My brother is so cunning.

South of the Lishan Mountains is a large plain with a well-developed water system. Three large rivers meander and intersect. From the air, there are many gem-like human villages dotted along the jade-like rivers.

On the side close to the Lishan Mountains, there is a demon village built halfway up the mountain. The village is built on the mountain, with a dangerous terrain and covered by jungle, making it easy to defend and difficult to attack. The owner of the village is a great demon with a high level of cultivation.

The village has been established for a hundred years. Many people in this area have grown up listening to the threats of adults saying "If you cry again, the powerful bear king will come."

The bear monster has been causing trouble for many years, but the local government is a small feudal lord and has no ability to send troops to clear it out. They petitioned the Western Zhou royal court to send troops to attack it, but because the Zhou Dynasty has declined over the years, they have no power to suppress the feudal states that do not respect the royal court, let alone attack the demon king.

But over the past hundred years, the bear monster has not committed any great evil deeds such as slaughtering villages and eating people. The people say that it is because of the gods on Mount Li that the monster king has restrained his ferocity and dared not to be rampant.

However, in recent years, the villages and villages on the plains have also suffered from the extortion of the monster village. A small half of the grain grown every year is snatched away by the monsters who come down the mountain to collect grain, and the remaining small half is collected by government tax collectors. Although the people on the plains are good at farming, they still cannot get enough food, and they starve for more than half a year.

Therefore, the population growth in the area is relatively slow. After all, adults will starve to death in a famine year, and children can't be raised at all.

The Black Wind Village is going to welcome the distinguished guests today. In the morning, the little monsters in the village are busy cleaning, and a little bear monster leader is directing the little monsters to run around.

"Little ones, be alert. Several masters are coming to visit the king today. The king has spoken. If anyone loses face for him, his life will be in danger!"

"Yes, leader!"

The little demons are all wild beasts in the wild, rabbit demons, deer demons, wild boar demons, rat demons, toad spirits, pheasant spirits, etc. The stages of transformation vary. Many demons still have monster heads and hairy human bodies.

Nowadays, the spiritual energy is thin, and the transformation of demons is not as smooth as it was five hundred years ago. It is considered lucky to be able to transform to the point where they can walk upright and speak human language. There are also demons in the village who have awakened their spiritual intelligence but have not cultivated into human form. They can only do low-level chores like livestock and carry mounts.

At the gate, two toad spirits, one red and one green, were holding branches with leaves that had not been picked clean as brooms. They were sweeping the dust and animal manure in front of the village gate. While working, they chatted with each other.

"What big event is the king going to do today? It's been a long time since we've been so busy."

"I heard from the bear leader that the five friends of Lishan are gathering today, and several demon kings and the one on Lishan are coming to visit."

"In the past, they all disliked our village for being dirty and messy, and never came to the village for gatherings. The king always went to Lishan to enjoy himself, and came back saying that Lishan was the life of immortals, drinking immortal wine and eating delicious food..."

"I don't know if what the king said is true. What kind of good life do immortals live? Do they have meat every meal?"

"Looking at your little achievement, I think you have to use a golden broom to sweep the floor."

...

The two toads had just finished sweeping a piece of the ground when the soil suddenly cracked. Soon, two more earth holes appeared, and two people crawled out of the ground.

The two people were a man and a woman. The man was sloppy, with untidy beard and a head full of hair. The woman was tall, beautiful, and dignified, but because she had just emerged from the ground, she was covered in dust and dirt.

"Brother, don't you have the kind of armor that can fly? Why do you have to burrow into the ground when you go out?"

He Lingyun muttered and cast a dust-avoiding spell on himself, and the dust on his body immediately dissipated. He also cast a spell on Wen Rui to help him save the step of slapping dust and spitting mud.

"This is called maintaining a consistent and good style." Wen Rui taught: "The most taboo for cultivators is arrogance. If you have a little ability, you will think that you are the boss and I am the second. Even if we become immortals in the future, we must be down-to-earth. Now that you have a little ability, have you forgotten the time when you were beaten and had to dig into the ground to survive?"

"I'm learning, brother! I understand!"

"Be low-key in life and high-key in work. You will learn slowly."

After teaching the secretary, Wen Rui said to the two stunned toad spirits: "Go tell your king that Wen Rui from the Jinling Sect is here to visit."

The two toads dropped their brooms and ran into the village in a panic. Soon the village gate was pushed open, and Xiong Ba, dressed in a mighty armor, grinned and greeted him with a smile: "Brother Wen, you are late. The brothers have been here for a long time and are waiting for you."

As he said, the buffalo spirit, the leopard spirit and the second brother wolf demon also followed Xiong Ba and came to greet him together.

Before the four demons of Lishan could continue to greet Wen Rui, they saw He Lingyun who was following him, and they were all stunned.

It had been nearly half a year since the last meeting, and the weak little Jindan crane had now advanced to the Return to Void realm like them, and it was not just an ordinary Return to Void. As the same Return to Void period, several great demons who had been stagnant in this realm for many years could not see through the reality of the crane spirit, and only felt that she was between existence and non-existence.

You can see its shape with your eyes open, but you can't sense its existence with your eyes closed.

The four demon kings were observing He Lingyun, and He Lingyun was also observing them.

When they met again, the female cultivator felt as if they were in another world. The existence that she was extremely afraid of at the beginning, now she regarded it as an ant, and she could see through their strength at a glance. All these demon kings together were not enough for her to pierce with one sword.

He Lingyun can only be said to have just started learning the "Piaomiao Wuding Water Drop Sword Technique", but its power is already shocking. The combination of "Flying Gold Sword Technique" and "Demon Protection Sword" alone is enough for her to crush the same level with the speed of the sword. With a little change in the equation of Moye Sword Technique, it is easy to kill the sword cultivators of the same level.

But thinking of the principle of "low-key life and high-key work" just taught by her senior brother, the little crane girl smiled and made the international friendly gesture of Jinling Sect generously, and said softly: "Jinling Sect He Lingyun greets the big brothers."

Xiong Ba's momentum was obviously stagnant, and his expression was not as relaxed and heroic as before. He bowed his hands in return.

Except for Lang Er, the other three monsters looked calm, and they could not hide their thoughts and their faces became solemn.

Wen Rui saw all these subtle changes in expression, and thought to himself that the wild monsters were so realistic. When they saw those who seemed powerful, they immediately became alert.

After a few pleasantries, Xiong Ba led Wen Rui to the village owner's house. The demon clan's construction technology was crude. The house was made of logs. The wooden fence-like walls were still shining. The bark on the logs was not peeled off. The house, which had just been cleaned, smelled of logs, but there was no stench like a beast's den.

He Lingyun followed him through the village and saw many low-level demon clan minions. The little demons were considered to be wearing formal clothes if they had a pair of pants. Many demons with a lot of hair on their bodies simply went naked. Anyway, you couldn't see the private parts, so there was no need to cover them.

There were also female demons in the village, mostly pheasant spirits and deer spirits, who were also half-dressed. They relied on the fact that their hair had not yet faded and their bodies had human curves, but they didn't care at all.

He Lingyun couldn't help but sigh secretly, thinking that if he hadn't worshipped Lishan, he would probably have lived the same life as these demons.

She is also considered a well-informed demon cultivator of the Lishan Immortal Sect. Before she opened her spiritual wisdom but transformed, she was a crane, so she would not be attacked by cultivators like demon cultivators who transformed from wild beasts when flying and migrating in the mortal world, and the mortals of the human race were not afraid of her and did not hide from her.

He Lingyun had observed the life of the human villages and towns. The living conditions of the savages in some remote mountain villages were not much better than those of the fairies in the village. They were also poorly clothed and even less well fed than the fairies, and all of them looked pale.

It was hard to say whether the savages in the fiefdoms were considered human beings in the eyes of the princes and nobles. The savages had no human rights in the fiefdoms. They paid the most taxes and performed the heaviest labor, but they had no rights at all. If they were extremely hungry and stole the food and livestock of the people, they would be ruthlessly hunted down and killed by the soldiers.

There was no need to follow any royal law to kill the savages. The only reason they were not killed was that they could be captured and sold as slaves, which was still of some value.

The eight hundred princes of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the feudal states, the people and the barbarians, and the human race were still killing each other. Before the unification of the First Emperor, there was no concept of "All under heaven is the king's land, and all the people are the king's subjects".

In this era, the human race was also in the initial stage of civilization, and it was really not much better than the demon race. It was just fifty steps and a hundred steps. It was just that the human race had been making progress, while the demon race stagnated or even reversed, and the gap was gradually widening.

In the village owner's house, a long wooden table was filled with fruits, vegetables and meat. Xiong Ba also arranged a few female fairies who were more complete in transformation and had some looks to serve as maids, and put on colorful clothes and gauze skirts that were stolen from nowhere, making them look like country bumpkins in monkeys' clothes.

Wen Rui was naturally unrestrained. He found a seat in front of the long table and drank and talked happily with several demon kings.

He Lingyun stood quietly behind him, observing and learning silently. Even when the leopard spirit invited her to sit down, she politely refused, saying that she was a subordinate of Sect Master Wen and did not dare to overstep her bounds.

This statement attracted the attention of several demon kings. Except for Wolf Two, the demons looked at Wen Rui with more vigilance.

After three rounds of wine and five dishes, Wen Rui put down his wine glass and said, "Don't blame me for spoiling the fun. The 'Demon Clan Production Alliance' mentioned in the last gathering didn't produce any results. Today is the best day. Can we continue the topic that we didn't finish last time?"

Xiong Ba's face darkened and he said in a rough voice, "Brother Wen, you are here with bad intentions. You found a helper in the Return to Void Realm and you come to put pressure on me?"

Wen Rui shrugged and said, "I don't like to use force to pressure others, and I don't bother to force others to accept my kindness. It's a pity that my set of rules can still communicate with smart people, but it's a waste of time to meet a fool who doesn't know that he is a fool when he is about to die."

When saying this, Wen Rui stared at Xiong Ba with a pair of dead fish eyes.

"Are you saying that Lao Xiong is a fool?"

"Don't get me wrong, I'm not targeting you, I'm saying that all of you here are fools."

"Brother, am I a fool too?" Lang Er was unhappy.

"You are the same, just stupid in a different way." Wen Rui didn't indulge him.