Novel Full Chapter 518
Chapter 518: Chapter 44: Eloquent and Persuasive, Cunningly Deceiving Chapter 518: Chapter 44: Eloquent and Persuasive, Cunningly Deceiving “`
Ling Yunpo wandered around the clan’s territory for a while, getting acquainted with many Vermilion Bird cultivators.
He was eloquent and persuasive, with a silver tongue that allowed him to speak sweet words whether he addressed children, youths, or elderly women, quickly turning relationships from strangers to acquaintances.
Meanwhile, his conversations with clan members were meticulously recorded in secret and reported in detail to the clan leader and two elders.
“Clan education?
What does he want with that?” The clan leader felt embarrassed as he saw how many simpletons of the clan were revealing all under Feng Jiu’s clever questioning.
It was too shameful.
The Vermilion Bird clan of today had no so-called clan education.
The Demon Locking Tower isolated the inside from the outside, to the extent that not only were scripture scrolls and jade slips hard to come by, but even ordinary paper was scarce.
Furthermore, the internal competition among the demon race within the tower was fierce, and with the periodic incursions of Shushan Sect disciples undertaking trials, cultural transmission within the clan had suffered several breaks in lineage, leaving behind very few useful records.
“We can almost rule out the possibility that he is from the Xu Family of Southern Heaven,” said an elder by the side.
Information could be stolen, identities could be faked, but thinking patterns are hard to mimic…
and even harder to understand each other.
The Human Race occupied the vast Divine Land with an almost endless population, so they would not be concerned whether the number of newborns this year was large or small.
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With talents emerging continuously across the Nine Provinces, they would simply choose the best to join their ranks, thus they would not care whether the quality of child education was good or bad.
But the Demon Race was different.
In terms of numbers alone, the Demon Race even far surpassed the Human Race.
However, with deep-seated grudges between different species making unity impossible, any single race when isolated is just fodder for the Human Race.
The Eastern Emperor Realm is the best example: all driven there by the Human Race, after so many years they had no desire to counterattack the Mortal Realm, only intent on internal strife and killing each other…
It is for this reason that they are very sensitive to the number of newborns in a clan and the quality of clan education, as it determines how many yao will become transformation capable cultivators, how many Demon Kings will arise, and whether there will be ancient ancestors.
First, we can exclude the possibility that Feng Jiu is a human spy.
So, what exactly is the background of this person that makes him so interested in the basic situation of the Vermilion Bird clan inside the tower?
“Why not let the ancient ancestor ask him directly?” suggested an elder.
Within the clan land, Ling Yunpo was still chatting with the Vermilion Birds, feeling a slight headache.
These Feathered Clan cultivators were quite talkative, with voices that were sharp and fast, incessant, and quite headache-inducing.
“Feng Jiu, Feng Jiu!” A little chick attempted to climb onto his knee, “Are you my uncle?
My mom is called Feng Si…”
Mrs.
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Feng Si smiled shyly nearby, seemingly enjoying the sight of her daughter getting close to this “foreigner.”
Ling Yunpo lifted her down, but she climbed up again, making him quite exasperated, so he could only gently negotiate with Feng Si:
“…Ma’am, I think it’s better if children don’t climb around recklessly, you wouldn’t want your daughter to get hurt, would you?”
“Oh dear, my daughter likes you very much,” Mrs.
Feng Si was not only unworried but gave him a coquettish glance, “It looks like Feng Jiu could be a good daddy~”
Please don’t be like this, ma’am, your husband is still somewhere back in the crowd, right?
“Feng Jiu, come with me for a moment, the clan leader wants to see you.” Luckily, his elder uncle Feng Yi finally showed up, taking his niece from Ling Yunpo’s leg.
Ling Yunpo followed him to the base of the Fusang Tree, where the clan leader and two elders were waiting.
“You should know who you’re about to meet, right?” The clan leader asked with a hint of mystery in his voice after Feng Yi had left.
Ling Yunpo saw his serious expression and the “I’ve got you figured out” look in his eyes, so he also immediately put on his acting skills and said indifferently:
“Hmm, then please lead the way.”
Everyone entered the body of the Fusang Tree, spiraling down along the stairs until they finally reached a small room deep inside.
Inside the room, an aged yet hale elder was meditating, dressed in simple and plain clothes.
Just one glance at him, and Ling Yunpo knew that this had to be the ancient ancestor of the Vermilion Bird clan.
The demon race practiced clan culture, where the mightiest within a clan was the Immortal Rank ancestor.
In the Demon Locking Tower, most clans lacked an ancient ancestor.
Yet a clan that boasts a three-digit number of transformation-capable cultivators within the Demon Locking Tower is very powerful, surely not lacking an ancient ancestor.
Among the ancient ancestors of the demon race, there were both strong and weak: the strongest, like Ying Long, were on par with Daluo Golden Immortals; the weakest similar to Earth Immortals.
And the Vermilion Bird ancient ancestor before him, according to the Kunlun Mirror, was roughly at the realm of a Golden Immortal.
“You must be Feng Jiu?” The Vermilion Bird ancient ancestor opened his eyes and looked at him expressionlessly.
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“It was me,” Ling Yunpo nodded as he spoke.
“Why have you come into the Demon Locking Tower?” the Vermilion Bird ancestor asked slowly.
“If Marquis of Mount Tu can come, why can’t I?” Ling Yunpo retorted, “Does our Vermilion Bird clan, ruling over the South State, really have less capability than the Celestial Fox of Qingqiu in the West State?”
Upon hearing this, the Vermilion Bird ancestor fell into deep thought, then slowly began to smile:
“As you can see, our clan is now in a state of decline.”
“The number of newborns is still healthy, but the education at our clan school is almost nonexistent.
Many of our people can barely use their bloodline supernatural powers and have to rely on claws and beaks to fight.”
“Within this secret realm, every thirty-nine cycles, it will interconnect with other secret realms, and the clans on both sides can initiate wars against each other.”
“This is a blatant strategy of internal consumption that Shushan uses against us, but we have no other choice…
If we do not invade other clans to strengthen ourselves, they will come to invade us.”
Ling Yunpo pondered for a moment and then nodded:
“Our Feathered Clan’s strength lies in mobility.
In terms of the form of war within the Demon Locking Tower, if we choose to hunker down in our nest, it’s like admitting defeat from the start.”
“Only by choosing to attack the opponents proactively and pushing the frontline forward can we create enough strategic depth.”
“It seems you are not an ordinary cultivator of the Feathered Clan,” the Vermilion Bird ancestor said with a faint smile, “What does the clan mean by this?”
Ling Yunpo answered calmly:
“The clan doesn’t have any particular stance.
It’s just that, because Marquis of Mount Tu secretly aided the Jiaolong clan before, some elders mentioned it during the clan meeting.”
The Vermilion Bird ancestor listened silently and quickly pieced together the truth:
Previously, the Marquis of Mount Tu had helped the Jiaolong clan escape from the Demon Locking Tower.
When the news reached the main branch of the Vermilion Bird in the Eastern Emperor Realm, it’s likely that some elder proposed, “We also have clan members trapped in the Demon Locking Tower.
Can we send someone to help them?”
Of course, this rash suggestion was met with silence.
After all, countering the Mortal Realm is simply unrealistic, and the Vermilion Birds in the tower couldn’t possibly escape back, so why bother investing resources in that direction?
The failure of the Jiaolong clan’s revolt proved that Shushan still had not reached its demise.
Everyone is realistic; even a penny is split to spend it wisely, so the compatriots imprisoned in the Demon Locking Tower will just have to suffer a bit more.
And behind this Feng Jiu, there undoubtedly stood an elder who sympathized with the clan members inside the Demon Locking Tower.
As to who that might be, there’s no need to ask for now; let’s first see if there are any benefits to be gained.
“We have little to offer,” the Vermilion Bird ancestor said as he let out a long sigh, “What can the envoy offer us?”
“Cultivation techniques,” Ling Yunpo said softly, “The lineage must not be broken.”
Cultivation techniques…
ah, I should have thought of this.
The Vermilion Bird ancestor knew well: elixirs, magic artifacts, those were all cultivation resources and could not be given away.
Only bloodline cultivation techniques could be simply copied onto a jade slip without any real cost.
Yet, what our clan lacks the most right now is precisely these techniques…
It’s not just the clan members; even he, the Vermilion Bird ancestor, who had cultivated to the Immortal Rank alone within the Demon Locking Tower, probably had a lesser grasp of the bloodline mystical abilities than this envoy from the main branch, simply due to the lack of cultivation technique inheritance.
“The intention of the elders,” Ling Yunpo suddenly said, “is to see if our clan can gain a foothold within the Demon Locking Tower first.”
His implication was that investing would depend on the corresponding potential.
If the Vermilion Bird branch within the Demon Locking Tower didn’t even have a cultivator of the ancestor’s realm, who knows when they might be wiped out by other clans, making it unnecessary to allocate resources.
“What proof does the envoy require?” the Vermilion Bird ancestor asked with a faint smile.
“The Nine Revolutions Vermilion Phoenix Pill,” Ling Yunpo said in a stern tone.
“Taking one of my feathers can also serve as proof,” the Vermilion Bird ancestor tried to negotiate.
The Nine Revolutions Vermilion Phoenix Pill, although he, as an ancestor, could refine it, the output was not high and it was somewhat painful to use as proof.
“Only the Nine Revolutions Vermilion Phoenix Pill is impossible for the Xu Family of Southern Heaven to possess,” Ling Yunpo insisted firmly.
Ah, the Xu Family of Southern Heaven…
the Vermilion Bird ancestor let out a deep sigh.
On the surface, the main branch in the Eastern Emperor Realm was worried that the envoy might collude with the Xu Family of Southern Heaven and get some Phoenix heritage item to falsely claim that the Demon Locking Tower branch was still alive.
In reality, it was all about the elder behind Feng Jiu wanting to hoard an extra Nine Revolutions Vermilion Phoenix Pill using these costless techniques as an excuse.
With that thought, the Vermilion Bird ancestor took a small wooden bottle out of his bosom.