I died young at the start, but I'm reincarnated with unlimited skill points!

Great Zhou Dynasty.

Southern border, Suining Prefecture.

In a remote county town under the jurisdiction of Suining Prefecture, something neither major nor minor happened.

A group of mortals gathered in front of the black iron spire in the center of the county town and collectively detonated the Mortal Self-Severance Technique.

There were only about three hundred people.

The explosion was not large in scale; the spiritual energy storm only covered an area of ​​a few dozen feet, cracking the magic array on the outer wall of the spire in several places.

The two mid-stage Qi Refining demons stationed there were burned, but did not die.

By the standards of evil, this was just a trivial disturbance.

The Golden Core demon of Suining Prefecture didn't even bother to get involved personally, but simply sent a few Foundation Establishment stage subordinates to clean up the mess.

But this matter reached Xue Du's ears.

In the southwest corner of the Great Zhou Dynasty, there is a large border city with tens of millions of people.

This is the place that Chi Yuan allocated to Xue Du.

As a great demon at the peak of the Golden Core stage, he was not reduced to living on the streets, but he could only live under someone else's roof.

Although Chi Yuan and the other Golden Core demons privately mocked him as a "stray dog" who couldn't even be subdued by mortals, they did not neglect the supplies for this high-ranking fellow demon.

With the help of the abundant demonic energy of the Great Zhou Dynasty, Xue Du was finally able to slowly recover his Golden Core Great Perfection cultivation.

The cracks on the demon's body had mostly healed. Although some faint, painful marks remained, it was no longer the porcelain that looked like it was about to break at any moment.

His cultivation level has returned, but Xue Du's status in the Great Zhou demon circle has plummeted, and he has become a marginal figure.

until today.

A low-level demon who had escaped from Suining Prefecture tremblingly reported the "trivial matter" to it.

Three hundred mortals besieged the spire and collectively detonated it.

Two mid-stage Qi Refining demons were injured.

The demonic energy descended from a radius of several dozen feet.

Xue Du listened quietly to the report.

It didn't laugh.

On the contrary, an almost uncontrollable shudder crept up its demonic spine little by little.

"Three hundred people."

Xue Du repeated it in a low voice, a deep fear surging in the depths of his vertical pupils.

"It covers an area of ​​several tens of feet in circumference."

"Mid-stage Qi Refining, injured."

It's all too familiar with this opening.

These words are so familiar to it that they feel like a death knell tolling on its very soul!

It recalled the scene when it first fled to the Great Zhou Dynasty, kneeling before Chi Yuan and earnestly pleading with him.

"Lord Akashi, the self-mutilation method of mortals is extremely terrifying; we must take precautions against it!"

What did Chi Yuan say again?

"Da Li is Da Li, and Da Zhou is Da Zhou. Just because you can't control your mortals doesn't mean I can't."

"Don't use your incompetence to insult my Great Zhou."

Xue Du wanted to refute, but looking at Chi Yuan's arrogant and domineering face, he swallowed his words.

It's no use saying anything.

Chi Yuan won't believe it.

Just like I was back then.

Demons who have never been personally overwhelmed by the sea of ​​reckless mortals will never believe that ants can overturn the heavens.

"You guys..."

Xue Du leaned against the cold wall of the stone chamber, his vertical pupils tightly closed, his voice trembling slightly due to extreme repression and fear.

"Exactly the same as me back then."

"They think mortals are like livestock, and that livestock can't turn the world upside down."

"They thought killing a bunch of them would make them behave, and arresting a few ringleaders would make the rest scatter."

"and then?"

Xue Du opened his eyes, and those once ferocious eyes were now filled with only bottomless despair and hopelessness.

"Then you will find that your killings will only become fuel, making that fire burn even brighter..."

The low-level demon who had escaped from Suining Prefecture huddled in a corner and asked a question tremblingly.

"Lord Blood Crossing, then... then what should we do?"

Xue Du remained silent for a long time.

"What should we do?"

Xue Du raised his hand, looking at the faintly painful dark mark on his demonic body, like a drowning person who had completely given up the struggle.

"The law of mortal self-mutilation has arrived; another dynasty is about to fall."

Its tone was light and airy, revealing a numbness and despondency after its Dao heart had been completely shattered by that terrifying power.

In Chi Yuan's eyes, it was nothing but a joke, a foreign Golden Core cultivator who had lost its territory. Why should he bother with it?

They're either waiting to die or preparing to flee again.

……

The "minor matter" in Suining Prefecture was quickly suppressed by the demonic high-ranking officials of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Chi Yuan didn't even personally intervene.

A mere disturbance by three hundred mortals is hardly enough to alarm a Nascent Soul cultivator?

It simply strengthened its control over and severely suppressed the Golden Core demons under its command.

It was exactly the same thing Xue Du said to Zhao Chengqian back then.

But just like everything that happened in Dali.

They never learn their lessons.

Because the formula has already spread!

The three hundred people from Suining Prefecture were just the first spark to ignite a fire.

On the southern border of the Great Zhou, merchants, refugees, fishermen, and beggars who had flowed in from Da Li had brought the incantation into the land of the Great Zhou as early as two or three years ago.

That short, catchy, and unforgettable mnemonic, less than a hundred words long, quietly took root among the ordinary people at the bottom of the Great Zhou Dynasty, like a seed.

After Suining Prefecture comes Linfang City.

After Linfang City comes Yuejiang Prefecture.

After Yuejiang Prefecture.

In the following six months, more than a dozen prefectures and counties in the southern part of the Great Zhou Dynasty experienced one after another incidents triggered by gatherings of mortals.

The scale ranges from hundreds to thousands, and the damage caused ranges from "scratching the skin" to "directly burning Qi Refining stage demons to death."

The demonic leaders of the Great Zhou Dynasty have finally begun to take this seriously.

Chi Yuan convened an emergency meeting of all Golden Core demons in the realm.

There was only one item on the agenda.

How to completely eradicate the spread of the practice of mortal self-mutilation in the Great Zhou Dynasty.

They discussed it for three days and three nights, and finally came up with a plan.

Mass purges, blockades, bans, guilt by association, whistleblowing...

It was exactly the same thing that Xue Du did in Da Li.

Xue Du was not invited to that meeting.

It only learned of Chi Yuan's plan afterward from the mouth of that low-level demon.

After listening, Xue Du leaned against the wall of the stone chamber and sadly closed his vertical pupils.

He had no other thoughts, only one idea.

"It's time to find a different place to lie down..."