Wang Jiu's judgment, although with such and such subjective factors, is undoubtedly the truth for Zhao Shenlu.

On the issue of the demon race, if the judgment of the Outer Heaven Divine Sword is not the truth, then what is the truth, the Demon Emperor's golden mouth?

So when he heard Wang Jiu's conclusion, Zhao Shenlu's heart suddenly swelled with great relief...... with loss.

The expected second immortal and demon war seems to be going to happen.

Even if it did, it would be many, many years later, at least she wouldn't see that day. So that day had nothing to do with her.

Zhao Shenlu is such a realistic and optimistic character.

Otherwise, it would be impossible to persist in pursuing a sword that is impossible to respond to human feelings.

"Now that the demons are extinct, can we celebrate?"

Wang Jiu asked, "Celebrate?" ”

"Yes, celebrate the victory of the Immortal Demon War, we fought hard to win such a desperate battle back then, we should celebrate it anyway, right?"

Zhao Shenlu said, looking at Wang Jiu with a little expectation, waiting for his affirmative reply.

On such inconsequential details, Wang Jiu generally would not refuse the proposals of the people around him, because according to Wang Jiu's theory, he was only responsible for what he was good at, that is, killing the demons. But everything else is left to the experts.

It includes all social behaviors in human society.

Therefore, when the Immortal Demon War was at the beginning, it was the Ten Thousand Immortals League that was jointly led by the Outer Heaven Divine Sword and the Nine Immortal Venerables to complete the turnaround, and the Outer Heaven Divine Sword was only responsible for actual combat, and the rest such as uniting the families of the various major sects and coaxing some thorns who did not know whether they were alive or dead to be cannon fodder...... It's all in the hands of the Nine Immortals.

Celebrations are of course included.

Before the end of the war between immortals and demons, although human beings have been facing heavy pressure to survive, there has never been a shortage of celebration banquets.

According to Zhao Shenlu's explanation at the time, this is a necessary part of human socialization, and human beings are fragile creatures, and it is impossible to face the changes in the battle situation calmly and rationally forever like the Outer Heaven Sword. Pessimism when the situation is disadvantaged and optimistic when it is superior, and these emotions need to be vented.

Therefore, human beings will have funerals, weddings, celebration banquets and other ritual behaviors, through this standardized ritual behavior, to help human beings vent their emotions in their hearts, so as to restore a rational combat state.

In Wang Jiu's understanding, this is like the bullet casing that exits from the back of the barrel when the Yuan Magnetic Cannon is fired, which is a necessary garbage. It's garbage, but it's necessary.

And Zhao Shenlu wants to use this link to implement her own beliefs, as long as she can persuade Wang Jiu to hold a celebration banquet, she will have the opportunity to advance the later ceremonies.

According to the Kyushu period, the peculiarities of certain places, such as Qingzhou, must be followed by the most intimate acts between men and women after a grand feast. This is not only the nature of human beings to pursue pleasure, but also a reproductive decision based on the instability of the future and the satisfaction of reality.

As long as Wang Jiu is willing to accept this explanation - in fact, this explanation is also true and reasonable, and then Zhao Shenlu can further deduce that to preside over such a ceremony, you must personally devote yourself to it, because the reproduction of the sexes is a very private behavior for human beings, even Qingzhou, which has the most avant-garde thinking concepts in Kyushu, is also considered inappropriate for this kind of behavior to appear in public.

Therefore, even if it is carnival and promiscuity, it must be confined to a certain private area, isolated from the outside world, that is, excellent security is required. So how do you convince the people involved that it's safe here? Of course, the convener or moderator is also involved.

So as the proposer of the celebration banquet, Zhao Shenlu has the responsibility to participate in it.

But the reproduction of the sexes, of course, it is impossible to entertain oneself alone, and in that case, it also seems that the host's participation is not sincere enough, so of course Zhao Shenlu needs to find a partner.

And this companion, of course, can't be identified casually, for high-level immortal cultivators, those mortals, and those who are not highly cultivated, are no different from dead things, and intercourse with these people, in a sense, is still self-entertainment, and cannot be widely recognized by the participants, which will seriously affect the quality of the celebration banquet.

Then next, the person who is qualified to be worthy of Zhao Shenlu is now looking for the entire Xiangzhou Continent, and there is only one person. So as the leader and core figure of the Immortal and Demon War, Wang Jiu naturally has the responsibility to take on the heavy responsibility of the host.

The above logical reasoning is rigorous and thorough, which can be called seamless, Zhao Shenlu pondered repeatedly in his heart, but he couldn't find any flaws, let alone a reason for Wang Jiu's refusal. In fact, during the Kyushu era, she was once close to succeeding, but she fell short because Concubine Shang was obstructing it—although in retaliation, she also sabotaged Concubine Shang's plans several times.

But now that Concubine Shang is no longer alive, then the most exciting part will come.

"There's no need for a celebration feast."

“…… Yes? ”

Wang Jiu said: "I remember you said that the meaning of the celebration banquet is to motivate the participants and the bystanders, but as the only remaining participants, we do not need this kind of ritual to motivate ourselves, and the bystanders are long gone. For the current Xiangzhou people, the Immortal and Demon War is just an unverifiable legend that happened in the flood era, and in terms of human affordability, it is more conducive to their development not to let them know the truth, so there is no need for a celebration banquet. ”

This rigorous logic made Zhao Shenlu dumbfounded.

"Wait, it's rare to win the battle of immortals and demons, don't you really need to celebrate? Seriously, I've been waiting for this day for a long time, and on the day of the decisive battle, my biggest regret before I died was that I couldn't participate in the celebration banquet after the war...... Now it's rare for me to come back from the dead, so I should be rewarded for my achievements during the Great War, hold a small banquet, and then indulge myself, what's wrong? ”

Wang Jiu thought about it and admitted that Zhao Shenlu's statement was not unreasonable.

As one of the Nine Immortals, she also made great contributions during the Great War of Immortals and Demons. In addition to the integration of the Ten Thousand Immortals League, she is also the undoubted backbone of the frontal battlefield. Until the decisive battle with the Demon Emperor, Zhao Yueming, who had the cultivation of the Heavenly Collapse Realm, was the source of the nightmare of countless demons.

As one of the only remaining participants, then, she was indeed entitled to ask for a celebratory feast, if not as an incentive, but as a reward.

"Okay, when you go back, let's hold a celebration banquet as you wish, but there are only two of you and me in the participants, isn't there a little less?"

"Two people are just right!" Zhao Shenlu was categorical, "There is no need for a third person to make trouble!" ”

"Well, your reward, of course, is up to you, but now do the work at hand." After Wang Jiu finished speaking, he turned the tip of his sword and pointed deeper into the cabin.

Only then did Zhao Shenlu remember that they still had an important job at hand: exploring the Netherworld.

Wang Jiu said again: "Since the judgment has nothing to do with the demon race, the previous logical chain has to be reorganized, Xiaobai's talent has nothing to do with the demon race, but the magical power of nature, so what we have to do now is to analyze this power, turn it into our own use, and cultivate more kendo wizards." In this way, even if there are new alien invasions in the future, we will be able to handle it with ease. ”

As he spoke, Wang Jiu had already turned a corner first, going deeper into the ship.

The interior of the ship still retains the same as it was hundreds of years ago—the traces of the exploration team's struggle to survive are everywhere, the walls and floors are mottled and broken, and the air is still filled with the despair of that time.

In front of a cabin door, Wang Jiu saw a middle-aged woman standing on the ground, holding a mirror in her arms, motionless. From Wang Jiu's point of view, he could just see the image reflected in the mirror, it was a young girl in her twenties, the girl had a beautiful face, and her eyes were closed at this time, like a princess sealed in an ice coffin, but the woman outside the coffin had wide eyes, and her face was full of despair.

The contrast between the inside and outside of the mirror is like a horror play. After a while, Zhao Shenlu cautiously levitated, and when he saw this scene, he couldn't help but sigh.

"The distortion of time and space has reached this point? To say that it is the power of nature is really incredible. ”

"But it's even more incredible to say that this isn't the power of nature."

If it's not a force of nature, it's man-made, what man? The possibility of the demon race has been denied, and this kind of magical power of time and space confusion has not been really mastered even by the Nine Immortal Venerables back then, so ......

Zhao Shenlu sighed: "Okay, nature, I'm convinced." ”

Then, even more incredible things came one after another.

They met the left-faced boy and the right-cheeked elderly chief advisor of the expedition, and the left and right sides of the body showed diametrically opposed qualities, as if the brutal butcher had taken half of the two living people and then forcibly glued them together.

They also saw what was supposed to be the oldest and oldest researcher on the team, but died in swaddling clothes.

The two of them went all the way down the passage, and the magnificent scenes that occurred due to the chaos of time and space emerged one after another, and even the ship itself was affected, and the internal space continued to pass through and break points, making the original simple and straightforward structure of the ship become like a huge labyrinth.

In the labyrinth, desperate corpses can be seen everywhere, and it is obvious that a considerable number of people in the expedition team were lost in this maze at the last moment.

"Here...... It reminds me of the playground of the demons. ”

Zhao Shenlu walked halfway and couldn't help but say.

Wang Jiu said: "There are indeed some similarities. ”

At the beginning of the war between the immortals and demons, the attitude of the demons towards humans was like a giant trampling on ants, everything was routine, and what the demons needed was complete extinction, so they would neither leave a living mouth for humans, nor would they have the heart to play a game of cat and mouse. But in the middle and late stages, as the battle situation gradually stalemates or even reverses, the attitude of the demons has become complicated.

On the one hand, the demons have to admit that the strategy of frontal flat push and casual crushing before the war no longer works, in the front-line battlefield, the demons who fought recklessly and bravely suffered extremely heavy casualties, and the assassins who repeatedly performed miraculous feats in the war that destroyed all worlds also began to be constantly killed by humans, and there was even a tragedy in which the Shadow Demon Legion was wiped out overnight. Based on this, the demons had to change their policy and compromise to a certain extent.

If victory can be achieved by breaking the will of the enemy, then it is acceptable to postpone extinction for the time being.

To put it simply, the demons are no longer slaughtering humans at any cost, but will choose to let some humans live according to local conditions, and then set traps on this life path. In this way, the demons no longer need to face the humans who are fighting against the water, but the deserters who are crowded on the escape road and have their backs to the enemy.

It is easier to hunt down deserters than to fight and mourn.

And the demon playground is a new invention of the demon in that period, the first appeared in Jingzhou and Hongzhou, there are many nail strongholds in these two places, although the demon occupies the whole territory of Jingzhou and Hongzhou, but the human resistance army has always been active in the occupation area, these people know that the demon does not need to be captured, so they will always fight to the death, causing very heavy losses to the demon.

Then the demons have the design of the playground, create a huge field, invite all survivors to go, as long as they complete the game items according to the rules of the playground, they can return to human territory from the blockade gap of Jingzhou and Hongzhou.

This kind of grandiose conspiracy attracted a considerable number of survivors to challenge, and in the playground, about one-third of the people were able to successfully clear the level and return to human territory.

This percentage is certainly not high, but it is enough to lure more survivors who are determined to die to take risks with trepidation.

As long as they can clear the customs, they can return to Zhongzhou and return to the embrace of human civilization, and as warriors fighting desperately in enemy-occupied areas, they will naturally receive due rewards and care...... Even if you don't consider these things, if you can return to the front line in Zhongzhou to fight side by side with your comrades, and bring with you the spirit of never giving up when they are in enemy-occupied areas, they will definitely be able to inspire more people to fight bravely, and in this way, it is better than surviving in enemy-occupied areas.

Of course, there was nothing wrong with this idea, so the demons wiped out two-thirds of the humans in the occupied area with almost no effort.

And the human beings who successfully returned to Zhongzhou did not bring more will to resist to the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance as expected.

Almost every human monk who survived the playground was in utter despair, and although they were physically alive, their spirits had already been tortured to death in the playground.

Now, the desperate corpses in the ship's maze make Zhao Shenlu unable to think of the playgrounds in Jingzhou and Hongzhou.

"I remember...... Kaishan once swore that he must destroy all the demon playgrounds, but unfortunately until the end of the war, we failed to push the battle line back to Jingzhou and Hongzhou, but fortunately, when you duel with the Demon Emperor, Kyushu was torn to pieces, and the playground naturally ceased to exist, which can be regarded as a help to him. However, I didn't expect that after 10,000 years, the demon playground seemed to have reappeared. ”

Wang Jiu did not say a word about this.

Indeed, the scene really looks like a playground for demons, and in a limited space, demons will show off their killing skills to the fullest, and torture and kill two-thirds of the participants in an incredible way. And then leave their corpses behind - before that, the demons slaughtered humans and never left corpses.

However, all this can't have anything to do with the demons, everything is a miracle of nature, that's all.

——

After traveling for a long, long time, after passing countless strange things, the two finally came to the captain's room, which was the room where the head of the expedition and the then Holy Sect Sect Master was located.

The layout in the room was generous and simple, obviously the Holy Sect's budget was not a year or two, and there was a beautiful woman with white hair in the room, she was lying on the chaise longue, covered with a thin quilt, as if she was the eldest lady taking a nap at noon, but the completely static chest showed that she had long lost her vitality.

Beside the woman, there was a crystal clear jade, apparently a suicide note she had left behind.

Seeing this scene, both Wang Jiu and Zhao Shenlu were taken aback.

Who is this!?

"If I'm not mistaken, the person who was the head of the expedition at that time should be him, right!?" Zhao Shenlu said while turning out a copy of the information of the inspection group from his arms, the first page is the information of the head of the regiment, and on the portrait column, an old man with a white beard is not angry and arrogant.

"It is true that there was no such person among the members of the mission...... Even if the change in appearance caused by the chaos of time and space is taken into account, there is no character that can correspond. ”

"So...... She was the child of a dog man and woman in despair? Zhao Shenlu guessed, "Because you are sure that the expedition team will not survive, so you pin your hopes on the next generation?" Forget it, let's read the suicide note first, do you have a way to read the information? ”

Although that jade seems to be crystal blew, after all, it has been strong in the turbulence of time and space for a long time, and the inside has long been decayed, and if you don't have enough exquisite reading skills, you can't see the contents inside.

Wang Jiu observed for a while and muttered, "You can try it." ”

The next moment, the white sword slowly moved forward and landed on the jade.

With the supernatural power of the sword world, transfer the jade to the inside of the sword world, and then use the internal laws of the sword world to suppress the decay of the jade, so that you can read the suicide note left by this woman smoothly.

However, the moment he touched the jade, Wang Jiu found that the jade was of excellent quality, and there was no sign of decay at all, as if the turbulence of time and space passed by.

Of course, the contents of the suicide note were also read smoothly.

"If anyone reads this letter, it means that our last efforts have not been in vain, for the analysis of this magical sea, our preliminary results are successful, we have obtained the technology to resist the turbulence of time and space, otherwise this jade should not last until you come."

In the first paragraph, Wang Jiu saw the rationality and calmness of the author of the suicide note, even though there was despair and chaos around her, she still did not give up hope, and really got an incredible result. With the immortal technology of the Xiangzhou Continent 300 years ago, this jade can actually survive to this day, and human beings are indeed a race that is good at making the impossible possible.

However, as he continued to look at it, Wang Jiu became more and more surprised.

"Then next, if next to this suicide note, you see an old man, then it means that our achievements end there, and you don't need to read the content behind the suicide note."

"If you see a woman, then our most incredible guess has come true, that we can not only resist time and space, but even use time and space skillfully to fulfill my life's dream. Well, if you see this, you are indeed looking at women, right? ”

"Maybe you will be curious about my identity, in the list of the expedition, you can't find my name, or even find people related to me, if you don't guess my identity here, it means that my experiment has even exceeded my expectations, and I have really become what I want most in my life."

"Yes, you should have finally guessed that I am the head of the expedition, the Holy Sect Master."