It can be said that many people in the demon realm know that the four demon kings of this generation have not ascended to the throne illegitimately. However, apart from Sajax, who is a reckless brute, the other three of them are not easy to deal with. If you are caught talking about such matters, you will pay with your life.
However, if you don't want people to know, then don't do it in the first place. Much history has been passed down through other means, such as books, videos, and even oral traditions. Of course, the Demon Realm authorities have been trying to destroy these things, but the more they suppress them, the more widely they are spread in secret, exceeding the current control of the Demon Realm authorities.
Sajax's forehead veins bulged, and a ball of red light rose from his hand, transforming into a streak of light that struck the defensive area of the shield.
Mark deliberately adjusted the shield's reaction method. Originally, the shield would absorb the opponent's attack, but now the shield's defense method has become diffusion. The destruction magic that Sajax cast was deflected after hitting the shield's defense and scattered in all directions, landing in the city. In an instant, the entire Gremory family's main city shook violently as if it had been hit by an earthquake.
Sherpa looked incredulous and shouted, "Sajjas, are you insane?! The people in this city are your subjects! Don't you care about their lives?!"
Sajjas was speechless. He was not good with words to begin with, and he realized that he had been provoked by the other side and had impulsively launched an attack, which led to the destruction of most parts of the city.
He knew that his Destruction Magic was incredibly powerful, the pinnacle of Evocation Magic. He could only imagine how terrible the casualties would be if such an attack landed in the city.
This was indeed Sherpa and Mark's scheme. The shield chose to absorb the first wave of attacks in order to lull Sajax into a false sense of security. Then, Sherpa used verbal attacks to provoke Sajax, causing him to attack in anger. At this point, Mark would control the shield to use deflection mode, redirecting Sajax's attack to other parts of the city, creating the established fact that Sajax was attacking his own people.
The commoner demons would never know the properties of the shield artifact that originally belonged to the Tarlin family. All they would know is that Sajax disregarded the lives of the common people in order to strike at the suffering and save his allies.
Such a plan would be easily exposed when facing the other three demon lords, but Sajax himself is not good with words and is easily misled, which is why he chose the Gremory family's capital city for this operation.
Normally, of the four Demon Lords' main cities, the Gremory family's is the most dangerous, because Sajax is the most powerful of the four Demon Lords. Without prior preparation, even the entire Alliance of Salvation of the Sufferers wouldn't be enough to defeat Sajax alone. It was precisely for this reason that, before this operation, the Alliance of Salvation of the Sufferers first launched a surprise attack on the Darlin family, cleverly seizing their artifact and destroying the Darlin family, all to ensure that this operation wouldn't go wrong.
The current outcome is quite good. The alliance not only got the manpower they wanted, but also obtained the video of Sajax's disregard for human life, which can be said to be a great gain.
After all, the alliance was furious about being falsely accused before, but with its propaganda channels at a significant disadvantage, it was utterly powerless to defend itself against the smears and accusations. But things are different now. They've turned the tables. The living batteries inside the magic power plant are the best witnesses to the Demon King's cruelty. These victims will expose the brutality of the Demon Realm's officials to all the civilians of the Underworld.
Although the allied rescue team's teleportation was disrupted, they successfully deployed the teleportation array, leaving Sajax to watch helplessly as his enemies departed.
On the balcony of the Gremory family mansion, Levi said, "The damage caused by Sajax is far greater than that caused by the Bloc of Calamity. The Bloc of Calamity only destroyed the magic power plant and rescued those unfortunate souls who were used as living batteries. Sajax's side has suffered at least several thousand casualties. Oh, by the way, those people from the Bloc of Calamity have given their organization a new name: the Alliance for the Salvation of the Suffering. It seems they've found their own path."
Rias found the name unspeakably ironic: the Sufferers Save the Alliance, but who caused the suffering?
Thinking of this, Rias's expression grew even more unpleasant.
Rias said, "Li Weijun, I'm feeling a little unwell, please excuse me."
Li Wei said, "I know you're feeling bad right now, but some things are difficult to change with one's own power, unless that person is strong enough to shut everyone up. Your brother Sajax has that power, but he has his own principles and won't do such a thing."
Rias gave a bitter smile and said, "Thank you for your comfort, but I'm not that fragile."
Rias was torn. The plight of all the common people in the Demon World, and her own family, weighed heavily on her mind, and she didn't know which to choose. However, when she saw Levi, she felt a strange sense of security, a feeling that even if she made the wrong choice, as long as Levi was there, he could pull her back from the abyss of error.
Chapter 1. The Extraordinary Nationwide Project
Over the next few days, Rias was clearly out of sorts, and would often drift off into thought when she was with Levi.
While observing the volcanoes in the Demon Realm, Li Wei gained some inspiration. He then left behind a puppet clone, whose true form was difficult to distinguish, to remain in the Demon Realm, while his true body went to the sun.
High in the sun's orbit, Li Wei slowly revolved around the sun due to gravity. For him, who had achieved success in cultivation, the temperature of the sun's surface was like sunbathing, only slightly hot, not even as good as taking a sauna.
Of course, Li Wei was able to survive in such an extreme environment because he had cast spells on himself to adapt to the environment beforehand. He couldn't have done it with such ease by simply using his physical body to fight against the environment.
Ahead of Li Wei, closer to the sun, a gigantic humanoid object floated on the orbit. Li Wei had installed a large number of energy storage devices on the surface of this humanoid object. The sun's light and heat continuously provided energy to this gigantic humanoid object, and Li Wei himself was also passively put into a state of cultivation.
As high-energy celestial bodies in the universe, stars themselves contain enormous energy. Just in our solar system, the Sun accounts for % of the entire system's mass. The remaining % consists of large planets, other quasars, and the asteroid belt. You can imagine how astonishing the Sun's mass is. And the fiercely burning Sun is constantly releasing enormous amounts of heat energy to the outside world.
Li Wei could sense that a massive amount of energy was rapidly flowing into the wishing machine. At this rate, it would take at least a week and at most half a month to complete the recharging.
Li Wei was thinking of taking the wishing machine out to bask in the sun when he saw the device in the Demon Realm that used volcanic heat to generate electricity. He suddenly realized that heat energy is also a form of energy. He had been stuck in a mental rut before, not thinking of this. The greatest source of heat in the entire solar system is right there in the sky, isn't it?
Having figured this out, Li Wei left his puppet clone in the Demon Realm. His main body took the wishing machine to a place very close to the sun. Li Wei and the wishing machine were only three thousand kilometers above the sun's surface. At this height, the solar storms spewing from the sun's surface directly hit Li Wei and the wishing machine's faces. However, for them, such a temperature was like a hairdryer blowing on their face; they only felt a little warm.
As a Qi cultivator, Li Wei has achieved a certain degree of "creating something from nothing." Unlike those in cultivation novels or fantasy novels, he is not limited by the so-called "spiritual energy of heaven and earth" and "root." No matter where he is, he can refine magical power.
Li Wei could replenish the Wishing Machine's energy, but doing so would slow down his cultivation progress. Therefore, Li Wei would not use his magic power to recharge the Wishing Machine unless absolutely necessary.
Now, the sun acts as a giant power bank, constantly replenishing the wishing machine with energy. The limiting factor for the charging speed is no longer the energy itself, but the fact that the wishing machine's energy circuit cannot withstand the sun's enormous energy.
An astronomer once said that stars are the most romantic celestial bodies in the universe. When they are alive, they provide light and heat, offering the most basic conditions for the birth of life. After they die, they turn into black holes and devour everything.
Just like the yin and yang of Tai Chi, stars also have two opposing sides, and Li Wei is currently enjoying the light and heat of a star.
By directly absorbing the heat energy of stars for cultivation, even though the cultivation method Li Wei practiced had its own problems and was inefficient when practicing alone, his cultivation efficiency was still much higher than usual thanks to the endless light and heat of the sun. The only negative effect was that his body would get a little hot, like sunbathing, and if he stayed in the sun for too long, it would hurt him.
While Li Wei's main body was sunbathing with the wishing machine, his various puppet clones were performing their respective duties, pushing the plan forward by a large margin. The evil clone had already locked onto two pantheons that couldn't be moved. As long as his main body solved the problem of the efficiency of refining magic weapons, the evil clone would immediately launch an offensive, take down the two locked pantheons, and use them to refine pills.
Meanwhile, thanks to the matchmaking efforts of the puppet clone Mark, the Alliance for the Salvation of the Sufferers successfully connected with the Chong Kingdom in this world. The two sides have reached an agreement, and now all members of the Alliance for the Salvation of the Sufferers have obtained ID cards and become legitimate citizens of the Chong Kingdom, receiving the same treatment as highly skilled overseas returnees.
This was Li Wei's secret contingency plan for the world's upheaval: the demonization of the entire population.
The Chong people's knowledge of themselves is based on culture rather than bloodline. Ever since Qin Shi Huang unified the world, all subsequent dynasties, regardless of changes or civil wars, would inherit the legitimacy of the previous dynasty and identify themselves as the legitimate successors of the Chong people, thus passing the torch from generation to generation.
Excluding those relatively short-lived periods of chaotic warfare, among the major dynasties of Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing, the Yuan Dynasty was ruled by a foreign ethnic group. However, after entering the Central Plains, the Yuan Dynasty still considered itself the legitimate successor to the Song Dynasty, even though its bloodline could be classified as that of a non-Han people.
After the Ming Dynasty overthrew the Yuan Dynasty, it declared the Yuan Dynasty to be the legitimate successor to the throne, and the Qing Dynasty did the same.
Therefore, Chongguo is a civilization disguised as a nation. When it goes out, it is a barbarian; when it comes in, it is Han. Chongguo is a super-large aggregate that is maintained by culture and tradition, which is something that those European and American countries cannot understand.
It was precisely because of this that, after learning about the current situation in the Demon Realm and the arrival of the Alliance for the Salvation of the Sufferers, the high-ranking officials of Chong Kingdom held a meeting for almost a week. After weighing the pros and cons, Chong Kingdom decided to incorporate all members of the Alliance for the Salvation of the Sufferers into its own ranks.
Of course, the Chong Kingdom's top leadership had their own motives for doing this. The high treatment they gave to their allies came with conditions. Allies were required to transform officially selected individuals into demons, granting them supernatural powers. Then, when the time was right, the entire population would be demonized, gaining supernatural powers.
Mark had only hinted at the plan, but the leaders of Chongguo were incredibly bold. They saw that this plan could bring enormous benefits to all the citizens, even enabling Chongguo to leave Earth and expand its reach beyond its borders. Therefore, this audacious, almost insane plan was unanimously approved at the meeting.
Li Wei himself was quite pleased with this matter. Demons were a derivative system of angels, and although they were branches of artificial gods, their innate status was far inferior to that of existing ancient gods and demons. However, the Chong people never relied on brute force, but on wisdom. The Chong people would not simply use this extraordinary power for destruction, but would use it for the righteous path of construction.
It's important to understand that, both in the real world and in this world, Chongguo is the only country capable of growing vegetables in Antarctica. In that harsh, frigid place, researchers from other countries can only eat tasteless, dried vegetables, while the people of Chongguo, thanks to their unique greenhouse technology, have fresh vegetables to eat every day. This is something that researchers from other countries can only envy and resent, but cannot do themselves.
The people of Chongguo have a deep-rooted love for construction and farming. After landing on the moon, the first message they received upon their return was the absurd news: "Sorry, the lunar soil is unsuitable for growing vegetables."
All these things show that the Chong people have an innate love for construction and development. Even without supernatural powers, the Chong people have already created so many miracles. If the entire Chong people were to acquire supernatural powers, they might be able to grow vegetables all the way to Mars within ten years.
Li Wei had already thoroughly studied the physical structure of demons, so through Mark, he demonized the entire Chong Kingdom. In reality, it was only a superficial demonization; the internal transformation created a completely new existence, which Li Wei called "Cultivation Civilization Individuals."
In other words, those who undergo the transformation will not grow demon horns or wings; they will remain the same as they were in their human form after the transformation is complete. However, after the transformation is complete, they will indeed possess the power called magic.
In fact, in order to complete this transformation, Li Wei not only studied the physical structure of demons, but also secretly captured some immortals from the Heavenly Court of this world to study. Then Li Wei discovered that the immortal arts and magic of this world are actually the same thing, only the names and outward manifestations are different.
It is precisely for this reason that Li Wei refers to the completed individual as a "cultivation civilization individual".
After spending about half a month in the high orbit of the sun, Li Wei recharged the wishing machine and then made another wish, greatly enhancing the Soul-Shattering Bell and the Golden Armor.
After being enhanced by the wish-granting machine, the quality of Li Wei's golden armor was improved, making its defensive capabilities even more outstanding. This meant that even if the opponent gained the upper hand when facing various attacks, Li Wei would not be caught off guard.
Li Wei's current offensive magic weapon, the Soul-Sweeping Bell, has been further enhanced by the wish-granting machine. Its sturdiness has been significantly improved. Enemies that Li Wei dared not absorb before can now be absorbed directly without worrying about the opponent destroying the Soul-Sweeping Bell from the inside. Moreover, the Soul-Sweeping Bell's digestion ability has also been greatly improved, increasing by nearly tenfold, which is quite exaggerated.
The current Soul-Sweeping Bell can quickly digest and refine enemies absorbed into its body, turning them into pills to enhance cultivation, or refining them into materials for various weapon crafting tasks, so that Li Wei doesn't have to worry about material shortages when crafting weapons.
These two wishes emptied the wishing machine again, and now it's in a "suspended state" once more.
However, this is enough for now. Under these conditions, Li Wei's plan can now enter its final stages. Without the convenience brought by the wish-granting machine, Li Wei estimated that he would have had to stay here for several more years, but now, he can settle things here in a few months at most.
Chapter 4. The Great Declaration of War
Li Wei had read this novel in the real world. It described the story of a so-called "time traveler" who became a "witch" and lived in a society where everyone was a witch.
With just a little manipulation, Li Wei could artificially create a race called witches. To be honest, for a powerful being like him, creating a completely new extraordinary race with a template to refer to is not a difficult thing.
Moreover, Li Wei can guarantee that the witch race he creates will have a high growth ceiling. While they may not reach the extreme power of individual cultivators, they will definitely not be weak.
But upon reflection, a world entirely populated by girls, while seemingly wonderful at first glance, actually presents numerous problems. The main issue is the nature of women; if society were entirely composed of women, internal conflicts would be substantial.
Li Wei has seriously read many psychology books and has considerable research experience in psychology. With his current knowledge, he could easily write a few papers that would shake up the entire psychology academic community.
It was precisely because of his in-depth research into psychology that Li Wei discovered the enormous hidden dangers of a society populated entirely by witches. While the world depicted in the novel was beautiful, it was built on the premise that witches could plunder and expand their power. For the witches in the novel, landing on an alien planet was child's play; they controlled life and death, controlled time, and traversing to another world was no difficult feat. It was precisely because of this that a society entirely composed of witches could be maintained.
However, such an extremely extroverted civilization faces immense difficulties in its initial stages. Even if Li Wei had truly created a race called witches, the witch race would easily have perished during its development. Therefore, in matters of civilization, Li Wei still preserved the gender differentiation of humanity. At least, the current situation is much more stable than a completely fictional witch civilization.
Of course, Li Wei could also abandon his bottom line as a human being and create a small-scale witch civilization to observe their development and progress, but such behavior of playing with the lives of his fellow human beings is taboo for Li Wei, and it is a bottom line he would never cross.
Li Wei would treat the lives he created as his own children and fellow citizens. It is precisely for this reason that he would not use the lives he had carefully created to conduct cruel and uncertain social experiments.
The evil clone was extremely efficient. After strengthening the Soul-Sweeping Bell on the main body, it immediately eliminated the two locked pantheons. More than a hundred gods were sent into the Soul-Sweeping Bell and were quickly digested.
Because the Soul-Sweeping Bell's performance has been enhanced to the extreme, its internal digestion speed has become ridiculously fast. The Li Zevim that was thrown in earlier has been completely digested, and the power of the Infinite Dragon God, who is still in the illusion, has also been mostly digested. Now Li Zevim has another batch of high-quality cultivation pills in his hands.
The various clones continued to handle various miscellaneous tasks, while Li Wei's main body remained high in the sun's orbit, consuming elixirs to enhance his cultivation. The Qi Refining path is a very free cultivation system, and it was precisely because of this that Li Wei, drawing upon the Taoist internal and external alchemy schools he had observed in the real world, comprehended two auxiliary paths for cultivation to compensate for the deficiencies in his techniques.
The real world is, after all, a trace of Li Wei's extraordinary power, but now there is no place where extraordinary power exists. Whether it is the internal alchemy school or the external alchemy school, they are most likely cultivation methods devised by ordinary cultivators. Although they are feeling their way across the river, they have summarized some concepts that Li Wei considers useful.
The Neidan (Internal Alchemy) school emphasizes that one's own body is the alchemical furnace, and that cultivation begins with self-cultivation. The foundation-building process in Neidan involves martial arts training to strengthen the body and bones. Establishing a solid foundation before cultivation is crucial; while entry is difficult, progress is rapid once mastered. However, due to environmental and systemic limitations, achieving immortality is impossible, though it can prolong life and improve physical health. In ancient times, even wealthy and powerful ordinary people typically lived only four to five years, but Neidan practitioners could live to over 4 years old without experiencing physical decline or mental deterioration. They would only age rapidly when their life force was exhausted, like a fully inflated balloon suddenly deflated.
The external alchemy school is essentially a pay-to-win system. It's much easier to get started than the internal alchemy school. As long as you have enough, you can start refining pills and use their effects to cultivate.
In ancient times, those who practiced internal alchemy were generally cultivators from relatively humble backgrounds, while those who practiced external alchemy were mostly wealthy and noble, and also possessed a considerable amount of metaphysical knowledge, in order to embark on this path.
In ancient times, when knowledge was wealth, both the internal alchemy school and the external alchemy school were practitioners. However, those who could enter the path of cultivation were extremely rare, perhaps one in ten thousand, or even one in a hundred thousand, compared to the population at the time.
Li Wei also explored various occult knowledge in the real world, including Eastern metaphysics, Western occultism, and even forbidden secret black magic, all of which he studied on his own.
Then Li Wei discovered something interesting: the cultivation methods devised by cultivators in the real world could indeed produce extraordinary power, but the difficulty was like climbing to the heavens on foot, and only a very few people could achieve results.
This brings us to a specific individual: Tesla. Through his research, Levi traced the origins back to the scientific giant Tesla, discovering that he was actually a student of black magic. Of course, Levi couldn't provide direct evidence, but the anomalies related to Tesla were enough to surprise anyone.
Tesla's power could not affect reality, but it could construct a complete spiritual world and use this spiritual world to influence his own and others' minds.
Unlike other scientific researchers, Tesla left behind very few drawings and manuscripts because he possessed a power called "super-brain perception".
Superbrain can simulate various environments in its own mind. Therefore, when Tesla manufactures machines, it actually builds a machine model in its own mind first, lets the machine run in its mind, and modifies any problems directly in its mind until there are no problems at all.
Therefore, while other scientists always leave behind a large number of manuscripts, such as Darwin, Tesla was a "brainstorming fanatic." He kept all his knowledge in his own mind. However, there is a problem with this kind of power belonging to himself. With Tesla's death, the knowledge he possessed would also disappear, unlike other scientists who were able to leave behind a large number of manuscripts for future generations to study.
When Li Wei discovered this fact, he thought he had made a mistake. Tesla was such a scientific genius that even electric cars later used his name as a brand. In many people's minds, the name Tesla itself was synonymous with science, but the truth he revealed was enough to shatter many people's worldviews: Tesla was actually a black magician with considerable expertise in super-brainpowerment.
If he doesn't perform a public display of his abilities, even if he reveals the truth, he will only be seen as trying to attract attention.
Li Wei's main body returned to the Demon Realm, while he retrieved the puppet clone he had used to disguise his existence back into his sea of consciousness.
The weather in the Demon Realm is always gloomy, but the demon nobles still have the tradition of afternoon tea. On the balcony of the top floor of the mansion, Li Wei and the women of the Gremory family are enjoying the breeze and delicious tea and snacks.
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