My brother is so cunning

Chapter 1065 Pressing forward step by step

"Please don't misunderstand, I am a highly accomplished Taoist master, how could I harm the innocent..."

"Hard to say! You are an immortal of the Chan Sect, and the Chan Sect never considers intelligent beings other than humans as human beings!"

Zhao Mingcheng's eyes sharpened, and he said sternly, "You'd better not have harmed my students, otherwise I swear, even if my cultivation level is low now, even if you don't allow me to live to seek revenge, unless you destroy my soul and spirit, I will definitely cut off your path to immortality and destroy your foundation, even if it takes a hundred reincarnations, and make you regret it!"

It was Yun Zhongzi who captured and interrogated Zhao Mingcheng, but after a few words, Yun Zhongzi showed his weakness instead. Before he could get any clues out of him, the other party had already deduced more information from him.

In the past, if a peak Golden Immortal descended to the mortal realm and asked a Mahayana cultivator a question, that Mahayana cultivator, even if he came from the Jade Void Palace, would have to be respectful and trembling, wishing he could kowtow to the ground, shout "Long live the Emperor!" and call him "Immortal," humble to the point of being in the mud.

After the Great Tribulation of the Investiture of the Gods, cultivators in the mortal realm took the supremacy of strength to the extreme, especially the Chan Sect, which believed in interpreting the Dao of Heaven. Regardless of right or wrong, those with higher cultivation and greater strength had the right to speak and could represent the Dao of Heaven. What they said was the law of Heaven.

The gods in Heaven are even more particular about this concept of hierarchy. If a cultivator in the lower realm shows the slightest negligence, he can be labeled as disobeying a celestial being and severely punished for violating heavenly rules.

Although Yun Zhongzi disapproved of this approach and never put on airs of an immortal, he gradually grew accustomed to the obsequiousness and flattery of lower-level cultivators through his years of travel.

Unexpectedly, after leaving the seclusion, he encountered a cultivator from the Jie Sect who was so humble and dignified.

Although his cultivation level was lower, his aura was on par with his, and he was not inferior in the slightest.

Yun Zhongzi couldn't help but recall the demon immortals of the Jie Sect before the Investiture of the Gods. They had the same temperament, and in their eyes, there was no distinction between superior and inferior. Even when facing a saint, some Jie Sect immortals were so audacious that they took the initiative to attack.

To the immortals of the Chan Sect, this was simply unbelievable; even if they had a hundred times the courage, they would never do such a thing.

Seven hundred years have passed, and the new generation of disciples of the Jie Sect still upholds their fearless spirit. Faced with powerful figures far surpassing their own level, they still refuse to bow down and obediently submit to the Heavenly Dao as interpreted by these powerful figures.

"Calm down, I really haven't done anything heinous. I swear on my inner demons that I absolutely haven't harmed your students..."

"You sound a little guilty."

"Okay, maybe I hurt her feelings... but..."

"No buts, oh, I see, you must have disguised yourself as a handsome or strong man and used sweet words to deceive those naive girls!"

"Hey, how can you, a mere Mahayana cultivator, be more shrewd than an immortal... No, this humble Taoist has never had any worldly desires, nor has he ever intentionally deceived anyone..."

Yun Zhongzi had lived for tens of thousands of years, and this was the first time he had been so embarrassed. He was so embarrassed by someone's words that he turned red in the face and broke out in a sweat.

Zhao Mingcheng had taught three classes of Demon Insect Girls, and he knew these girls better than his own children. He knew their weaknesses all too well.

—An incurable romantic mind.

Not all Demon Insect Girls have this defect. According to official statistics, about 10% of Demon Insect Girls have genetic defects that lead to weakened prefrontal cortex function and neurotransmitter imbalance.

The specific manifestation of these two brain functional defects is that the girl with the genetic disease will have a very strong urge to mate with certain members of the opposite sex; in layman's terms, it is "love at first sight".

During his decades-long career teaching in rural areas, Zhao Mingcheng was the biggest victim of this genetic disease. All the difficulties he faced in his work ultimately stemmed from this condition. "Hmph, you old sage, you have no morals, you cheat and seduce!"

Thinking of how he was as innocent as a blank sheet of paper, and how once he showed symptoms, he would wholeheartedly devote himself to the person he loved, only to be exploited by this hypocritical beast in front of him to extract secrets of the Demon Alliance, Zhao Mingcheng felt a burning hatred.

"Still putting on airs and acting mysterious in front of me, claiming to be some kind of enlightened master, how shameless!"

"Stop talking, I'm not that kind of immortal!"

Yun Zhongzi wished he could disappear into a crack in the ground. He was utterly speechless and had no way to defend himself, and he almost broke down.

To be honest, he didn't mean to deceive, but honestly, he couldn't say that he handled the matter honorably.

"Enough. I have a clear conscience. You should stop making wild guesses."

Yun Zhongzi decisively interrupted the topic, fearing that he would not only fail to find any clues but also lose his Dao heart and develop inner demons.

"In short, I have found out that the so-called new race women who have immigrated to the cities of the Demon Alliance in the past ten years or so have all been indoctrinated by the Jie Sect in the secret realm."

"Those new insectoids are not demonesses in human form. The underground secret realm where you taught is their birthplace, and the way they were born..."

At this point, Yun Zhongzi paused slightly, looked into Zhao Mingcheng's eyes, and said, "You've stayed there for so many years, spending every day with them, you must know something about them, right?"

Zhao Mingcheng turned his head away, wary of Yun Zhongzi using his soul-searching and mind-searching powers on him, and said coldly, "I don't know. The regulations for volunteer teachers prohibit us from inquiring about students' backgrounds. Even if I knew, I would never tell you!"

"You do know something, even if it's just a guess, you must have guessed something, right?"

Yun Zhongzi did indeed use a mental supernatural power, but it was not a soul-searching technique, but rather a divine sense sensing technique.

The Soul Searching Technique is too domineering. If the soul is forcibly searched, it will shatter Zhao Mingcheng's three souls and seven spirits, turning him into an idiot. This would create enormous evil karma, and Yun Zhongzi would never act so barbarically.

Although the technique of divine sense cannot probe a person's memories, it can sense the fluctuations in their emotions, thereby roughly deducing some information that the other party is deliberately concealing.

Knowing that too much talk would lead to mistakes, Zhao Mingcheng chose to remain silent this time.

"As far as I know, during the time you were teaching in the countryside, the mortal realm was experiencing a demonic calamity. The Blood Sea Demon Clan invaded the mortal realm, and the Creator Heavenly Venerable drained the water from the five lakes and four seas of the mortal realm. He then used a wonderful dehydration creation secret method to take in all the mortals except for those from Xiniu Hezhou."

"You were awakened and sent to an underground secret realm to teach a group of new races that appeared out of nowhere. Didn't you make any connections or wonder where this new race came from?"

"The answer couldn't be more obvious, could it?"

"You should have guessed long ago that the new race is actually a subspecies of the Blood Sea Demon Clan!"

(End of this chapter)