Chapter 26: Heaven creates all things to nourish humanity, yet humanity offers nothing in return to Heaven!

You returned safely to the human race and brought back the good news that the Heavenly Court had temporarily halted the slaughter of humans, causing the entire human race to rejoice.

Seeing this scene, you once fell into self‑questioning: does being chosen by the Heavenly Dao as the Heaven‑mandated protagonist mean that every human is born guilty and therefore deserves to die?

What have the humans done wrong? Nothing—humans have never had any innate sin; it's merely the Heavenly Dao's insane abstract act. Even if there were guilt, it would be the Heavenly Dao's fault, and humans are just unlucky sacrificial victims.

Are the demons guilty? No, either—before humans were born, the only differences between us were strength and cultivation. Though cultivation is hard, it's not impossible to make up for; at least the Heavenly Dao never pointed to the dragon clan or any innate spirits and said, "They are the supreme demons; no matter how hard you try, it's useless—even if you surpass them in cultivation, you'll still be inferior."

The sense of "high and low, noble and base" that naturally arises from differences in power level, and the "noble supreme demon" seal personally stamped by the Heavenly Dao, are essentially two concepts; the latter only makes demons despair.

As the Heavenly Emperor, Di Jun felt powerless and stifled by the Heavenly Dao's special favor toward humans, eventually turning to extremes—but what about the ordinary demons?

Such rhetoric grew ever stronger among the demons, stirring up resentment, and so everyone inevitably recalled the abolished Slaughter‑of‑Humans edict from years past…

Step two: educate them—since the demons look down on us, we will look down on them in return, mutually despising each other, showing contempt for every demon we meet, in order to provoke the demons into developing a corresponding sense of racial opposition.

Transfer power?

"Am I helping the demons or the humans?"

Until one day…

The myriad demons fell silent, and in that silence they bred a passion as hot as flame and as piercing as ice!

"It's about time we slaughtered them!"

Standing before the surge that is about to sweep across the entire Wasteland, you feel like a mantis beneath a racing wheel—any thought of stepping forward to block it vanishes in panic.

"Could… launching the slaughter be the best solution? I find it difficult to play because I'm not extreme enough?"

"Have you heard? A female of the Snake Clan married a human surnamed Xu, and their child is a pure‑blooded human!" "Human bloodline is just as domineering as they themselves are; if this continues, our other demon clans will surely go extinct sooner or later!"

"Heaven creates all things to nourish humanity, yet humanity offers nothing in return to Heaven!"

"The demons have their script? We humans must have our own script!"

"What didn't exist, we must create; what existed, we must change!"

From every word and deed to everything around them, everything brimmed with independence and superiority; soon the humans, high and low, were utterly distinct, their lands compared to the demons' territories like another world…

Under this education, humans naturally develop resentment toward the Heavenly Emperor, which evolves into hostility toward all demons, giving rise to "isolationism" and "xenophobia".

Zhao Si stared agape, originally pondering how to devise a strategy to solve the root of this human‑demon conflict, never expecting that the extreme slaughter option he thought would soon self‑destruct would actually come this far!

"I've heard that humans can easily become disciples of a sage; even the Jade Pure Sage of the Sect of Enlightenment, who does not accept demons with scales and horns or those born wet or from eggs, also looks favorably upon humans…"

"Heaven‑mandated protagonist?"

"The demons have their language? We need our own human language."

Throughout the Wasteland, the fame of humanity spreads; in the demons' perception, humans are astonishingly powerful—numerous, swift in cultivation, extremely xenophobic, mysterious yet repulsive to demons.

"The demons have their clothing? We humans need our own clothing style!"

The Heavenly Court suddenly announced to the world that, because humanity is flourishing, even the Heavenly Dao has been moved, and thus it has already ordained humanity as the Heaven‑mandated protagonist; to obey the Heavenly Dao's command above and fulfill the hopes of all races below, the Heavenly Court will gradually transfer power to humanity—this is the trend of the Heavenly Dao, and all peoples need not panic, etc.

At the same time, rumors began to spread: "Did you know? Humans have their own script and language, and they start learning it from childhood instead of studying demon script!"

"The Twelve Assemblies… one yuan, two yuan, three yuan…"

Over the long years, humanity's power grew ever stronger; you educated them from childhood that demons and humans are different—demons are evil and base, humans are good and noble, innately superior to demons by a head… Consequently, nearly all humans came to look down on demons from the heart, and any doubtful voices within were quickly drowned out.

"Kill Kill Kill!"

A war born from every inch of the Wasteland's land, from every demon's rejection and opposition, finally erupted violently!

Even though you had agreed to act as an insider for Di Jun's human‑slaughter plan, you still felt uneasy, constantly asking yourself the same question…

"One yun, two yun, three yun…"

Step four: wait.

Step three: since the Heavenly Emperor is bad, all demons are bad; there are no good demons in the world, and even if any appear, they are merely disguises to deceive people—because demons are all bad, we must exterminate them completely!

Strangely enough, even though demon resentment flared everywhere, the Heavenly Court responded coldly, as if the old Slaughter‑of‑Humans edict had not been issued by them at all.

The plan's first step is to tell humans that the Heavenly Emperor wants to slaughter them because he is narrow‑minded and petty, despising humanity and regarding humans as the lowest of beings—living in the world is an insult to the demons!

The humans you have cultivated are extreme yet powerful; under the mandate of Heaven, they are innately suited to cultivate and realize the Dao, achieving unity of heaven and humanity, of self and Dao, their progress far outpacing peers of the same age among demons—so far, there are dozens of Taiyi Golden Immortals, thousands of Golden Immortals, millions of Mystic Immortals, and countless Heavenly and True Immortals!

Waiting is often protracted.

Aside from the core Heavenly Emperor Donghuang Yaoshi and the like, the Heavenly Court has essentially become a human Heavenly Court…

Zhao Si felt an incredulous idea rise in his heart:

"Thirty yun… one meeting, two meetings, three meetings…"

Incidents often arise in which powerful humans seize demon treasures and elixirs; although the Heavenly Court soon settles them properly, the repeated occurrences make it hard not to foster mutual hostility.

Relocate the capital?

Next, amid the stunned attention of the entire Wasteland, the Heavenly Court truly moved from the Thirty‑Three Heavens to the region of Mount Shouyang, built a palace there, and then replaced en masse the demon heavenly soldiers, generals, and officials with humans appointed to those posts.

War! slaughter! imminent!

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(End of chapter)