Chapter 1590: Chapter 575_2
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Everything proceeded just as Zhou Tian had originally envisioned; the NPCs were forced into a position where they had to yield. Consequently, during the talks which required no excessive demands, things that would normally take days to negotiate were settled in less than an hour after Zhou Tian spoke.
After the NPCs had agreed to submit to him, Zhou Tian naturally had no more need to stay within their territory. Having achieved the desired outcome, Zhou Tian left the NPC territory right away.
Subsequently, as soon as Zhou Tian left the NPC territory, he proceeded to another Human Emperor’s land.
Having chosen to subjugate those NPCs, Zhou Tian naturally wouldn’t consider giving up on another Monster Force on the Main Plane.
After all, Zhou Tian wasn’t very interested in the power of the Main Plane, so it didn’t matter to him who was in charge there. To Zhou Tian, the greatest value of unifying the Main Plane wasn’t about having great power, but in how much additional strength he could command.
The strength of the Beastman Tribe had always been under Zhou Tian’s control. Now that he had subdued those NPCs, all he needed to do next was to take down that Human Emperor force. Almost all the forces on the Main Plane at that time could then essentially be said to fall into Zhou Tian’s hands.
Although subduing the Human Emperor’s force wasn’t as easy as subduing the NPCs, Zhou Tian didn’t consider it to be too difficult either.
Those NPCs, being a new race transformed from Humans, would understand the stakes once they were intimidated by Zhou Tian. Forcing them into submission was extremely easy for Zhou Tian—after all, his formidable might had already been deeply ingrained in their hearts during previous battles.
Subduing the monsters within the Human Emperor’s forces might not be achievable by the same methods, but if Zhou Tian were to use force, it would be very easy to achieve his goal.
If those NPCs are seen as the people of the Central Plains from ancient times, then the existence of the Monster Force is like that of the Grassland Tribes. With superior strength, Zhou Tian could easily make the NPCs submit; through various teachings, the NPCs would be sure to fall in line.
When dealing with those monsters, force must be employed.
Whether low or high-level, monsters respect force and not virtue. Reasoning with them is useless—they wouldn’t heed it at all. For such targets, there’s no shortcut to subjugation; the only method is to overpower them.
The one with the bigger fist dictates the rules. Although higher-ranking monsters have acquired wisdom, they still retain their beastly instincts. Even though Zhou Tian and them are archenemies, as long as he can now muster the strength to subdue those monsters, then that Human Emperor’s force will definitely not dare to act recklessly in front of him.
From this perspective, it seems that subduing the Human Emperor’s force should be very easy for Zhou Tian. After all, his strength is now extremely powerful. With his current abilities, if he really wanted to, even annihilating the Human Emperor’s force with his own power wouldn’t pose any problems.
However, while subduing the Human Emperor’s force appears to be the easiest, Zhou Tian knows that those monsters are much harder to subdue than NPCs.
With the NPCs, because of the power structure, Zhou Tian could subdue them just by convincing the high levels to submit; even if there were dissenting voices among the NPCs, the situation of their submission wouldn’t change at that point. On the contrary, although the monsters seem the easiest to subdue, if Zhou Tian were truly to do so, he would inevitably encounter some difficulties.
Simple-minded beings may seem easy to deceive, but because of their simple way of thinking, they often cling to fixed ideas, and changing their thoughts is an extremely difficult task.
Indeed, the concept of obeying the stronger is deeply entrenched in the souls of all monsters. But the current problem is, for the monsters, obedience to the stronger is fine, but the precondition is that the strong one must be their own BOSS.
Whether due to naive thought processes or specific rules in play, although there’s no shortage of monsters who want to rise in rank, for the average monster, their loyalty to their faction’s BOSS is unquestionable.
Just like Zhou Tian at the beginning, even if he didn’t care much about the Beastman Tribe or even rarely appeared before the common Beastmen, when his subordinates’ little BOSS chose to rebel, there were still very few Beastmen who followed suit. Such a situation didn’t arise because Zhou Tian was immensely popular; it was simply because he had always been the BOSS of the Beastman Tribe.