Chapter Twenty-Three: Su Sun Takes a Deep Breath (6000)
To enslave a people is to wear out their civilization, to destroy their faith, to rewrite their history, to change their writings, and to make them never remember the glory of the past, and then to shatter their pride as intelligent beings with the strongest force, to make them kneel and sincerely believe that they are the slaves of others.
But there are flaws in this kind of enslavement, because no matter how much it is erased, destroyed, rewritten, and replaced, as long as there are such tiny gaps and opportunities, there will always be people who will regain their dignity and pride from the lost history books and legends passed down by word of mouth, and then raise the banner of resistance.
This is the will imprinted in the bloodline of a civilization, and it is far easier to destroy it completely than to enslave it completely.
But if one race, many races, they have no history that can awaken the people, and since their birth, they have been the slaves and food of another class...... Does that mean that they are doomed to eternal slavery?
Of course.
Because they have not yet known the taste of freedom, they think that obedience is the supreme truth.
The Divine Beast has everything in the Beast God Realm. The Battle Spirit Beast is responsible for fighting and working for the Divine Beast, ruling over the civilians of the lower classes. The production of spirit animals is responsible for serving the upper two classes and producing processed products. And the slave species produces the underlying means of production. And the consecrated seed is a flesh and blood crop.
In the former Beast God Realm, the ancestors of the Divine Beasts must have been intelligent, patient, far-sighted, and truly understood the concept of 'civilization'. As the disciples of the immortals, they are definitely completely out-of-the-box, and they must have fully understood the structure and future picture of the civilization that the immortals taught them at the beginning, and they must know what kind of model the 'human civilization' should be.
However, it is precisely because of their incomparable understanding that after a long period of thought, they denied such a future, became them again, and chose to create a world like the current Beast God Realm, which is extremely unequal.
- Because of this, it is not in the interests of the class of divine beasts.
The order given by the immortals will weaken the rights and interests of the Divine Beasts, making them only relatively powerful individuals, although the Divine Beasts are still the most privileged group of civilization leaders, but in this case, they are not the supreme kings.
Originally, the right to eat as much as you want, to kill as you want, and to roam the world freely, all had to be shackled, and the beastly desire to hunt other beasts as you wanted could no longer be released.
Therefore, the divine beasts are absolutely unwilling to do this, even if they are sealed in the beast god realm by the immortal gods and cannot go to the outside world for a long time.
However, the divine beast is greedy, the benefits of civilization and wisdom, he naturally understands that being a chief in a group of primitive people is really not as good as being an ordinary person in modern society - in the same way, being an overlord in the primitive barbarian beast god realm, it is better to open up some knowledge to other spirit beasts, and let them build a 'order' for all the divine beasts to worship.
The efficiency of exploitation is to progress with the progress of the times, and devouring spirit beasts at will will be feared by the spirit beasts, so that they will gather together to resist, resulting in extremely difficult to eat...... It is better to win over one faction, suppress one faction, let the subordinates deal with themselves, and let the slaves enslave themselves with their own hearts.
As long as there are no external forces, this order will continue forever...... Until the end of the world.
But, for now.
Invasive alien species, Su Day, came to this land.
The huge dragon stared at the direction where many divine beasts gathered in the distance, and he walked in the direction where he and the others had come before, without any cover.
He unleashed his momentum wantonly, causing the heavens and the earth to change color.
The wind swept through the water vapor, converging into layers of thick rain clouds above the wingless dragon's head, and the high-temperature spiritual power condensed on the surface of its body, transmitted to its feet, and imprinted one burning footprint after another on the soles of its feet...... Some dragons live in the ozone layer and feed on meteorites, and some dragons live in volcanoes and use lava as their nests, these are the environments they need, if not, they will be weakened.
But a truly powerful life is not to adapt itself to the environment, but to adapt the environment to itself.
Rain β The very act of 'action' can bring clouds and rain to the sky.
Boom - thunder flashes in the sky, can be seen, starting from the remains of the living master tree, thick rain clouds are being generated all the way, drifting all the way, between the surging water vapor, the wind and thunder and lightning, the scorching heat is like fire, like a natural disaster The dragon power spiritual pressure is spreading, and all the fighting spirit beasts along the way are fleeing from the wind.
"Yes, it's the Lord ......"
"It's a scale clan lord, how do I feel, he is stronger than the king, even stronger than the Heavenly Dragon lord!?"
"No, we can't participate in the battle between the lords, run, run!"
In the past, in order to curb the resistance of the spirit beasts, the mythical beasts instilled a sense of fear in them from generation to generation, and now it once again came into playβif they were not so afraid and so obedient, then it would be impossible for the Zhengguo Task Force to obtain a lot of relevant information from the beginning and choose the right way to act.
Walking like this, Su Sun soon arrived at a plantation manor they had seen before.
Divine beasts only eat flesh and blood or vegetables and fruits that contain spirits, and although the specifications of the battle species will be lowered, there will be no shortage of food, so ordinary grains and other plants are supplied to the lower classes - but even so, the divine beasts will often collect taxes and collect a large amount of food and wealth from the bottom, which is to ensure that the lower classes cannot store a large amount of wealth, and then become rich, learn to trade, rest and any other skills that take them out of labor.
The existence of the lower class means working until death...... As for really starving to death? Hey, isn't that a good thing, you know, the beast thing, it rises too fast, if you don't starve to death, eat more, and consume it with war, then even in the most ordinary race, a powerful seed will be born.
The Beast God Realm does not need a powerful lower class, and there is no need for more divine beasts.
Therefore, Su Day, who was silent, saw that there was not half a grain in the warehouse in this planting manor, and all the old and weak women and children who could not escape. Because he knew that he would come, all the manors in front of Su Sun's forward track, in order to minimize the losses, temporarily evacuated a group of people and all the food, and it was really impossible to take it away.
"The Lord ......"
"Lord, ......"
The adult male spirit beast had already been summoned away in the early warning just now, and all the remaining women and children were trembling and lying on the ground to worship him, the 'Lord of the Lord'.
Su Sun even saw that there was a huge pig breeding spirit beast, which was holding its cub that was not yet a year old, held high in the air, as if it wanted to dedicate it to Su Sun - its expression was numb, its movements were skillful, and it seemed to have done similar actions many times.
In his eyes, the huge pig spirit beast, and all the other surrounding spirit beasts, without any human form, were all life, and they were intelligent beings. For Su Sun, this is a mother who dedicates her young daughter to the 'lord' of their faith.
Pigs are not born with low intelligence, and it is actually more difficult to grow fat, so most pigs are slaves and produce breeds.
This pig spirit beast seems to have just given birth, but there are no other cubs around, and there is no mate, so it should have been evacuated in the previous warning, and its child, looking at this skillful dedication action, the answer is naturally self-evident, Su Yan is now also very familiar with this system of 'dedication' and 'good fortune'.
In this regard, Su Yan closed his eyes slightly, sighed in his heart, and then he opened his eyes, and the blue and purple dragon pupils scanned in front of him - most of the spirit beasts, he did not sense the obvious 'resistance', 'hatred', and 'anger', only 'obedience', 'numbness', 'sadness' and 'confusion'.
The only point, the only point that can be called 'unwilling', comes from the pig-like spirit beast that lifts its cubs high. It is a crude desire to ask a mother to give up her child in order to give up other lives, a biological instinct that is unwilling. Long-term brainwashing and cultural edification have allowed this spirit beast to naturally make this kind of action, but it is an instinct that originates from the roots of the bloodline, but it cannot be completely broken.
This cannot be called 'love', it can only be called pure 'unwillingness'.
And because of this unwillingness, Su Sun, who was planning to leave this manor, stopped.
"You are intelligent beings."
Su Yan said this, the wingless dragon lowered his head, looked down at those 'small beasts', and said kindly: "Do you still want to continue to live such a life?" β
"Life...... Go on? β
All the beasts are confused, they don't understand what life is, they can't understand what it means to continue, and serving the beasts is the only purpose of their lives.
If the freedom of choice was given to a slave who had never experienced running freely, he would simply throw it aside, shackle himself again, and return to his familiar cage.
Seeing this, Su Yan smiled, and he changed his words.
"I'll give you a choice."
The Demon Devourer Lord stretched out his two huge dragon claws towards the beasts in front of him.
In one of the dragon's claws, a deep purple flame burned, like destruction burning in the abyss, a flame rising from the ruins, which contained cruelty, ferocity, fear, murderous intent, and all the will that could be called malice, and the dark curse burned around the demonic fire, stinging the eyes of all who observed it.
In the other dragon's claw, there was a blue light, and the light flickered gently, like the morning light that would emerge every morning, like the bright moonlight on a cloudless night, and all longings, prayers, hopes, and curiosity about the future were all swirling in the light, and the power of wishes that could not be clearly observed shone like stars.
"Choose, ask me for help, pay the price, let me bring you a different future."
"Or, let everything be as it is, and I'll just leave and do what I want to do."
Su Sun's will penetrated deep into the souls of all the spirit beasts present, and they could clearly understand the meaning of every word he spoke.
"Many people are disgusted with calling for help, believing it to be a cowardly act to prove that they are not capable. However, there is no shame in asking for help, people who are drowning need to call for help, people who are deep in the fire also need to call for help, although there will be people who work as rescuers to rescue those people, but now it seems that there are no such people in your world. β
"But just in time, I'm coming."
In the eyes of all the spirit beasts, Su Sun's dragon body became taller, he was like a judge who had the result of pronouncing reincarnation, and it was like an existence beyond what reincarnation - a huge immortal dragon, an individual who hated reincarnation, Su Sun, he patiently said to the many spirit beasts that had begun to tremble, had begun to 'think', and had begun to want to make a choice: "So ask for help, as long as you are willing to ask for help, it proves that you want to change, no matter whether others can hear it or not, but for yourself, It always makes sense,"
Just as the serpent in Eden tricked the unwise and ignorant primitives into plucking the divine fruit that they had the right to 'discern good from evil' and 'have the right to choose'.
A long silence ensued.
Even if it is said so clearly and clearly, the life that has been enslaved for too long cannot untie the shackles in one's heart.
And after this long silence, Su Day, who was a little disappointed, issued a final announcement.
"If even you don't feel that everything you have experienced is evil, you don't feel that you are oppressed, you think that you and your young, yourself and your relatives, deserve to be devoured by the beast, and you deserve to be exploited by the beast."
"Then I have nothing to say, I can only go over and kill them all."
After speaking, he turned around and once again walked in the direction where the divine beasts had gathered, preparing to stride away.
"But...... O great Lord......"
And the pig spirit beast that numbly presented his own cubs and handed them over to other fighting species and divine beasts, an 'unwilling' mother, looked at Su Tian's back, his tone was confused, and he didn't know how to ask well: "Is there any difference in all this you said?" β
And the wingless dragon turned his head, he opened his mouth full of sharp teeth, and smiled, "Of course there is." β
"You have a wish, pray to me."
"I echo your wishes, which is the rescue of the distressed, the help of the stronger to the weak, the help of the forerunner to the latecomer - I hope that when I am weak and fall into despair, I can be helped, so I will help you, this is called empathy."
"And your chaotic life, I shot for no reason, this is called the strong to the weak as they want, called self-care inexplicable, this kind of behavior itself is a kind of wanton behavior."
Of course, both of these are me, and I don't care, just as the difference between the good and the bad of the paper, the dividing line between good and evil, the retribution of the curse and the prayer of the will, they are all part of me. And what I can see is up to you. β
The 'she-beast' does not understand everything, she has enough intelligence, but her education is far from enough.
But even so, it can make a choice by virtue of the unwillingness in its heart.
No...... Now that it can make a choice, it proves that it is no longer an ignorant beast, but an intelligent life that has begun to pursue 'better' and 'change'.
So she replied, "I think." β
The 'mother' had a flashing in her mind about her life, the past of the cold rain and snow that had endured the wind and rain in the rough nest, the body that was often stuffy and coughing, and she could always recall all the crops that would always be taken away, the rations that would never be enough to eat, and the newborn cubs that would always be offered to the superiors and lords after a long gestation.
In fact, the superiors and lords are not short of food, and there are also some pigs in the dedication, and those pure beasts are even stronger than these spirit beasts - but they always say that ordinary, soulless and intelligent suckling pigs have no taste to eat, and they really eat spirit beast cubs alive to taste a different and unique taste.
"I want to change...... Your Excellency, I want to change ......"
Therefore, she lay on the ground and prayed to Su Sun: "It's just that I don't have anything, and I can't give ...... at any price."
"Anything goes."
Su Yan said casually: "As long as you think something has a little meaning, it's fine." β
And the mother searched her whole body, but she didn't find anything meaningful at all, but Su Sun looked at the little spirit beast beside her with great curiosity, she was picking up a grain of wheat from the ground at this time, which was one of the crops planted in the entire plantation, and this grain of wheat on the ground may be just the one that fell from those battle seeds when taxes were collected.
Noticing Su Sun's gaze, this little spirit beast that had been offered to Su Sun as blood food before suddenly trembled - it subconsciously and instinctively raised its hands and dedicated this 'wheat grain' to Su Sun.
- Is it already carved into the bones?
And after perceiving this instinct, the smile on Su Day's face disappeared again. He nodded slightly, hummed, and then stretched out a huge dragon claw, even more huge than the little spirit beast itself, and gently took this grain of wheat from the other party's hand.
"The contract is established."
At this moment, in the distance of the sky.
Powerful spiritual power fluctuations are surging from the clouds.
The feather clan, the scale clan, the beetle clan, the Kun clan, the kings of the four clans, and their guards, formed a mighty and incomparably majestic formation, like a dark cloud, from far away, in the direction of the Great Tree of the Living.
Four kings who can exert the power of 'immortal beasts', seventeen transcendent high-level and pinnacle, the king's personal guards, and one hundred and thirty-six, transcendental-level powerful spirit beasts.
At the same time, we must add tens of thousands of spirit beast armies that are marching on the ground, as well as ten times the number of slave slave army.
It's still too hasty, any divine beast in the Beast God Realm can pull out such an army, except for the high-end combat power, every divine beast is the supreme lord in their territory, and the Beast God Realm happens to be all soldiers, and in order to consume the number of beasts, the number of casualties is 100,000 per day, even if it is a million dead and wounded, it is not a big deal.
At this moment, more armies are actually converging towards the portal of the two realms in the territory of the Yu Clan, not only to catch the exploration team of the remnants of the fairy realm, but also to launch a counterattack on the other side of the world.
Flying at the forefront of the path, is a feather spirit beast, it has a spirit eye that can see through the soul body and energy, so it was appointed to the rank of forward commander, this kind of honor, immediately made it complacent, can't help but go back to his hometown after this battle to celebrate, hold a big feast.
At this moment, it could already see the thunderstorm clouds in the distance, as well as the incomparably powerful momentum of the enemy 'Venerable Lord'...... But so what? This time, there are four kings who are more noble than ordinary lords, and the other party will definitely bow down after seeing this military situation!
However, an inexplicable chill swept down its spine, causing the spirit bird's body to shiver instinctively.
Immediately afterwards, the dim clouds in the distance were suddenly illuminated by a burst of blue-purple spiritual light, and the gloomy clouds were dyed with a magnificent and brilliant blue and purple color like the sunset.
Then, there's the sense of danger that makes the beast's soul fly!
"High energy reaction ahead!"
The spirit bird at the head only had time to scream, and in the next moment, a dragon's breath roared with wind, thunderstorms, and blazing fire, and endless water vapor, and thus tore through the dim, hazy skyβit was like a meteorite rising diagonally from the earth against the sky, towards the distant sky!
It was engulfed in an instant - and then, there was no more.
"Spread out! Disperse! β
The orders of the kings of the divine beasts in the rear were quickly given, but it was too late, and at the moment when the dragon's breath pillar of light rose, the entire sky seemed to be split in half by a pillar of light, and the thick clouds were like paper cut by scissors, quickly splitting apart.
Boom β
It hit its target, the center of the Beast God Realm's army.
Then, with a dazzling aura that sent the air through a violent explosion, it ignited the sky, the clouds, the air, the flying spirit beasts, all swept away by the raging wind.
The formation of the spirit beast army was directly torn in half by this breath, and the high heat that was enough to burn the rock to ashes quickly spread in the formation, producing huge explosions again and again.
The air vibrated and even created large distorted areas as a result, and the wind tore through the vacuum, causing the wails and cries of pain to become fragmented, and the spirit beasts that were scorched and shattered by the shock wave fell from the sky like dumplings, but this was lucky, because there were more spirit beasts that did not even have a complete corpse, and the whole thing turned into ashes.
And a huge, perfectly circular aura shock wave mark was still slowly growing and spreading in the high part of the sky......
On the ground, the dragon staring into the distance watched the results of his raid, and he slowly exhaled a breath of scorching breath.
Then, he inhaled deeply.