Teaching more than 5,000 illiterate people, and ensuring that they would be able to memorize the obscure primary cultivation methods and the principles of the Five Elements Technique within a month of study, was not much easier than the fact that a Qi Condensing Monk would take on a big demon and win the battle. But fortunately, in the eyes of Yu Shun and Jiang Shang, who are the strategic minds of the Gonggong clan, at least the former can improve the success rate through various means, while the latter is a match-up with unfettered strength.

However, according to Yu Shun, getting these captives to learn is not an end, but a means.

"Our goal is for these people to be able to come to our side in a month's time. Jiang Shang, who conveyed the phased goals of this operation on behalf of Yu Shun, said such words.

This goal is obviously more difficult than the task of teaching, because it is much more difficult to control the mind than the behavior. And the one who has the deepest understanding of this point belongs to Yu Shun's fourth disciple Cang Ying.

That is, Xiao Zhengtai.

As a cultivator genius who grew up in the Gonggong clan, Xiao Zhengtai has been impressed by the high worship of Yu Shun in the entire clan since he was a child, his extreme reverence for monks, and his strong desire to become a monk. This Gonggong Fourth Gentleman, who has been on a smooth path to cultivation since he was born and has not suffered any setbacks, was limited by his too pale life experience, and once naively thought that as long as he showed the strength of the monks to the captives, he could exchange the sincere service of these warriors of all races living in dire straits.

So, in the first class, when he rashly made an invitation to "join us to work together", the response he received was much more than Xiao Zhengtai expected.

"Phew!"

"Rebels!"

"Zhurong's demon clan adults will find you and tear you apart!"

"Only cowards who dare to play some tricks of stealing chickens and dogs!"

The more than 3,000 captives in the field reacted very little to the solicitation, but instead sounded sporadic scolding, which made the arrogant little Shota feel very surprised and frustrated. His brain, which drew inferences about the five elements of magic and touched the analogy, couldn't understand why when the demon clan regarded humans as low-level creatures or even food, there would still be people who would speak for them, even if it was against their own race.

As the group pet of Yu Shun's disciples, he showed enough concern for the confusion in the hearts of the fourth junior brother (brother), even if he had some disagreements with Xiao Zhengtai on the Xiaopai and Xiong Ling incidents, but the work of persuasion finally fell on Jiang Shang, who was recognized as the most suitable candidate.

"The power of habit is huge, just like your daily morning and evening classes, it's not necessary for life, it's not innate, but once you stop one day, you feel uncomfortable, as if the day is not complete, and you always feel like something is missing. ”

The two brothers sat side by side on a thick branch, swinging their feet, looking at the hook-like crescent moon on the peaks of the 100,000 mountains, feeling the cool evening breeze in the mountains, and chatting unhurriedly.

"But what does this have to do with habits?"

"Of course it does. ”

Gently patting Xiao Zhengtai's shoulder, Jiang Shang looked at the quiet camp that had been extinguished and explained gently.

"With the protection of the demon race, human beings can survive. This has been the greatest habit of the entire human population in the last 6,000 years. And, regardless of the era, there will always be different voices within each population. Just as where there is light, there must be shadows, some people hate the demon clan to the core, and some people must be silent about them, and even when the fear of power rises to a certain level, there is an emotion similar to worship. In fact, just as we artificially divide the demon clan into hawks and doves, there are also pro-demon factions, anti-demon factions and neutral factions within our human race. ”

Feeling that his worldview has been impacted, Xiao Zhengtai shows a considerable degree of confusion, but still retains his basic thinking.

"This so-called pro-demon faction and neutral faction, why have I never seen it in the clan. ”

"Because the master said that only time is the only criterion for testing the truth of everything. After throwing out a similar point of view to an elder of the Tianshui tribe, Jiang Shang smiled and rubbed Xiao Zhengtai's hair, "If you were born a few decades earlier, or talk more about the past with the old people in the clan, you will find that not only did the clan have a pro-demon faction, but also in the most rampant years of the Grimace Crab Demon, some people even took the initiative to arrange to hand over the baby blood sacrifice in the clan in order to please the demon clan." ”

He looked at Xiao Zhengtai with a surprised look on his face and laughed.

"Don't be so surprised. Not all human beings have the foresight to transcend the times and the courage to live to die. Under the domination of the survival instinct, sacrificing a small number of individuals to ensure the continuation of the entire population is the most in the best interests of the human race as a whole in that era. ”

"This kind of behavior is a practice that should be hanged in any era. ”

A crisp female voice came, and the trunk of the tree next to the two of them suddenly opened, and out came a delicate woman, her white and tender feet stepped on the trunk, and she walked to the end of the branch lightly and skillfully, and sat down on the small branch, as if there was no weight.

"Senior Sister...... Your behavior of using Mu Dun to eavesdrop is really a little creepy......"

"I just happened to be passing by. Moreover...... Do I need to do something as low-level as eavesdropping?"

The woman unhappily pulled over a branch above and pulled the leaves on the branch to her eyes, then changed her unhappy face and asked gently, "Hello, can you tell me what this drug-building guy just said?"

In front of Jiang Shang, who was full of black lines, Gong Yi put the leaf to his ear.

"Third Senior Brother. ”

"Huh?"

"Why do you always have to talk about Senior Sister, and then you are always choked back badly?"

"That's the power of habit! You're a very vivid example of what I've just said. ”

“......”

"Thank you. Gong Yi, who got the answer over there, let go of the branch in his hand, and uncharacteristically did not sneer at Jiang Shang, but crossed his legs and looked at the moon in the sky.

"Speaking of which, the third child has not personally experienced that time. ”

"That paragraph...... Fear dominated by the Grimace Crab Demon ......"

The two people on the side looked at the face of the delicate woman sinking into memory, and they were a little silent for a while.

After a while, Xiao Zhengtai couldn't hold back the curiosity in his heart and asked, "Senior sister, what was it like at that time?"

"At that time, ah......"

"At that time, there were almost daily deaths in the tribe. ”

A familiar voice fell, accompanied by a streamer falling from the sky. Xiao Zhengtai and Jiang Shang turned around at the same time and saluted, while Gong Yi raised his eyes and said nothing.

"I patrolled at night, and I just saw that you were all there," the smiling senior brother leaned against the trunk of the tree, "At that time, the senior sister was still young, so let me tell you." ”