In the small cave, Deng Yuxiang was like an emotionless interrogation machine.

Both sides exchanged questions and answers; the scene was relatively calm until Lu Ran heard something that made him exclaim:

"Collaboration? Humans collaborating with the Evil Demons?"

"Yes! Yes!" Lady Luo nodded hurriedly.

Lu Ran was briefly speechless, trying hard to digest this shocking news.

To survive and to collect Holy Spirit Energy, people truly do anything they can...

The Human Clan and the Evil Demon Clan have a deep-seated hatred!

For forty years, the atrocities of the Evil Demons against humans can't be described in a few words.

If not for the gods' intervention, humans might have been exterminated!

The blood and tears of humans have flowed for decades; how can such pain, shame, and deep hatred ever be washed away?

But within the Holy Spirit Mountain Realm, can humans and Evil Demons coexist in collaboration?

Lu Ran pondered whether he could bend and flex like that himself.

He could be the master of Evil Demons, enslaving them.

But to collude with Evil Demons for the sake of tasks ordained by the gods, compromising to survive, advancing and retreating together?

What a joke!

Putting aside national righteousness, just speaking about Lu Ran's own family...

The Evil Demon Clan murdered Lu Ran's father!

Deng Yuxiang noticed Lu Ran's unease and gently patted his arm, comforting him softly, "Sect Leader."

"Hmm." Lu Ran snapped back to reality, his face still somber.

Since entering the Holy Spirit Mountain, Lu Ran's understanding had been continuously challenged.

Deng Yuxiang's voice was rare and gentle: "The Night Charm we saw just now is quite special; it must have a remarkable intellect."

Lu Ran mused, "This should be the foundation of human-demon collaboration."

If the Evil Demons charged at humans mindlessly, how could collaboration even be discussed?

Lady Luo hastily added, "The Evil Demons within the Holy Spirit Mountain differ fundamentally from those invading the Human World."

Clearly, Lady Luo had completely submitted, seemingly afraid of being tormented again, she hurriedly said, "The Evil Demons within Holy Spirit Mountain, like us, come with tasks!

Their purpose is to collect Holy Spirit Energy!

They kill, but they also assess the situation; their cruel nature is suppressed..."

"Boom!!"

A sudden roar interrupted Lady Luo's words.

Even at the bottom of the canyon, deep within the cave, Lu Ran was startled by this earth-shattering sound.

Deng Yuxiang tensed up, momentarily, then turned her eyes towards the Dead Soul imprisoned, speaking coldly:

"What's happening in the sky?"

Lady Luo, more invested, said flatteringly, "Madam, we believe that it is the real God Demon Battlefield up there.

The Holy Spirit Energy we collect should have fallen from the God Demon Battlefield."

Deng Yuxiang remained expressionless, "Is that so."

Lady Luo confirmed, "Yes, Madam! We have already found a pattern!

Every time there's such a noise, about half a day later, Holy Spirit Energy will fall within the mountain."

"Half a day." Deng Yuxiang pondered and seemed to correlate.

Yesterday, when Lu Ran and she first came to this realm, it was at sunset when they heard the commotion in the sky.

The deafening sound continued into the deep night.

Lu Ran and she, also for the first time, saw Holy Spirit Energy drifting down this morning.

"Our Human Clan is indeed pathetic." Lu Ran leaned his head against the stone wall and muttered.

So, the gods and demons fight in the sky.

The energy lost or scattered from their battles is for the ants on the ground to collect?

Then, how to return the collected energy to the gods?

With the lives of the Human Clan!

People's souls after death, sincerely dedicated to the gods they revere, delivering stream after stream of energy.

This makes the Evil Demon side seem somewhat better.

At least the Evil Demon underlings within Holy Spirit Mountain are creations of the Evil Demons themselves, merely energy forms.

And on the side of the gods, it's purely taking the lives of human believers to reclaim Source Energy.

Moreover, the divine camp is not very united either.

Each sect of believers does not cooperate but competes fiercely for Holy Spirit Energy, to take back to offer to their own master.

Perhaps the special situation within Holy Spirit Mountain is precisely orchestrated by All Gods?

If human believers didn't kill each other, how would people hasten to die, turning into Soul Bodies to return energy?

"Boom!!"

Another earth-shattering sound.

In the massive sound waves, Deng Yuxiang heard the low murmur from the person beside her: "Life is as cheap as grass."

Indeed, a human's life is like grass.

Deng Yuxiang looked down, her eyes bleak.

She had long known that humans were servants to the gods.

But since coming to this realm, she had gained a new understanding of the "humble" status of humans.

What kind of talent, piety, luck, and tears does it take for a person to cultivate bitterly to the River Realm?

This person, finally becoming a Great Power of the Human World, can protect his hometown, shelter his fellowmen within a piece of heaven and earth.

Yet...

Such a person, in the eyes of the gods, holds the greatest significance of just being a worker ant.

Why?

Since Evil Demons can create their underlings, why can't the omnipotent gods create energy bodies?

Even if they really can't, is there no other way?

Why can't the gods descend into the Holy Spirit Mountain Realm and collect some energy themselves?

Are the souls of humans really that delicious?

"Boom!!"

The roar startled Deng Yuxiang awake.

She slightly turned her head, looking at the person beside her: "Lu Ran."

"Why did you call my name again... what's wrong?" Lu Ran saw the woman's serious expression and immediately stopped pondering other matters.

Deng Yuxiang spoke softly, "You said you wanted to slay all Evil Demons and then eradicate the disasters of the Human World."

Lu Ran nodded.

Deng Yuxiang took a deep breath, hesitated for a long time, then slowly said:

"Do you think that the gods will allow your approach?"

Lu Ran: "All Gods?"

Deng Yuxiang nodded: "Have you thought about it? Do All Gods truly desire peace in the Human World?"

Some things she wasn't unaware of, but the education from childhood, family, schools, society, and so on, implanted such deep-rooted concepts that she deliberately didn't dare to think deeply.

Lu Ran, without batting an eye: "Why think so?"

After gathering enough intelligence and witnessing various signs...

The intelligent ones would struggle, trying to break free from the shackles of thought.

Deng Yuxiang lowered her gaze, whispering, "Do you think that the battle between the gods and demons in the sky is genuinely life and death, harrowing confrontation...

Or is it just a match?"

"Why say it's a match?"

"Because of the result!" Deng Yuxiang's voice grew lighter, "Have you noticed, the outcome of the God Demon War results in an overall weakening of the Human Clan's strength.

The true meaning behind the God Demon War's existence...

Is it not a continuous harvest of the Human Clan's strong ones?"

Lu Ran's heart trembled, his gaze dark and uncertain.

He had always held a deep disrespect for the gods.

And the state within the Holy Spirit Mountain was also leading Deng Yuxiang to challenge the authorities in her heart.

As it turns out, once seeds of doubt are planted, they naturally grow uncontrollably.

Lu Ran continued to listen, planning to find a suitable opportunity to discuss his ideas with Deng Yuxiang.

Deng Yuxiang was lost in thought, drifting far with the topic: "Forty years ago, Evil Demons invaded the Human World. After three months of bloody massacre, gods descended.

At the critical moment concerning the survival of the Human Clan, the gods came to be saviors.

Since then, everyone has revered the gods, seeing them as the only saving straw of life.

Deng Yuxiang leaned slightly against Lu Ran's shoulder.

A rare gesture.

She was always the proud and assertive one, but for the words she was about to say, she seemed to need support?

"Since that time, Evil Demons invade the Human World on the fifteenth of every month, constantly reminding humans not to be complacent.

"The more ferocious the Evil Demon camp is, the more veneration and devotion humans have for the gods."

"Generation after generation, batch after batch, humans pour into each sect, continually offering the Power of Faith to the gods for survival."

"Without Evil Demons in the world, would humans still follow the gods with such fervor, this devotion, in such madness?"

"So Lu Ran, tell me..."

Deng Yuxiang turned her head: "You want to slay demons, will All Gods allow it?"

Lu Ran also turned, looking into her complex eyes: "I thought you'd ask me if the gods and demons are in cahoots."

Deng Yuxiang stared into Lu Ran's eyes: "All along, we only hold faith, or perhaps harbor fantasies. We neither want nor dare to speculate.

But whether we admit it or not, objectively speaking, the gods and demons have already become allies."

evil demons require the negative emotions of the Human Clan.

god needs the Power of Faith of the Human Clan.

the two sides perfectly achieve this goal through the fifteenth night each month.

whether gods and demons are enemies is another matter, but they must be partners.

"You, you two..." Lady Luo stared at the pair, speechless.

Decades of devout worship made her see this young couple before her as being so blatantly rebellious.

Mention not that the two of them were merely detecting some signs, rashly speculating; even if there was ironclad evidence here, Lady Luo, with her fanaticism towards the gods, would willingly cover her eyes, plug her ears.

Control over an individual or a group can take many forms.

such as emotional binding, such as interest binding.

And then... hmm.

people in front of the small Divine Sculpture, devoutly praying day after day, have already thoroughly washed themselves.

"Heh." Deng Yuxiang painfully closed her eyes.

Was she not also a believer?

She is even a mighty Vast River!

And the stronger a believer's strength, naturally, the more devout they become, the deeper their faith...

If not for her having been expelled by the North Wind Sect, almost having her life forcefully taken by Lord Beifeng, Deng Yuxiang's heart at this moment would likely struggle much more, suffer a hundredfold more pain!

"Boom!!"

Lu Ran also leaned against the stone wall, already accustomed to the earth-shattering sound.

He followed the woman's thoughts, combining with his own ideas, and spoke softly: "So, the realm of Holy Spirit Mountain is the burial ground for our Human Clan's strong ones.

gods and demons will never allow humans to rise.

Humans cannot be strong enough to defeat the Evil Demons, nor threaten the gods, the status quo must not change.

Therefore, the battle in the sky between gods and demons will never end.

As for the Human World...

Evil Demons will constantly invade the Human World, and human believers led by gods will never achieve victory.

The gods and demons each draw their needs from the Human Clan, devouring blood.

And we humans can only live generation after generation under the feet of gods and demons...

Deng Yuxiang lowered her head, following Lu Ran's words, softly said:

"Servants for generations."

"Servants for generations." Lu Ran sighed deeply, silently closing his eyes.

The truth,

Could it be like this?

"Boom!"

The massive sound once again shattered the earth and sky.

And amid this terrifying sound, a familiar phrase seemed to flash across his mind:

"Don't lose yourself."

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