Chapter 525 Emperor Weapon and Heavenly Immortal (8200 words, one update yesterday, requesting monthly tickets!)

New Calendar Year One, October 11th, noon.

Northern Ridge, the sky was bright.

October in the south might still be considered the end of summer, but in the north, it was already autumn and winter, and it should have been getting cold.

But since yesterday, not even a hint of dark clouds could be seen in this Northern Ridge region of Qinglin Province. Under the bright sunlight, the entire city, inside and out, was hot and warm, as if summer had returned.

If one were to look down upon the world from the sky, one could see that with a certain location in Northern Ridge as the center, there were no clouds within a radius of several hundred *li*. An invisible aura had formed a massive shield with a radius of hundreds of *li*.

However, what was overflowing within this shield was not scorching heat, but an extremely gentle vitality, bursting forth.

Anyone with even a slight evil thought in their heart would feel extremely uncomfortable being illuminated by this vitality... Those who usually took petty advantages in their interactions with neighbors, causing harm to others, would feel their breathing become unusually hot.

And if, in the past, one had actively bullied others, using force to oppress and act fiercely, they would feel fire burning in their lungs and an invisible restlessness spreading, as uncomfortable as running dozens of kilometers on a sweltering day.

Although there were not many truly wicked people in the entire Northern Ridge City, if there were, and they were willing to sincerely reform, it was not as if there was no chance for redemption... Relying on this phenomenon, many families used it to punish their unruly children, making them admit the evil thoughts in their hearts and then vow to reform.

"It's Zhuzhou!"

Regarding this unusual, but not exactly a 'disaster', phenomenon, a New Kingdom official working in the City Lord's Mansion mysteriously and excitedly explained to acquaintances: "The divine bird Zhuzhou can discern the good and evil in people's hearts and suppress calamities and subdue evil—its flames burn brightly, fueled by karma!"

"Those people feel uncomfortable precisely because they have done things that even they themselves feel guilty about, so there is no need to sympathize with them!"

"Really?!"

Hearing this, everyone exclaimed: "Is that really the case?!"

"How strange, why have I never heard of the great name of Zhuzhou before..."

"I heard it's a divine bird from Kunlun Mountain in the Western Continent. It's normal for people in our Central Continent not to know about it."

In short, overnight, the name of the divine bird Zhuzhou, which came from Kunlun in the Western Mountains, began to spread throughout the world.

And the atmosphere in the entire Northern Ridge City was also renewed.

—Point out mistakes, correct mistakes.

This was precisely a kind of innovation.

However, it was not what most people imagined.

This miraculous phenomenon did not originate from the Zhuzhou itself.

But rather, it originated from a divine blade.

A divine blade that was being carried by someone into the Northern Ridge Mountains.

Qinglin Province, Linmo Prefecture, Northern Ridge City.

Outside the city, the Greater Northern Ridge Mountains.

Northern Ridge City was built against the mountains, beside the river. The turbid Baiyan River flowed out from the depths of the mountains, like a straight passage, connecting Northern Ridge City with the many mines in the mountains.

Countless ships traveled back and forth along the river, transporting vast amounts of raw materials.

At this time, the power of the divine weapon permeated the heavens and the earth, causing the area around Northern Ridge, which should have been desolate and cold, with wind and frost, to become like the height of summer again, with large patches of green color radiating throughout the vast mountains.

This phenomenon alone was enough to prove that the Blade of Annihilation was a genuine divine weapon.

"Such a spiritual divine blade, I have truly never seen before!"

Su Zhou and Wang Haitian walked along the Baiyan River towards the Greater Northern Ridge Mountains at a pace that seemed neither fast nor slow, but how could the actions of a Heaven-tier expert and a Land Immortal be calculated according to common sense?

In just a few breaths, the shadow of the city behind them disappeared, and the two had penetrated several *li* into the mountains.

At this time, the pitch-black Blade of Annihilation was rarely obediently worn at Su Zhou's waist, only occasionally making a 'clang' sound, as if wanting to communicate with its master. Su Zhou would then gently stroke the blade, comforting it and letting it know that it could be strengthened, calming down the somewhat excited divine blade.

Seeing this scene, Wang Haitian couldn't help but praise softly.

He was not deliberately flattering, but speaking from the heart: "If it were elixirs, secret medicines, or divine cultivation manuals, our Northern Ridge City would indeed not be qualified, but if it were forging weapons and creating machinery, we can boast that we are first-rate in this world."

"Within the Northern Ridge jurisdiction, there are three Heaven-tier grand artisans stationed permanently. Since following His Majesty the Holy Emperor, they have forged no less than a dozen True Person divine weapons. If it weren't for the lack of opportunity, with the skill of the three grand artisans, they might even be able to forge 'Dao weapons' possessing the power of gods and demons!"

"But even so, at least in my experience over the years, I have never seen any True Person divine weapon that can be as spiritual as this divine blade of Senior Zhuzhou!"

—That's natural. I've used it to save the world several times.

Su Zhou's heart was very calm regarding Wang Haitian's exclamation.

It should be known that in the Divine Wood World and the Reincarnation World, the Blade of Annihilation was praised as a symbol of saving the world for hundreds of years. Its reputation was even greater than his own.

This could be seen from the fact that museums in the Divine Wood World would distribute inflatable toy versions of the Blade of Annihilation to children, and it had basically become one of the symbols of civilization.

Yesterday, Su Zhou learned the general basic information of the current Heavenly Yuan mortal world from Wang Haitian's introduction.

Among them was a summary of the nearly million-year history of the God and Demon Era in this Heavenly Yuan mortal world.

—Since the primordial Phoenix created the world, the world has been divided into seven seas and five continents, corresponding to the seven virtues of the primordial Phoenix.

Each continent spans hundreds of thousands of *li*, with tens of thousands of races multiplying, and gods and demons emerge from the masses, creating the earliest civilization and creating written calendars, which is the beginning of the God and Demon Era.

However, the God and Demon calendar is too long, and too much history was lost during the Three Thousand Years of Warring States, so no one, except for the immortal gods and demons, can remember everything.

Therefore, even the most detailed classics of the New Kingdom only know roughly that 450,000 years ago, the 'Southern Continent' and 'Eastern Continent' of the five continents successively encountered 'great misfortunes', causing the entire continent to sink.

The terrain of the Central Continent changed greatly as a result, and the original Northwest continents, which were still suitable for survival, one had mountains rising up, turning into endless mountains known as millions of *li* of mountains, and the other became an extremely cold and frosty land.

The gods and demons were also severely damaged as a result, and since then, they have rarely personally set foot in the mortal world.

Only the Central Continent, although its terrain changed drastically, largely maintained its original appearance, with tens of thousands of races multiplying and countries conquering each other endlessly.

Three thousand years ago, two stars fell to earth, shaking the heavens and the earth. Countless demons and evil spirits appeared, triggering the Three Thousand Years of Warring States Era in the Central Continent, until today, when the New Kingdom first unified the world, ending the chaos.

Therefore, Su Zhou was very clear.

Although this Heavenly Yuan mortal world, just this Central Continent alone, had a surface area that was a dozen or even more times larger than that of the Earth, with a large population of hundreds of billions, or even higher than that number.

However, this world had never been unified in the nearly million years of the God and Demon Era, so naturally, no weapon possessed the conditions of the Blade of Annihilation, which could gather the hearts of the world's people, admired and worshiped, and blessed with countless noble vows.

Even so, Wang Haitian's words still made Su Zhou quite concerned.

"Dao weapon!"

Thinking of this, the youth nodded slightly, his eyes long and profound.

Although almost no one in this Heavenly Yuan mortal world could surpass the realm of True Person and become a new god or demon due to special reasons, the accumulation of nearly a million years of long history still allowed a few heroes and heroines to break this shackle.

They were either able to fight against gods and demons, defeating the incarnations of gods and demons; or they were granted celestial status and became new gods and demons; or they held 'Dao weapons' powerful enough to rival the power of gods and demons, invincible for a lifetime, dominating for thousands of years.

Ordinary iron, refined martial, mysterious weapon, divine weapon.

Human-rank, Earth-rank, Heaven-rank, and Land Immortal.

Further up, it was the weapon of gods and demons, a Dao-containing weapon!

Divine weapons were certainly rare, but they were not too uncommon. At least, due to the nature of weapons, their number was destined to be greater than that of the living Land Immortals.

Many large families and forces had several divine weapons to suppress their foundations.

But now, the only 'Dao weapons' that could be confirmed to exist and possessed the power of gods and demons were the former Zhengyang Kingdom's weapon of state, the Azure Sky Zhengyang Ruler, and the Heavenly Mandate Five Virtues Seal held by the New Kingdom's Holy Emperor, which was of unknown authenticity.

The Heavenly Mandate Five Virtues Seal could not be determined at present, so let's not talk about it for the time being, but the Azure Sky Zhengyang Ruler was extremely famous. It was left behind tens of thousands of years ago by an ancient hero who was guided by an immortal god and ascended to the divine position in the immortal heavens. It contained boundless Azure Sky divine power and vast Zhengyang power.

There were rumors that this ancient hero was the current Ziwei Star Lord—but this was only a legend.

After Zhengyang Kingdom discovered this Dao weapon in an unknown place, they established their country with it. If it weren't for the appearance of the New Kingdom's Five Virtues Sect, they would have unified the world.

In the past Five Virtues Zhengyang War, the Zhengyang leader Nan Zhengkai was able to escape from the Holy Emperor's hands precisely because he held this Azure Sky Zhengyang Ruler.

Even so, his primordial spirit was greatly damaged, and no news had been heard of him in recent years.

Although, according to legend, there were also supreme divine weapons belonging to the Heavenly Emperor Demon Lord, supreme Dao weapons known as 'Emperor Weapons'.

But for Wang Haitian and the beings of the Heavenly Yuan Realm, this level seemed quite illusory and unreal.

But Su Zhou was different.

When he was on Earth, he might have indeed seen 'Emperor Weapons' belonging to this rank.

"Whether it's the Sunset Bow, the Chixiao Sword, or the Goushan Whip that I've never seen, they are all at least the most powerful type of Dao weapon."

"And the Sunset Bow should be an 'Emperor Weapon'!"

This was not a random guess.

At least until now, Su Zhou had never seen a divine weapon like the Sunset Bow that needed to be sealed using a secret realm.

As a celestial weapon with the record of 'Creator Heavenly Venerate' and 'Golden Crow Ancestor', no one would believe it if it was said that it was not an Emperor Weapon.

And the Chixiao Sword's single sword qi, which had not shown its full power, could easily kill the Earth Immortal Nine-Tailed Heavenly Demon in its prime, making its lower limit extremely high. It was just that he didn't know what its upper limit was.

As for the Goushan Whip... Su Zhou was not very clear. It seemed to be some kind of civil artifact, and it should not be classified using the common method of classifying divine weapons.

"In short, whether it's the Sunset Bow or the Chixiao Sword, such divine power, placed among Dao weapons, can definitely be called powerful."

Thinking this, Su Zhou couldn't help but nod slightly, feeling emotional: "I wonder when my Blade of Annihilation will reach this level."

"I have actually been in charge of this Northern Ridge City for a long time. In the past, I was a mine slave in the Northern Ridge mines of Zhengyang Kingdom. If it weren't for the Holy Emperor's rescue, my future would have been bleak."

Sensing that Su Zhou's interest had been piqued, Wang Haitian was also happy. He spoke of his origins frankly and openly, without the slightest bit of care.

The City Lord pointed to the mountains in front of him and said to Su Zhou with great pride: "Since I took charge of the Northern Ridge region, seventeen divine weapons, large and small, have been forged here. Among them, eleven have come from the hands of the three grand artisans."

"Look, they're here."

Just as the two were talking, they had reached the depths of the Northern Ridge mountain area.

Looking from afar, Su Zhou could see a rich spiritual light mixed with gold, earth, and fire rising into the sky from the mountains, supporting the heavens. Its overflowing energy condensed into misty spiritual mist, and there was a strong smell of earth fire and sulfur in the air.

At this moment, the temperature of the surrounding mountains had become scorching hot, making the phenomenon of the Blade of Annihilation almost imperceptible.

The Baishan Mountains did indeed have many volcanoes. Even the Northern Ridge branch had more frequent earth fire pulses than other places. This was obviously a place where the underground earth fire was accidentally discovered during the excavation of the mines, and a smelting and casting base was built on this basis.

And now, three Heaven-tier experts wearing artisan's clothing were coming with a dozen disciples.

"Greetings, Zhuzhou True Person!"

The three grand artisans were two men and one woman. One of the men was old and the other was strong, while the woman was an old woman.

But similarly, it was their bodies—Northern Ridge City Lord Wang Haitian had a strong and muscular body due to his childhood as a mine slave and his talent. Even when wearing official robes, he looked as strong as a bear. But these three grand artisans were even better than City Lord Wang in terms of body size. Their bones and muscles were almost like bronze and iron castings, possessing terrifying power. Their arms were muscular and bulging, like small mountains.

The method of forging had nothing to do with strength. In the past, a group of acquired artisans in the Divine Wood World could also forge the Blade of Annihilation, which could be called powerful even among innate weapons.

Su Zhou could also feel an extremely strong imprint of war from these three grand artisans, which was an aura that only those who had personally forged countless excellent weapons, and even divine weapons and divine martial arts, could have.

Indeed extraordinary.

Therefore, he unsheathed the blade and handed it over.

Su Zhou gave the weapon, but the three grand artisans, who had already received Wang Haitian's notice and were fully prepared, did not take it easily. They were extremely cautious and asked the disciples who followed them to bring out a platform of Earth Flame Profound Iron that was five *chi* wide and eight *chi* long, still emitting a majestic heat wave, and then carefully placed the Blade of Annihilation on it. After confirming that there was no power overflowing, they stepped forward to observe carefully.

"Clang!" When it was handed over, the Blade of Annihilation made a rather pitiful sound, like an abandoned puppy.

Su Zhou stroked the spine of the blade and comforted it with a smile: "Good, be careful to restrain your strength and don't hurt anyone."

"Such a rich spirituality!"

Seeing the interaction between the Blade of Annihilation and Su Zhou, Artisan Chu's eyes lit up, and then he reached out his hand remotely, using his spiritual sense to explore.

His unique Heaven-Human Weapon Forging Sect's 'Divine Weapon Nine Forges' power could deconstruct the structure of all weapons in the world and distinguish the mysteries of spiritual light. The old man could naturally sense that the internal material of the Blade of Annihilation was already close to absolute homogeneity, and it was close to being unable to be upgraded without improving the material grade.

And the sword spirit was as active as a real person, its soul was chaotic, although its intelligence was not fully developed, it was as vast as the sea.

"This blade... is actually at the peak of True Person, and it is only one step away from Dao weapon!"

Although Artisan Wu was a woman, her aura was not inferior to the other two grand artisans. She used the 'Geng Metal Qi Discernment Technique' to explore, and her expression changed, and then she looked in surprise at Su Zhou, who was smiling aside: "A divine weapon that obeys its master, so to speak, True Person Zhuzhou, you..."

"Indeed."

The youngest of the grand artisans, the middle-aged man Artisan Mu, was a little taciturn, but his eyes had divine light turning—the Five Virtues Sect's Ingenious Gold Sect's unique 'Taibai Weapon Observation Eyes' allowed him to see the shortcomings of 99% of the divine weapons in the world.

But this time, he gained nothing, and couldn't help but marvel: "The divine weapon is almost perfect, just because the material was not good when it was first forged, so the strength is not very considerable... But even so, the divine intent is extremely complete, vast and magnificent, vaguely with a vow to protect the world's creatures and suppress all demons and evil spirits!"

"This, this is opportunity!"

After speaking, he also turned to look at Su Zhou, Artisan Mu's expression was a little excited: "True Person Zhuzhou, is this your personal divine weapon that you have always held since the beginning of your cultivation?"

"Naturally."

Thinking carefully, Su Zhou realized that the Blade of Annihilation was indeed a weapon that had accompanied him since the Awakening stage—actually, the World Tree Spear and its predecessor, the Wood Centipede Spear, were also, but dealing with those huge monsters, slashing with a sharp edge was always more effective than thrusting with a spear.

So he nodded in agreement, and this instead caused the three grand artisans to show solemn expressions and bow to Su Zhou with extreme sincerity and respect.

"The spirit of this blade is too full of vitality, not suitable as a spirit for a weapon of conquest and slaughter."

The leading Artisan Chu said so, but he smiled: "But this, on the contrary, proves that you, as the master of the blade, have a clear mind. Although you wield a divine weapon, you have not developed a murderous heart because you have a sharp blade in your heart."

"Yes." Artisan Wu also nodded in agreement: "This old woman can see that for you, the blade is a means, it is for the sake of peace in the world, and not just for the sake of destroying strong enemies."

Artisan Mu made the final comment: "It's simply, exactly the same as His Majesty the Holy Emperor."

"Oh?"

Hearing this, Su Zhou couldn't help but raise his eyebrows slightly. He didn't mind being compared with others, especially since he also knew that for these New Kingdom subjects, 'the same as His Majesty the Holy Emperor' was considered the number one praise in this world.

"In short, this place is still too simple. True Person, we will go back to the Northern Ridge Weapon Forging Pool for detailed research to see how to perfectly improve the quality of your divine weapon."

The three grand artisans were all resolute and vigorous people. After showing even greater respect to Su Zhou than before, they took the disciples and set off together, heading towards the 'Northern Ridge Weapon Forging Pool', which was not far away, deep underground, and released an aura of earth fire and sulfur.

"...Why again?"

Sensing that the other party's attitude had changed from 'gratitude' to 'respect'.

Su Zhou, who didn't know why his prestige had suddenly increased, was actually quite puzzled.

He turned to look at Wang Haitian.

"Don't be surprised, Senior Zhuzhou. Senior Chu Wu and Senior Wu have both lived for nearly three hundred years. They have experienced the Warring States Period and know the value of peace. And Artisan Mu Wu, like me, is someone who has vowed to follow the Holy Emperor."

Wang Haitian was not surprised at all. He first bowed slightly to Su Zhou and said with a sigh: "Gods and demons regard the creatures of this world as grass. The royal families of the various countries and the strongmen of all walks of life are all dragons and snakes, constantly fighting each other, only for the desires in their hearts. No one pays attention to the most struggling people."

"Like the Zhengyang Kingdom, which was extremely harsh in its exploitation of the people, was actually considered good. Before, some royal families would wantonly abuse and vent their violence for pleasure or for personal gain, or even use people as sacrifices to worship gods and demons alive."

"Yes, in the three thousand years of the Warring States Period, heroes rose together. For cultivators, it was a good opportunity to compete for the position of overlord, but for the people, it was nothing but one disaster after another..."

Speaking of this, Wang Haitian's gaze was deep. He looked solemnly at the mines in the mountains not far away. After a moment of silence, he continued: "In a million years in Central Continent, only His Majesty has emerged, someone who cares about the people and is willing to fight for the sake of the people... Therefore, we will follow him until our true spirits are destroyed and reincarnation is no longer possible."

"But isn't this the most basic thing?"

Hearing this, Su Zhou did not feel that the confusion was resolved, but was even more confused: "I mean, in a million years, has there not been even one person who fought for the 'weak'?"

"...Perhaps there were, but now they have all been destroyed, both in body and reputation."

Answering softly, Wang Haitian turned to look at Su Zhou, but smiled: "This is the Heavenly Yuan Realm."

"It is also why we respect you so much, Senior Zhuzhou."

—Precisely because it is rare, that is why it is respected.

For a time, Su Zhou was speechless.

He raised his head and looked up at the sky. Above the high dome, the stars were arranged, vast and boundless.

Afterwards, he looked down at the earth, the earth veins were all over, layered upon layer, endless.

"Yala, is this world really a perfect world?"

Closing his eyes, the youth asked the crimson serpent spirit in the reincarnation space with some confusion. Su Zhou's tone had a hint of incomprehensible confusion: "Is this kind of disgusting world really the 'perfect original world'?"

"The feeling that Bai Yingxue gave me was clearly not like this."

"Perfection is the result, not the process... Or rather, in order to achieve the result, some processes can be ignored."

Coiled on the Tree of Wisdom, Yala answered softly: "Don't forget the warnings that the Silent Lord gave you, Su Zhou—how can you know that in the end, this world will not get a happy result?"

"But I don't think this is right."

Opening his eyes, Su Zhou stepped forward. He and Wang Haitian followed the three grand artisans towards the weapon forging pool not far away.

The youth murmured to himself: "It's always like this."

"Then become stronger."

The serpent spirit chuckled and said: "If you think something is wrong, then go and make the wrong guys correct it."

"That's right."

Su Zhou's eyes flickered, and he said in a deep voice: "If I break through to become an Immortal Heavenly Immortal, then many problems in this world can be solved easily."

Since breaking through to Earth Immortal in Qingqiu Star, and then replacing his natal divine power in the Reincarnation World, sublimating his Heavenly Soul Karma to the power of eternal innovation, Su Zhou had been making great strides on the path to becoming a Heavenly Immortal.

Until now, after experiencing the trials of the Preaching Tower and accepting the inheritance of the Zhulong Dharma Body, he had made up for his shortcomings of 'insufficient foundation' and 'too fast advancement speed', and stood at the peak of the Earth Immortal realm.

Only one step away from 'immortality'.

Immortality.

Heavenly Immortal.

The highest realm.

Even Heavenly Venerates and Great Heavenly Venerates were essentially members of the Heavenly Immortal realm, it was just that the gap between Heavenly Immortals was too large, so it was necessary to divide the levels.

Its standard was that even if the heavens and earth collapsed and the world was destroyed, it could still exist independently of the six paths, observe reincarnation, and exist forever.

If he used Yala's Dragon-Serpent Path to advance to Heavenly Immortal, it would actually be easy for Su Zhou—as long as he completed the complete body of the Zhuzhou universe battle form 3.0 version, then that true body, which had been strengthened to the extreme, would naturally have the ability to travel through the ice-condensed void, and it would be so powerful that it could resist the aftershocks of the world's destruction.

Naturally, suppressing star fields and destroying worlds would also be easy.

But, would there be any innovation if it were just like that?

Obviously not.

It would just be retracing the path of others.

Therefore, this time, Su Zhou transformed into the divine bird form, also wanting to try to be able to walk out of some achievements in this regard.

Then, mix it with the Dragon-Serpent Path.

In this way, he would walk out of his own unique 'Zhuzhou Path'.

While thinking, the group had arrived at the valley where the weapon forging pool was located.

The Northern Ridge Weapon Forging Pool was a large-scale forging center built on the basis of the former Northern Ridge Great Mine of the Zhengyang Kingdom. Its distribution was roughly in the shape of an eight trigrams. The weapon forging pool was located in the center, and one could faintly see the red earth fire light emanating from its depths, while the eight sides were multiple large mines.

As soon as one approached the valley, a scorching temperature of nearly a hundred degrees and extremely thick fire, earth, and metal spiritual energy assaulted them, causing the air above the entire valley to distort.

But in such a high-heat and dead zone with almost no life, there were more than ten thousand miners wearing uniform clothes working hard around various mines, shouting slogans, and full of momentum.

"Most of today's task has been completed, everyone work hard, I'll have the cafeteria add extra dishes for dinner!"

"Don't lose to the people in mine pit number five, we must get the title of excellent mining team this time!"

"Do you feel okay? This is your first time going down to the depths of the earth veins today, you should be a little uncomfortable. If you can't, ask for leave."

"Don't worry team leader, I'm fine, I'm just a little dizzy..."

Standing on a high place on the side of the valley, Su Zhou swept his eyes.

He could see that these miners were strong and full of energy, and did not look like they were being forced to work. Their cultivation, physical, and mental state were all excellent.

Everyone had a high-level human-rank cultivation and a physique that was 'immune to cold and heat', and their foundation was exceptionally solid.

"Working, mining, are all cultivation."

Seeing the surprise and appreciation in Su Zhou's eyes, Wang Haitian explained with great pride: "All miners have signed contracts with the Five Virtues Sect. The New Kingdom will guarantee their personal safety, pay salaries, and their families will also receive compensation after death. Furthermore, they also provide basic cultivation methods for the 'Thick Earth', 'Ingenious Metal', and 'True Fire' systems."

"At the same time, they should also work hard and cultivate diligently for themselves, for their families, and for the peace of this world."

The environment inside the mine pit, although extremely harsh, was a very good place to simulate cultivation because of the high-heat underground mineral veins.

"The ambition is very high, very good. But will it be a little out of touch with reality?"

Su Zhou stared at the miners shouting slogans and happily dedicating their strength voluntarily. Although he asked this question, he could clearly see that none of the tens of thousands of hardworking miners present had any negative emotions. Even if there was some dissatisfaction, it was because they had not surpassed others.

The New Kingdom side paid a lot, but demanded very little. He could see that the basic cultivation methods of the Five Virtues Sect were very solid and could be considered a first-class cultivation method. If it were placed elsewhere, even if one sold themselves as a slave to do hard labor as an apprentice for more than ten years, they might not be taught.

"If the people only knew how to bury their heads in the soil to dig for food, merely seeking to survive humbly, how could they have the heart to rise up?"

Wang Haitian shook his head slightly: "Educating all people and opening their minds is the foundation for consolidating a country. We must let them know that they are a member of this country, a member of this world."

"If they don't know this, how can they serve the country, fight for the people, and how can they follow in the footsteps of the Holy Emperor?"

"Very good."

Hearing this, Su Zhou also smiled: "They are all very good."

He lowered his head again.

The youth could see that inside and outside the mine, there were various kinds of spirit machines made by the Ingenious Metal Sect, including those for lighting, transportation, those responsible for inspecting and stabilizing the firmness of the mine tunnel, and those for detecting the surrounding mineral veins and determining the stability value of the spiritual energy.

This set of equipment was already very complete. Compared with the original mountain excavation, this was an extremely advanced working system.

In this way, even if they went deep into the belly of the mountain, no one would be afraid.

"The fear under the jurisdiction of the Dark Heavenly Demon must also be partly provided by the miners in the deep mine."

Su Zhou carefully watched all of this, and he murmured to himself: "But now, I can't see the timidity in these people's hearts."

As a great master of divine power in terms of vows, the youth could see the flow of thoughts in everyone's hearts, without any mistakes.

"It seems that the development of civilization can indeed greatly curb the source of the demon gods' power."

This was exactly the same as Su Zhou had guessed before. Not only was it a good thing, but it could also add inspiration to the various methods he had in mind to target the heavenly demons and determine their feasibility.

However, doubts also arose as a result.

"But in that case, would the Nine Nether Demon Gods really allow civilization to develop?"

Frowning, the youth had some doubts in his heart: "Fear will weaken with the increase of wisdom, this is common sense—how could they allow a country like the New Kingdom to be born?"

Fear comes from ignorance.

The essence of ignorance is foolishness.

As long as anyone who can think and summarize, the things they fear will become less and less—they may indeed be afraid of some things that they cannot resist, but they will never be 'trembling with fear' and 'respectfully worship' anything they don't know.

On the contrary, when they encounter things they don't know, they will become curious and want to completely analyze this thing.

If the New Kingdom continues to enlighten the people, perhaps some heavenly demons will become stronger as a result, but more heavenly demons will become unimaginably weaker.

Like the Dark Heavenly Demon, it will definitely become extremely weak.

Putting himself in their shoes, Su Zhou felt that even if his true body descended, he would definitely destroy such a country that was excavating the foundation of his existence.

If that didn't work, he would also have to kill that 'Five Virtues Holy Emperor'.

"There must be elements in this that I don't understand."

With such doubts, Su Zhou entered the depths of the weapon forging pool under the leadership of Wang Haitian.

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