Free Web NovelChapter 321: Chapter 46: The Order of Evil
But in an era of waning Spiritual Qi, even a Divine Bird had to master special techniques. The Five Elements Reincarnation Spirit Technique, developed by the Peacock Divine Bird, allowed one to convert a single portion of Spiritual Qi into another type in the generative cycle at will. For instance, if Su Zhou’s Spiritual Power was Flame-aspected, he could transform it following the sequence of Fire creating Earth, Earth bearing Metal, and Metal carrying Water. One moment, he could be throwing a Yara Explosion Fist capable of blasting someone to bits, and the next, he could rapidly convert his power to erect the Central Thick Earth Rock Wall Technique, a defense so solid even a missile couldn’t shatter it.
To put it more simply: one second, Su Zhou could be Calling the Wind and Summoning the Rain to strike with lightning. The next, using Five Elements Reincarnation, he could transform his Wood-aspected Wind Thunder Power into a raging Flame and unleash a Super Effect Fireball. An enemy who had put up a Faraday Cage to defend against electricity would be left dumbfounded. Then, just as they scrambled to douse the flames with a Water Technique, Su Zhou would switch again, this time controlling earth and rock with an Earth Technique.
Who could possibly stand up to that?
For the Divine Bird Peacock, this Five Elements Reincarnation was mainly useful for rapidly switching to more effective magic while bombarding enemies with its Five Elements Divine Light. After all, now that Spiritual Qi had been revitalized, it could control the Five Elements Spiritual Power simultaneously without needing the Reincarnation technique.
However, even for a Divine Bird, this Spirit Technique would grant it stronger control over its Magic Techniques, greater power, and enhanced adaptability—a massive advantage in a battle between equals.
’I can’t believe it. They really were a people of such great perseverance and Determination... No wonder they became the kings of the Feathered Race.’
After consuming the Evil Soul, Su Zhou now understood the legacy of the Five Elements Reincarnation Spirit Technique.
Furthermore, he also gained a rough understanding of the situation in the Beast God Realm, the world beyond the Space-Time Passage.
In Su Zhou’s mind, images of the Peacock Divine Birds surfaced—their anxieties and reflections across different eras, as well as their discussions with other Beast Kings.
’Our world is gradually heading toward destruction. The Immortal Gods sealed the passages connecting us to the outside, and as the Spirit Beasts continue to multiply, the world is reaching its breaking point.’
’Unless we self-castrate—culling the vast majority of the Beastfolk, and even some of the Divine Beast descendants who consume most of the Extraordinary resources, to release their Spiritual Qi back into the world—our world will inevitably enter a true Dharma Decline Era. Aside from migrating outward, this is our only choice. But most of the Beastfolk are of the Slave Species. Though lowly, they are our foundation. If we kill them, our civilization will collapse.’ freeweɓnøvel.com
’We must migrate, expand outward... But every possible path to the outside world has been blocked by the Immortal Gods. As the defeated, we are nothing more than livestock being farmed within this world...’
’If we are willing to accept the teachings of the Immortal Gods and become "human," will the Dharma Seal they left behind activate and break the main Seal...? So that’s their goal—to make us into so-called "humans," so-called "demons"...’
Silence. And then, a dark resentment, congealed in their very bloodline.
’Never...!’
’We are Divine Birds—we will never submit!’ freewёbnoνel.com
Several thousand years ago, the Immortal Gods, who appeared from an unknown place, stumbled upon the ’Beast God Realm’—a world that had birthed countless Divine Beasts and Exotic Beasts. Led by the West Mother Great Venerable, they defeated the realm’s greatest Powerhouse, a mighty tree in the sea that called itself the ’Life Lord,’ and conquered the world.
The Life Lord fell into silence. The other Divine Beasts, who had until then lived in ignorance like simple animals, received the teachings of the Immortal Gods.
They were given names and divided into the five classes of ’Luo, Lin, Mao, Yu, and Kun.’ Within these classes, they were further separated into individual Races based on similar lineage—concepts the ’beasts,’ in their previous ignorant existence, had never understood.
From that day forward, they had families, they had Races, and they became aware of the existence of civilization. But the arrogant parting message left by the Immortal Gods declared that only humans, only the Immortal Gods themselves, possessed true civilization. They claimed they had no time to slowly civilize such beasts, but if one day the beasts adopted their etiquette and became human, then the Beast God Realm would regain its freedom.
But the Divine Beasts, having now gained sapience, were stubborn to an unimaginable degree, a trait ingrained in their very bloodline memories. Had they remained simple beasts, they likely would have submitted long ago. But the teachings of the Immortal Gods had given them wisdom, turning them into intelligent life. And now that they understood honor and shame, good and evil, etiquette and civilization, the Divine Beasts found themselves unable to accept the humiliation of their defeat.
Even if the Immortals’ civilization was clearly more advanced, it didn’t matter. They would rather start from scratch and develop a civilization all their own than ever acknowledge the civilization of the Immortal Gods who had invaded their world.
Sitting before the Space-Time Passage, Su Zhou frowned, staring into the massive black hole from which no Evil Beast had emerged for some time. ’No, they weren’t Evil Beasts,’ he corrected himself. According to the Peacock’s memories, the so-called Evil Beasts were merely members of a ’slave class,’ a racial hierarchy of their own creation.
This slave class was divided into the ’Devotion Species’ and the ’Slave Species.’ The Devotion Species were Races whose intelligence had been bred out of them. They grew extremely fast and could be quickly raised as palatable food, including specially cultivated Races like rabbits among land animals, chickens among birds, and seaweed from the oceans.
And the Slave Species were these very Evil Beasts. Their intelligence was also ’castrated,’ leaving them with only instinct and obedience. They could perform all kinds of heavy manual labor—mining, farming, harvesting, and serving as battle fodder. They were also used by the higher Races to power special Arrays or as ’blood sacrifices’ for particular needs.
