Chapter 626: Negotiation with the Spirit King
Ye Changsheng smiled, looked at the other person carefully for a few times, and said calmly:
"In fact, I am not very interested in things like tribe expansion. The specific things are all done by Daoist Mo and his friends. I just do it for the sake of convenience!"
"As for the Eldar, there is no deep hatred between us. Our race has never actively expanded outwards before, and neither have you. Although there are conflicts between us, there is no blood feud!"
"Moreover, our two races are the same. We appeared in the spiritual world almost at the same time!" Ye Changsheng said with a faint smile.
When King Ling heard this, his eyes flickered and no one knew what he was thinking.
It is indeed as Ye Changsheng said, the human race and the elves are the same races that appeared in the spirit world at about the same time, and they both appeared in this area.
Both tribes fought their way down from the territories of the Yaksha, Shadow and other tribes and seized a piece of living space.
Compared with the hatred between these two ethnic groups, the conflict between these two ethnic groups can only be described as a minor conflict.
"What do you mean by saying these things now, Fellow Daoist Ye? I don't believe that you will ignore the development of the human race. If I take action against the Mahayana of your human race, will Fellow Daoist Ye sit idly by?" The Spiritual King asked after his eyes flashed.
Ye Changsheng did not answer him directly, but said calmly:
"I said these words because I don't want to fight with you, lest someone else take advantage of me. As for the future relationship between the spirit race and the human race, it still depends on your opinion! "
"If you want to start a war, then I will naturally accompany you. If you want to take the spirits away from this area and find another place to survive, I will never stop you!"
"Of course, if you want to stay in the old place and don't want to leave, it's not impossible for our tribes to coexist!"
"After all, we humans and the demons can coexist. The demons eat humans, and humans kill demons for their elixirs. Logically, our two races are enemies of each other, but we can still live in harmony. There is no fundamental contradiction between the spirits and humans, and there is no reason for us to have a life-and-death battle!" Ye Changsheng said lightly.
However, he immediately gave the initiative of choice to the Spirit King.
"Why, Brother Ye, do you want my spirit race to become a vassal of the human race like the demon race?" The Spirit King said with a somewhat unhappy expression upon hearing this.
"Haha, what are you talking about, fellow Daoist? It's just about living in harmony!" Ye Changsheng said with a smile.
"This isn't something strange, is it? There are so many races living in harmony in the spirit world, such as the Feiling Clan and the Thirteen Tianyun Clans of the Thunder Continent. Aren't these all the various races gathered together?"
"snort!"
Hearing this, King Ling snorted coldly.
The Feiling people are said to be a racial aggregate, but aren’t they still dominated by those few ethnic groups?
As for the Thirteen Tianyun Clans, they can get along equally because each clan has a Mahayana-level existence. If any clan has no Mahayana for a long time, how can it coexist with the other clans?
Now the strength of the elves is so far behind that of humans. In a short period of time, the elves may be able to stand shoulder to shoulder with humans, but over time, they will inevitably become vassals.
After all, the human race has never lacked population. As long as there are enough resources, the strength of this race will be improved quickly. If more than ten Mahayana masters appear one after another, the spirit race will completely become a vassal!
As for the spirit race, the Spirit King currently cannot see anyone in the spirit race who has the ability to advance to the Mahayana stage.
In fact, in the one million years since the spirit race came to the spirit world, no one except him has been able to advance to the Mahayana stage.
This race was completely pushed up by him. Without him, the elves would immediately disappear in the long river of history.
Ye Changsheng proposed that the spirits and humans live in harmony, which is nothing more than a peaceful way to annex the spirits. In the future, the spirits may become slaves of humans, just like in the fairy world.
The Spirit King would never allow such a thing to happen. He himself was born a spirit slave and finally gained his freedom. How could he accept repeating such a fate?
"There are only three paths before you. It's up to you to choose which one to choose. I still say the same thing. If the spirit race wants to fight, I will definitely accompany you!" Ye Changsheng said calmly.
As for the elves, even if he didn't think from the perspective of expanding for the human race, he had to find a way to deal with them.
As the saying goes, how can you allow others to sleep peacefully beside your bed?
Such an old monster should either die, leave, or become one of our own. In short, Ye Changsheng is not at ease letting such an unstable factor stay next to the human race.
If one day when he is not around, the Spirit King suddenly attacks his people, then no one in the human race will be able to stop him.
"It seems that Fellow Daoist Ye is determined not to let the spirit race go!" The Spirit King's face became expressionless, making it hard to figure out what he was thinking.
"What are you talking about, Daoist friend? Ye has shown his sincerity. Daoist friend, you probably don't know yet, right? Recently, another Daoist friend of my human race has advanced to the Mahayana stage!"
"Moreover, there is also a celestial phoenix beside Ye, the same celestial phoenix that left the Nangen Desert a million years ago!"
"If Ye really doesn't want to let the spirit race go, then as long as I join forces with that Sky Phoenix, I'm sure I can kill you!"
"Even if you are from the fairyland and have many hidden cards, we cannot kill you, but we can still hold you back and let the rest of you destroy the spirit race!" Ye Changsheng said leisurely.
When the Spirit King heard his last words, his face suddenly changed and a terrifying aura suddenly burst out from his body.
"You actually know that I'm from the fairyland? Who are you? Could it be that you really are from the upper realm and a banished fairy as the rumors say?"
There was a terrifying murderous intent in the Spirit King's eyes, and he looked extremely excited.
As a spirit slave who defected from the fairy world, there is no doubt that what he fears the most and what he hates the most are the fairies in the fairy world.
Once discovered by these people, they would most likely capture him again and force him back into the dark life he had before.
Once a bird in a cage has tasted freedom, it will never want to go back.
"Haha, Brother Ling Wang, why are you so excited? I didn't expect that Ye could actually guess your origins with just a casual guess!"
"With your strength, if you are not from the fairyland, I really can't think of where else you can be trained!" Ye Changsheng said with a laugh.
"As for whether Ye is a banished immortal, hehe, I can tell you clearly that I am not. However, Ye knows that there is a real immortal from the lower world somewhere in the spiritual world, so you better be careful!" Ye Changsheng said meaningfully.
When King Ling heard this, his expression suddenly changed several times and became uncertain.
At the same time, the terrifying aura that erupted from his body suddenly dissipated, and he became calm again.
"I didn't expect that I underestimated Fellow Daoist Ye. It seems that you know far more secrets than I imagined!" The Spirit King said slowly after his face changed several times.
"Haha, so what are your plans now, fellow Daoist?" Ye Changsheng brought the topic back to the relationship between the two tribes.
"If you are worried about the human race enslaving the spirit race, you can rest assured. After I ascend to heaven, who among the human race will be able to suppress you? I'm afraid you will never ascend to the fairyland, right?" Ye Changsheng continued to dispel the other party's doubts.
"If possible, I don't want to start a war easily. In this case, we still have some room for negotiation!"
"As for your proposal of peaceful coexistence, let me give it some more thought. I believe I will give you a satisfactory answer soon!" After thinking for a while, King Ling suddenly said this.
"Okay, then I'll be looking forward to Brother Ling Wang's reply. It won't be long before the human race will hold a Mahayana ceremony for me. I hope to meet Brother Ling Wang then!" Ye Changsheng laughed and said.
Upon hearing this, the Spirit King looked at him deeply, nodded and said, "I will definitely show up when the time comes. Fellow Daoist Ye, I'll take my leave first!"
As he said this, he clasped his hands together, bowed, and then flew away.
"Hey, this old monster is really unfathomable, but there is no harm in winning him over!" Ye Changsheng thought secretly as he watched the disappearing figure of the Spirit King.
As long as the Eldar and the Human race are tied to the same chariot, it can basically be guaranteed that one's side will have a top master who can be in charge for many years.
Anyway, the population of the elves is so small that they can never develop, and they will basically not pose any threat in the future.
And the Spirit King is not someone who likes to manipulate power. This old guy just wants to survive in the spirit world.
In Ye Changsheng's opinion, making friends with the Spirit King is a sure-win business. He is not the kind of person who has racial obsession, and he has no objection to the addition of another race to the human camp.
After King Ling left, Ye Changsheng also returned to Tianyuan City. After talking with Zen Master Jin Yue and others for a few words, he returned to Linghuang City.
The human race is planning to hold a Mahayana ceremony for him.
However, originally this Mahayana ceremony was held for him alone, but now that the Spiritual Emperor has also become a Mahayana, the ceremony for both of them may have to be held together.
The ceremony for the two will be held after the human and demon armies return triumphantly. At that time, four Mahayana monks from both the human and demon races will appear, and a large number of monks from other races will be invited to watch the ceremony. It will undoubtedly be a grand event.
Time passes day by day, and before you know it, decades have passed in the blink of an eye.
In the past few decades, both the human and demon races have been changing at an almost ever-changing speed, and the degree of this change exceeds the total of the past hundreds of thousands of years.
The three major tribes were completely defeated and destroyed, their territories were annexed, leaving only one elf tribe surrounded alone.
The human race's territory expanded several times in an instant, and Tianyuan City, which was originally the front line, suddenly became a transit station.
As their sphere of influence expanded, a large amount of resources quickly poured into the two races. With the accumulation of these resources, a large number of cultivators quickly broke through their original realm.
The overall strength of the two races has undergone a direct leap. Not to mention how many low-level cultivators have appeared, in just these few decades, a surge of three people have advanced to the fusion stage.
Among ordinary people , there are quite a few top-level body cultivators who have successfully transformed into cultivators after obtaining resources in the wilderness.
Among the human race, from the combined cultivators to the ordinary mortals, everyone chanted Ye Changsheng's name, and countless families even worshipped him directly.
Ye Changsheng even vaguely felt the lingering power of faith. If he could master the cultivation methods of the immortals in the fairy world, perhaps he could create a god.
In this atmosphere of worship by the entire clan, the Mahayana ceremonies for Ye Changsheng and Ling Huang were gradually held.
This news not only spread quickly among the human race, but also spread to the surrounding races. Some medium-sized and large tribes in the northwest of Fengyuan Continent all heard about Ye Changsheng's Mahayana ceremony.
Undoubtedly, the expansion of the human race and the various things about Ye Changsheng's reputation have reached their ears.
Regarding such a fantastic event as beheading the Seven-Headed Owl, most of the tribes who had just heard the news were basically skeptical.
They didn't believe it, but they didn't doubt it completely either. Instead, they held a tentative attitude and sent people to the human race to watch the ceremony, wanting to see what the strength of this new Mahayana of the human race was.
These ethnic groups still attached great importance to the Mahayana ceremony of the human race, and sent sufficiently influential figures.
Some ethnic groups close to the current human territory, and the Mahayana members of the tribe even went out directly, wanting with heavy hearts to find out the specific situation of this new neighbor.
Regardless of whether Ye Changsheng's legendary combat power is true or not, the fact that the human race has produced two Mahayana masters at once and has leapt into a medium-sized force is always something worthy of attention.
There are actually only about sixty or seventy prominent ethnic groups on Fengyuan Continent, of which there are a dozen large ethnic groups and more than twenty medium-sized ethnic groups.
There are not many middle-level ethnic groups, and any ethnic group that leaps to this level is enough to attract the attention of the entire Fengyuan Continent.
Major tribes such as the Mayfly, Ancient Li, Changyuan, etc. sent envoys one after another, and this Mahayana ceremony suddenly turned into a diplomatic conference.
As for the human race, the ceremony became extremely lively because of it. Even those who had been practicing in seclusion for hundreds or thousands of years could no longer sit still and all came out to watch this grand ceremony.
Because according to convention, all new Mahayana monks will publicly explain their past insights and experiences in practice at the Mahayana ceremony.
This is an extremely rare opportunity for those who are ready to break through the bottleneck or have been stuck at the bottleneck for many years.
Naturally, they would not let it go easily. After listening to the explanation of the new Mahayana practitioner, they might suddenly understand what they have learned and easily break through the bottleneck.
It’s not like this hasn’t happened in the past!
Thus, in this atmosphere of great attention from both inside and outside, this Mahayana ceremony was held!
