Chapter 603 - 274: Invincible Brother Wu Chooses to Use His Brain to Solve Problems (Part 2)
But the Blood River Demon Venerable has no choice but to leave.
Lu Wenwu seemed to give him the right to choose, but in fact, there was none.
The fact that he can maintain his current peak state without falling is already a special favor from Lu Wenwu.
As for the road ahead?
It had already been cut off by Lu Wenwu during their conversation and laughter.
If he doesn’t grit his teeth and go down a new path, ascension will become impossible.
After cultivating for a thousand years, how could he be willing to stop here?
The Blood River Demon Venerable also wanted to see a higher landscape!
If he couldn’t become a true demon, it might as well be better to wash clean.
Even if he couldn’t completely wash clean, coming ashore would be better than soaking in the river with half the body in the mud.
The Blood River Demon Venerable also had his own little thoughts.
The Demonic Dao was far ahead of the Immortal Dao Alliance in cultivating mortals.
After developing for a hundred or eighty years, when the mortals of both sides are compared, who is truly the righteous path could be hard to say!
Of course, the premise of all this was that the Demonic Dao must be completely unified, completing the overall strategic planning previously mentioned by the Dragon Emperor, uniting the peculiar powers of the Demonic Dao into one!
In the hundreds of years before, the Blood River Demon Venerable had not gone about this simply because he thought it was unnecessary.
At that time, he believed that expending the effort and labor to conquer other sects was a thankless task, where in the end a group of Demon Venerables would plot and scheme against each other, ultimately restricting each other, and it was better to just maintain the status quo.
After all, the territory of the Blood Refining Demon Sect was already large enough, and more didn’t have much meaning.
Now, ever since Lu Wenwu’s guidance, he felt that his thinking had become enlightened, and he couldn’t help but curse himself as a fool!
The Dragon Emperor is right!
No wonder we were being oppressed by the righteous path!
Cooperation and win-win are the truth!
The things the Dragon Emperor mentioned before like the Human Emperor Banner, Ten Thousand People’s Umbrella, Nirvana Hall... all sound promising!
Even if breeding mortals is unreliable, perhaps breeding some demon beasts could work?
If quality doesn’t suffice, quantity will fill it in!
By then, gathering a million dog souls for the Dog Emperor Banner could make others lost in confusion!
The Blood River Demon Venerable’s eyes grew brighter, and his thoughts became clearer.
Seeing the Blood River Demon Venerable’s increasingly clear thinking, Lu Wenwu smiled and continued to give him some pointers.
For instance, letting the Joyful Union Sect assist women in prenatal checkups, painless abortions;
Having the Blood Refining Demon Sect open medical clinics, relying on surgeries to collect blood or organizing mortal blood donations;
Letting the White Bone Sect, Five Viscera Sect, and those dealing with flesh, viscera, and bones become funeral masters, changing from earth burials to practical burials;
Or having the Desire Demon Sect specifically collect negative energies from places full of grievances like casinos, courts, schools, etc., to enhance work efficiency and comfort...
These were all professionally aligned.
Relying on some knowledge mastered on Blue Star, Lu Wenwu could easily help Demonic Cultivators find suitable "whitening" careers.
Those cruel methods of refining magical treasures and spell cultivation techniques should be eliminated, and what can’t be eliminated should be replaced with demon beasts, achieving the same effect.
As for why there hasn’t been replacement over these many years...
Isn’t it mainly because using humans as cultivation materials sends a more terrifying message when deployed?
When someone wields a duster, unfurling the Forest of Ghosts Prison with countless resentful souls howling, it sends chills down one’s spine.
If you swing the Ten Thousand Souls Banner and out come tens of thousands of white, chubby pig spirits, and then swing the Ten Thousand Spirits Umbrella with clucking hens appearing, wouldn’t that be degrading?
Even though the power is the same, and sometimes using animal spirits can be more powerful, the appearance is just not impressive!
It lacks the sense of oppression!
Those familiar would know it’s a Demonic Cultivator, those unfamiliar might think it’s a butcher from a meat processing factory!
But this wasn’t something Lu Wenwu should worry about.
It’s a problem for the Blood River Demon Venerable.
He’s the one who needs to worry about his future path.
Lu Wenwu didn’t spend all this time chatting here with this guy just because he was bored and looking for someone to brag to.
It’s still to figure out a way for his own task, isn’t it?
During this time of "undercover inspection" in the Cultivation Realm, he became increasingly sure of his hypothesis, with his confidence in it rising to at least half.
By then, avoiding a fight would naturally be the best outcome.
Even if a fight does break out, not asking much from these vile Demonic Cultivators, just hoping they don’t become too much of a hindrance would suffice.
Otherwise, if Lu Wenwu has just driven the Immortal Dao Alliance to battle with the Heavenly Dao Oath, and the Demonic Cultivators behind him suddenly start a tactical house swap celebration, wouldn’t that put me in a bind?
So, coming to the Blood Refining Demon Sect to control the Blood River Demon Venerable, stabilizing him to slightly adjust his ongoing "governance" concept and then amplify it across the entire Demonic Dao, was one of Lu Wenwu’s purposes for being here.
Controlling it himself would be too troublesome.
Moreover, he doesn’t understand it, nor does he have the time.
Some unfamiliar matters should be handed over to those in the know for maximum efficiency.
Of course, it’s still the previous statement.
Lu Wenwu was merely preparing in advance for the worst possible outcome.
If it wasn’t as he expected, ultimately not requiring a world war, then before returning, he would freely embark on a thorough massacre.
The true enemy of the world.
When there were no enemies, Lu Wenwu became the world’s enemy, the most powerful nightmare!
Did you really think Brother Wu was someone who’d persuade others to put down the butcher’s knife and become a Buddha immediately, a century-old moral paragon?
There are plenty of vermin in the righteous path, and even more snakes and rats in the ranks of the Demonic Cultivators.
Cut them all down and surely there’d be grievances, skip one and you’d definitely miss plenty of slippery ones.
In such a "debate" that disguises learning with ignorance, time swiftly passed half a month.
The materials written on Lu Wenwu’s list were almost entirely collected, and it hadn’t taken much of his effort, with South Peak acting very swiftly on this matter.
Currently, they were only missing one rare main material named the Void Spirit Stone for the complete collection.
This item has an extremely low probability of being extracted from the shell of the Void Spirit Turtle after naturally dying with a Nascent Soul cultivation or above and is mostly found only within the Demon Race Ancestral Court, with very few occurrences of it flowing outside.
South Peak found this truly challenging to collect, and had not managed to obtain it.
Their expectations weren’t set on completing the entire collection within the Demonic Dao, and Lu Wenwu wasn’t too concerned about it.
Besides, he had originally planned to visit the Demon Race side for a while, even though he wasn’t too willing about it.
After settling payments, he left gracefully, heading towards the Demon Race’s territory.
The Demon God Alliance, embroiled in endless arguments over their next actions, was yet unaware that the person and dragon they longed for were automatically heading towards the Demon Race’s main base.
As for the Demonic Dao’s side...
The day after Lu Wenwu left, the entire Demonic Dao exploded.
Pretending to convene a Demon Venerable Alliance meeting, the Blood River Demon Venerable lured the others away, while a Divinity Transformation stage member led the Blood Refining Demon Palace disciples to pacify thirteen sects within three days, clearing all previously opposing forces.
Even those Divinity Transformation members guarding their mountain gates weren’t spared.
Even though the Blood Refining Demon Palace paid a huge price for this, all opposing forces were completely eradicated!
Leaving just a bunch of fence-sitters.
There were no true allies in the Demonic Dao, only opposition and fence-sitters.
When you are strong, everyone wants to be your friend, loyal dogs they are.
When weak, everyone wishes to swallow you whole, hungry wolves they are.
This is the survival status of the Demonic Dao!
In the Demon Venerable Alliance, the Blood River Demon Venerable secretly united with four other late-stage Divinity Transformation members, exploding in fury and killing seven late-stage Divinity Transformation members, shaking the entire Demonic Dao!
Although he was timid and pale like a henchman in front of Lu Wenwu,
In front of other Demonic Cultivators, he was the heavens of Demonic Cultivators!
A visible yet untouchable contemporary pinnacle of Demonic Cultivators!
Once all opposing forces were completely eradicated, coupled with the news about Lu Wenwu being a guest at the Blood Refining Demon Palace and discussing Dao for half a month not escaping interested parties, the Blood River Demon Venerable astonishingly swiftly became the ruler of the entire Demonic Dao.
The entire process took less than a week!
The high-levels of the Immortal Dao Alliance were dumbstruck upon learning of this.
Did the Violent Dragon Demon Venerable manage this huge feat just in such a short absence?
Did he support the puppet with light speed and unify the entire Demonic Dao?
I mean, this is actually a person!?
Due to the lack of information flow, a beautiful misunderstanding was born.
The Demonic Dao credited Lu Wenwu’s single-handed achievements against the Immortal Dao Alliance to his absurd power.
The righteous path attributed the Blood River Demon Venerable’s unifying success to Lu Wenwu’s behind-the-scenes support, believing he intervened secretly to assist.
Both sides found it quite reasonable...