Chapter 5 Prerequisites for Cooperation
"What? cooperation!" Ping Jiao was the first to shout, "This is impossible, how can we in Shushan cooperate with mortals, mortals are only worthy of being our subordinates, and it is absolutely impossible to be equal!" Although the rest of the Shushan people in the hall did not have such a strong reaction, judging from their expressions, most of them also agreed with Ping Jiao's words.
Hou Yi is not surprised by Ping Jiao's reaction, Shushan, as the originator of China's cultivation world, has appeared in front of the world since ancient times as the only one in the world. In fact, it is no wonder that in the world thousands of years ago, the people's wisdom was not opened, productivity and technology were extremely low, if you only rely on your own strength, mortals are really not worth mentioning, and the magic power of Shushan is tantamount to immortals.
Even cultivators who have lived countless years cannot resist the desire to rule brought about by great power in the face of the worship of the world. Therefore, in the history of China 4,000 years ago, the Xiuzhen Realm, represented by Shushan, dominated everything. During that long period known as the "Age of Mythology", many cultivators were controlled by various desires, accepted the worship of various tribes, and set off constant wars between tribes as gods. Until 4,000 years ago, Shushan was completely sealed by the Perpetual Motion Array, cutting off all contact with the world, and the person who held the key to open the Perpetual Motion Array was Ping Yi at that time - Hou Yi, the chairman of the Xinshu Group who now lives as a mortal.
"Ping Jiao, don't be rude!" Cheng Shu shouted, Ping Jiao immediately shut up, but his face was still full of resentment.
"Pingyi, you have to give us a reason to cooperate with mortals. Cheng Shu looked at the people in Shushan who were full of disdain around him, and said helplessly, he was a calm and peaceful person, and he did not have the superiority of others. With his temperament, there was absolutely no possibility of becoming the head of the house, but since Shushan was completely sealed, everyone could not meddle in the affairs of mortals, so they had to restrain their minds and concentrate on cultivation.
"Uncle Shi, the situation that General Gu just said is the best reason. In three months, the black hole will begin to devour the entire earth, and now it is only possible to change all this if the cultivation realm and all the countries on the earth join forces......"
"Joke, with the insignificant strength of mortals, why should they unite with us, and how can they help?" Cheng Ji asked with a tilt of his head, disdainful.
"Uncle Cheng, four thousand years have passed, and the power of the current mortals is on par with yours, and even in many places, you can't match it, they have enough strength to cooperate with you, at least, they have discovered the black hole, but you don't. Hou Yi suppressed the unhappiness in his heart and said in a gentle tone as much as possible, but he kept calling the people of Shushan "you" in his words, which obviously put himself on the side of mortals, which also made Gu Lin on the side feel relieved.
"It's comparable, it's a joke, we have gone through tens of thousands of years of cultivation to have the current realm, how can mortals have it?" Another disciple of the twelfth generation named Cheng Tu stood up and said loudly, and everyone echoed it, only Cheng Shu remained silent, but his eyes were also full of doubt.
"Uncle Chengtu, I have already said just now, what we can only learn through hard cultivation, people now can have ......it in their lifetime" Hou Yi was also angered by this group of old stubbornness, stood up, turned his head and said: "Gu Lin, you have to find a way to make my senior uncles and brothers believe it." After speaking, he stopped kneeling and stood proudly in the middle of the main hall.
Gu Lin understood, took out the satellite phone from his military uniform, and commanded his subordinates outside. Everyone was surprised to see Gu Lin speaking at a strange thing the size of a palm, and Hou Yi easily said to everyone: "The thing General Gu uses now is called a telephone, and he can talk to people from any corner of the world, which is much more clever than our thousands of miles of voice, and now almost everyone on the earth has a thing like this." These words immediately shocked everyone.
Gu Lin signaled to Hou Yi that he was ready, Hou Yi nodded, and continued: "General Gu has arranged a good show for us, and I also invite the senior brothers to watch it. ”
Gu Lin took out another smaller black box, adjusted it carefully, and pressed a button, a screen of light immediately shot out from the front of the box, and the originally slightly gloomy hall suddenly lit up, and the screen presented a hundred-meter-high hill, with a clear image, making people feel immersive.
"This thing is called holographic TV, which can show the scene anywhere on the earth in front of you, and now everyone sees it near the Northwest Tianshan Mountain......" Hou Yi paused, looked at the already stunned cultivators with satisfaction, and said to Cheng Ji: "Uncle Cheng Yu, I don't know if this holographic TV is superior or inferior compared to your old man's heavenly eyes?" Cheng Yu came back to his senses and said busily: "It's just average, it's just average!"
Seeing him like this, Hou Yi didn't say anything, and said to another gray-clothed disciple of the thirteenth generation: "Senior Brother Pingxu, your magic weapon is close at hand?"
Ping Xu was not as hard-mouthed as Cheng Yu, and said honestly: "This thing is much better, and I can only see a radius of five hundred miles at my fingertips, and it can't be like this." ”
Hou Yi said respectfully to Cheng Shu: "Master Uncle, General Gu Lin arranged a drill, just to show the strength of some mortals, and please don't be surprised." Cheng Shu nodded and said, "It's okay, I also want to see how this world has changed in the past four thousand years." ”
Seeing that Cheng Shu nodded, Hou Yi signaled Gu Lin to start, and Gu Lin commanded into the phone: "Go!"
After a few seconds, countless black dots appeared on the holographic screen, quickly flying towards the hill, and in the blink of an eye, a violent explosion covered the entire mountain, and suddenly the earth flew away, although no sound could be heard, but everyone could still feel the power of the explosion.
When the smoke cleared, the hill vanished, leaving only a huge crater to show what had just happened here. Seeing this scene, everyone in Shushan was a little uneasy in their hearts, it was not difficult to do this, what made them uneasy was that mortals had mastered this power, and they didn't even see a human figure.
Hou Yi then said a sentence that made the uneasiness in everyone's hearts expand infinitely: "The power I see now is not very strong, the weapons in the hands of mortals can even kill millions of people with the touch of a finger, and make a city disappear in an instant." ”
Ping Jiao shouted angrily: "Ping Yi, are you threatening Shushan? Don't forget that you are also a disciple of Shushan!"
"Master, I don't mean to threaten, I just want to tell you that the mortals of today are no longer the people who only kowtowed to us four thousand years ago and begged for our blessings, they have enough strength to talk to us on an equal footing and are qualified to cooperate with us. Hou Yi ignored Pingjiao, a reckless man, and said to Cheng Shu. He used the term "we" again, so as not to further divide the already restless crowd.
There was silence in the hall, no one spoke for a long time, and the atmosphere became very depressing.
Hou Yi was full of emotion in his heart, when he took the key to open the Perpetual Movement Great Array down Shu Mountain, he just didn't want to see cultivators interfering with the world of ordinary people. However, Hou Yi also knew that this method could only treat the symptoms rather than the root cause, and as long as the huge power gap between cultivators and ordinary people still existed, there could be no true equality. If it weren't for the last resort this time, he would not be willing to return to Shushan, the permanent movement array would disappear, and the cultivators would once again face each other directly with ordinary people, if there was no balance of power between each other and the harmony of intermediate forces, the result would definitely be unimaginable. Fortunately, after more than 4,000 years of development, the scientific and technological power mastered by ordinary people is now on a par with the supernatural power of cultivators, and this intermediary is naturally none other than Hou Yi, a native of Shushan and chairman of the Xinshu Group.
For Shushan, Hou Yi is very affectionate, this is his master after all, although he took away the key, so that Shushan has been isolated from the world for thousands of years, and even under the seal of the Perpetual Movement Great Array, it is no longer possible for anyone to fly to the immortal realm, but Hou Yi still has a clear conscience, he feels that this is good for Shushan and for mortals. This point, perhaps the current head Cheng Shu can also understand that it was Cheng Shu who was on duty who let Hou Yi go.
Cheng Shu is not opposed to cooperating with mortals, but he must try his best to strive for greater benefits for Shushan in cooperation, otherwise he will not be able to explain to other fellow disciples.
"Pingyi, this matter is very important, I and you need to think carefully, it's getting late now, you and General Gu will stay in Shushan now, and I will give you an answer early tomorrow morning." Cheng Shu stood up and continued: "Ping Sheng, you take Ping Yi and General Gu to rest." Pingsheng hurriedly got up and agreed.