed their promises?"

"And in the end, who was it that personally defeated Xiao Long, who was about to rule the human world?"

"You can't even tolerate your own son, and you'd treat other demons as kin?"

"Shendu, it's just the two of us here, no need for that empty talk."

"In order for me to prioritize bringing him out next time, Ximu has already betrayed your so-called Demon Alliance; why can't you betray them?"

"It's not your first time anyway; the first time is hard, the second time is easy."

Shendu's expression remained unchanged, "That was the past. I was indeed blinded by greed and betrayed my kin once, but now it is different, you are different!"

"How is it different?" Lv Cheng asked.

"Because I am that so-called Immortal God Descendant?"

"Because I happen to restrain you?"

"Shendu, there are no eternal friends, only eternal interests. You understand this principle best; otherwise, you wouldn't have chosen to betray your demon kin to rule the Earthly Kingdom alone, nor would you have chosen to help humans defeat your son."

"You are selfish."

"Now, among the eight demons, I can only restrain you. Are you satisfied with that?"

"One does not worry about scarcity, but rather about inequality~"

"……"

Shendu's eyes narrowed slightly.

This kid is not pure!

He had dealt with Immortal God Descendants before. During the time he ruled the Earthly Kingdom alone, such humans protected by the Immortal God appeared in the world.

Those Immortal God Descendants had no Token and could not send him back to Hell, but the Immortal God Qi on them still restrained his power.

Therefore, he could not face those humans.

Those Immortal God Descendants were all righteous and unyielding to the death; no matter what temptations he offered, those Immortal God Descendants never wavered!

Just like a damn Saint!

Thus, after the temptation failed, he changed his strategy.

Demons cannot strike at Saints, but what about humans?

Human greed, selfishness, and hypocrisy are in no way inferior to demons!

The only difference between them is power!

If he couldn't tempt a Saint, couldn't he tempt a human?

Driven by interests, those ridiculous Immortal God Descendants all died at the hands of their own kind without exception!

"You don't look like an Immortal God Descendant," Shendu said.

A bit like a Saint Warrior.

Immortal God Descendants have too much Divinity!

They don't understand human nature; they only think about saving the world, seeing only the demons in front of them and not the dangers hidden behind them, so they were all betrayed by the human kin they trusted without exception.

But Saint Warriors are different; they have the goals of a Saint, and they also know the dangers of human nature.

Luo Pei!

That Saint Warrior who sealed him, relying on his grasp of human nature, incited his subjects to rebel and ended his rule!

This human before his eyes clearly possessed Immortal God Qi and held the Token that restrained him, yet he was completely different from the Immortal God Descendants he had dealt with before.

From the moment this kid was willing to accept the Demon Contract and bring him out of Hell, he had already sensed something was wrong.

Now, this kid actually wants to incite a rebellion among the Demons?

Using Demons to restrain Demons?

This is not something a Saint would do!

This kid is not pure!

"I don't look like one?" Lv Cheng picked up his teacup.

"Then what is a proper Immortal God Descendant supposed to be like?"

"Just like the true Saints that you humans talk about," Shendu said.

"No selfish desires, universal love, benevolent, tolerant of everything... a bunch of idiots."

Immortal God Descendants are even more powerful than Saint Warriors, and the protection from the gods can even allow them to fight Demons head-on!

However, they do not understand humans, so they are destined to fail!

"I see... then, are you willing to cooperate with me?" Lv Cheng asked.

Shendu hesitated for a moment, "How to cooperate?"

To be honest, being the only one restrained and being able to be sent back to Hell at any time, this feeling was too unbearable!

"Worry not about scarcity, but about inequality"—this saying is correct!

"You help me restrain the other Demons, and I can respect you," Lv Cheng said.

"Respect?" Shendu narrowed his eyes slightly.

"How will you respect me?"

"For example..." Lv Cheng refilled Shendu's hot tea again.

"Like this right now."

"We can be in an equal cooperative relationship; I won't order you around, I will respect your wishes, I won't force you to do anything, and I won't just casually send you back to Hell and pull you back out again without a word like I did just now."

"Simply put, I can treat you as an equal partner, rather than a dog to be ordered around."

Shendu's expression stiffened.

His current situation was indeed no different from a dog!

The original Yin-Yang Balance Power Contract only split half of his power to this human, but Zhou Lan and the others, fearing he would betray them again, placed a restriction on him!

As long as he left Hell, he could not disobey this human's orders!

Otherwise, he would be unable to do anything at all!

Before all the other Demons escaped from Hell, this restriction would continue to exist!

If he wanted to escape this current situation, he had to try every possible means to make this human release all the other Demons!

Fortunately, Zhou Lan and the others still had a bit of conscience and did not tell this human about the effects of the restriction, otherwise...

He would truly become a Summoned Beast!

(End of this chapter)