Chapter 78

【Why?! Why can the Wu Clan stand together with the Heavenly Court?!】

【You are both confused and panicked, because you know very well what the Wu Clan represents.】

【In your previous life, you were the Heavenly Emperor, overseeing the Primeval Three Clans and the human and Wu two clans; you have used Wu soldiers and generals, so no one knows better than you how formidable they are.】

【The Wu Clan are descendants of Pangu's blood; although nominally a branch of the Demon Race, they differ greatly from other demon races: the Wu Clan lack a Primordial Spirit and cannot cultivate immortality!】

【But being unable to cultivate immortality does not mean they are weak; in fact, the Wu Clan are absurdly strong—an ordinary Wu Clan member, upon reaching adulthood, can slaughter Heavenly Immortals at will, and after diligently accumulating tens or hundreds of Yuan Hui, they can match Golden Immortals!】

【Moreover, the Great Witches born directly from the essence blood of the Ancestral Witches are, on average, born as Taiyi Golden Immortals; with further accumulation, tearing apart a Great Luo is no empty boast.】

【As for the Ancestral Witches, it's even more absurd—all twelve Pangu-offspring women are at the Quasi-Saint level; although compared to the Immortal Dao's Quasi-Saint, their functionality is not comprehensive, and their pros and cons are very clear, with abilities extremely biased, but……they possess tremendous strength.】

After all that fuss, Qinglong really has no ill intentions; if Qinglong were your enforcer, not only could you single-handedly clear the Heavenly Court, but you could also sweep away the Wu Clan as a side effect.

【But where exactly do the interests lie? Why did the Wu Clan side with humans against Heaven in your previous life, yet this life side with Heaven against humans?】

【First is Qinglong's strange proposal: Qinglong Hall's Quasi-Saint, yet willing to get close to you, even claiming they could single-handedly clear the Heavenly Court; after you warily refused, they generously bestowed upon you an Innate Spiritual Treasure.】

【Choosing the lesser of two evils, the Wu Clan chose the Heavenly Court, thus taking the opposite path from your previous life……】

【Moreover, who said you would definitely lose without Qinglong?】

However, speaking again, if we calculate this way, both options this time are actually viable; the only difference lies in difficulty.

【The Heavenly Court can suppress the twelve Ancestral Witches—not only through sufficient military threat, but mainly by recognizing their semi-independence and bringing the Ancestral Witches into the Heavenly Court system, so everyone together oppresses the Myriad Races……】

【But if humanity were to take……another path, then in consideration of Qinglong's great merit, they would likely also bring the True Dragons along to oppress the Myriad Races below.】

【No! Not the opposite; the Wu Clan's two choices are essentially the same.】

【Furthermore, the most heaven-defying aspect is their formation known as the Twelve Heavenly Gods Slaughter Grand Formation, which can manifest as a Pangu Dharma Body—one punch can fell Di Jun, two punches can knock down the Kun-Peng, and three punches can drive the East Emperor Taiyi bearing the Chaos Bell to its knees.】

【You faintly grasped something, your brow furrowing: Is Qinglong truly seeking equality with the Myriad Races?】

【The enlightened you instantly regretted deeply; if I could start over, I would choose Li Bai……choose Qinglong!】

【Obviously not; don't look at his face full of hope for equality, but a person's worldview cannot suddenly change drastically—for example, Ao Guang, even Ao Guang cannot quickly turn things around, let alone Qinglong Ancestor.】

【And if the three clans share the achievements, then when humanity takes another path later, the likelihood of recruiting the True Dragons diminishes, and it's highly probable that they would also end up oppressing……】

【In this Yuan Hui, the Wu Clan's Earth Mother Department Great Witch Hou Yi leads the Wu Army in sweeping Central State, capturing and killing all human vanguards from every region!】

【Equal with the Heavenly-ordained protagonist? Qinglong is very interested!】

【And what about First Yang Mountain in this life?】

【Sitting in the Great Chieftain's hut, you, puzzled by the many recent mysteries, begin a brainstorm……】

【After consoling yourself for a while, you again thought of the Wu Clan: the Dragon Clan boarded the wagon for profit, so the Wu Clan is likely also opposing humanity for profit……】

【The reason the Wu Clan allies with humanity lies not only in some secret of humanity, but mostly in profit: if they help humanity win the war against the demons, then Di Jun's 'Equal Heavenly Court' would go bankrupt, to be replaced by the 'Sole Honored Human Court'.】

"Sin! Sin!"

I myself am fine—at worst I can rewind once—but if Jin Bing mishandles things, he might truly die once……

"No……why are you misleading me?!"

The angry Zhao Si could only continue being angry for a minute……then helplessly chose to forgive:

【You: ……】

Zhao Si: ……

Damn game! It's all up to what you say!

【In the Demon Calendar, 373 Yuan, 7 Hui, 8 Yun, the Wu Clan declared war on First Yang Mountain!】

I myself am overly suspicious, and coupled with the game's habitual misleading nature, I ended up choosing the option to increase difficulty……

【At that time, the Wu Clan could together with humanity enjoy the wonderful feeling of enslaving the Myriad Races……】

【As for the claim that Qinglong seeks to seize your power through this……you never even considered it, because you are actually the spokesperson of the Six Saints, and even if Qinglong harbored ambitions, it would be utterly unwise.】

【In such a feudal, even primitive Wu Clan interior, would they really be a loving family……】

【Qinglong's enthusiastic participation in the 'Myriad Races Equality' endeavor is likely not because they want equality with the Myriad Races, but because they wish to maximize their influence on humanity's side, thereby binding themselves to humanity.】

【In short, it's just that humanity's path determines the True Dragons' path—if humanity consistently upholds equality, then the Dragon Clan truly dares to be equal!】

【But you're not overly worried either, since you know you can restart; at least in this life you can gather some information, and pay attention next life……】

【The previous life's First Yang Mountain was actually an illegitimate regime under human supremacism; the reason humanity and the demon race mutually slaughtered each other was to dominate over the vast demon races.】

【Stacked layer upon layer, resembling a pyramid—how could this not be a hierarchical oppression system!】

Zhao Si looked at the phone with a bewildered expression:

"So, did I just……pick the wrong option?"

【However, this time First Yang Mountain stands on the opposing side of the Wu Clan's interests!】

Those descriptive words clearly paint Qinglong as a scheming villain; with your misleading, I surely picked the wrong choice!

【Ding! This game contains no misleading elements; it's fair, just, and open—the options given by the characters are entirely their own ideas; the player themselves chose the increased difficulty option, so don't blame the game.】

【Great Chieftain must win!】

【This choice is called profit!】

【Therefore, if First Yang Mountain wins, equality will be even more thorough than Di Jun's, and the ancient Wu Clan's hierarchy will completely collapse……This absolutely does not serve the interests of the Wu Clan's ruling class!】

【Equality with the Myriad Races? Qinglong has no interest.】

Zhao Si saw this and was completely stunned:

【But the Wu Clan and the Heavenly Court's attack on First Yang Mountain has already begun!】

It no longer represents human supremacism, but thorough equality among all races; therefore, when First Yang Mountain announces "purging the ruler's side" rebellion against heaven, if First Yang Mountain wins, then your strength as the Six Saints' God-Chosen could be much higher than Di Jun's!

Things have come to this point, but let's just play a game for now.

Upon reflecting again this time, you feel your attitude toward the Azure Dragon was still too harsh; their heart really isn't bad, at least before humanity takes another path, this is truly a great thing.

The past is the past, the present is the present.

If we must say there is some conspiracy, it's probably that the Azure Dragon Ancestor truly despises the phoenix and the kirin, so they don't want to stand on equal footing with those two...

Ah?!

【Excluding that he is overflowing with love and truly eager to take revenge on the Heavenly Court, the most reasonable explanation should be……interests?】

【Shi Yun, the Gold Bing Order of Mount Shouyang, Xuan Du leads the monster allied army, to battle the Wu troops!】

"That you before……"

【Where is the problem?】

【You begin a careful analysis: If one must speak, then perhaps it is only because the nature of Mount Shouyang is completely opposite between the two lives!】

【Having figured out everything, you sense that something big is going wrong……】

【You don't understand; in your past life, the Wu Clan could even fight alongside you to conquer the world, yet in this life the two sides have no grudge, and you still want to drag them into the Mount Shouyang camp to rebel against Heaven together……】

【With such an overwhelmingly powerful force, how did I end up clashing with Mount Shouyang?!】

"Continue! Let death come if it must!"

【Di Jun wants equality, but he is constrained from all sides; the equality policy actually cannot be implemented at all—nominally 'equality,' but in reality the major clans are merely semi-independent entities; how could true equality exist within the clans? Just as the True Dragon oppresses the Second-rank Flood Dragon, the Ancestor Wu stands above the Great Wu, and the Great Wu above the ordinary Wu people……】

If choosing to let the Azure Dragon help, the difficulty coefficient will decrease; otherwise it will increase.

【Shi Yun, battle in the Central State!】

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(End of chapter)