Chapter 756: The Four Holy Ones
With the appearance of this voice, a net composed of four colors materialized from the void, perfectly enveloping the giant bone claw and the spatial gate behind it.
The face located in the palm of the giant claw revealed an expression of extreme shock upon seeing this net.
"How can you be here?!"
"If you can be, why can't we?" the phantom figure behind the four-colored net replied.
"..."
"I never expected it, truly never expected it, that you would still meddle in the Federation's affairs. Don't you know, the full name of the Federation is the Human Federation?"
"What if it is the Human Federation? We Four Holy Beasts are kindred spirits; can't we cooperate with humans for once?
What's more, this Human Federation will soon change its name..."
The ones conversing with Xiao Chou were precisely the Four Holy Beasts that originally belonged to the Land of White: Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Zhuque, and Xuanwu.
However, as a price, some memories regarding the Land of White were sealed within their minds.
The system, however, promised that if they could ever achieve one-tenth of its power, these sealed memories would return.
But after living in the Land of White for over a hundred years, the Four Holy Beasts had long since realized that as long as the other party didn't fall, given the rate at which the system's power grew, there was simply no possibility of catching up.
The system's power was fundamentally tied to the total number of Holy Progenitors, and the Holy Progenitors in the Land of White increased almost exponentially each year...
"The Federation is changing its name?" Mira and Sera, eavesdropping nearby with the help of a pendant's power, were both shocked by this explosive news.
One must know that the name "Human Federation" had actually been in use for over a century, and was roughly contemporary with the Federation's current calendar system.
It was now the 102nd year of the Daoyuan Era, and the Daoyuan calendar, which had replaced the Common Era, had quietly passed its hundredth birthday.
Yet, even on New Year's Day of the 100th year of the Daoyuan Era, the Federation had not held any grand celebratory ceremony, which had come as a surprise to many young people.
Only a very small number of high-ranking officials who knew the secrets of those years were aware that the Daoyuan Era had a less than glorious past, a darkness that enveloped the entire Federation.
...
A nation's name is its symbol. This move by the Federation would inevitably affect the destinies of countless people.
"What will it be changed to...?" Among the top powerhouses present, whether it was Xiao Chou, or the three True Immortals from Ying Huo's side, all had expressions of confusion at the Azure Dragon Bahamut's words.
"Could it be that the Federation is changing its name, and even I, the Speaker, don't know about it?" The Speaker said, his face cold, watching Bahamut's figure slowly solidify from a phantom.
"Just a few demonic creatures, and you think you can scheme against the Federation? Have you asked the sword in my hand?" The Grand Marshal, who had been sparring with Yun Jie as if with a friend, became serious for the first time.
He was an extreme human supremacist. Ever since over a hundred years ago, from the moment all his family members were killed by the invading Sea Race, Hou Lin had resolved to exterminate all these demons and monsters that plagued the human world.
Hou Lin did not believe there was such a thing as "good demons" or "bad demons." In this world, there was only "If you are not my kin, your heart must be different," and exterminating them was the only right course.
Therefore, the noble-held territories under his jurisdiction were also the regions with the lowest tolerance for wild demonic creatures in the Federation. If a demonic creature was discovered, one was killed, without any excuse.
He even explicitly promulgated laws prohibiting any cultivators within his territories from taming demon beasts as pets, with offenders facing five years imprisonment and a fine of a million.
When this law was first introduced, it had caused considerable controversy, but as Hou Lin gradually ascended to the rank of Grand Marshal and became a True Immortal, all dissenting voices disappeared.
To win over Hou Lin as an ally, the tree demon Ying Huo had always interacted with him as the reincarnated human form of Ning Yan Huo, only then managing to stand within the same camp.
Otherwise, Hou Lin would rather abandon the fight than work with demonic creatures.
"Ramdo, you collude with demonic creatures and betray humanity; your crimes deserve ten thousand deaths!" Hou Lin pointed his sword towards Ramdo's idol.
Although the two sides, on different battlefields, were still hundreds of thousands of kilometers apart, Grand Marshal Hou Lin's killing intent, which felt as solid as a substance, had already followed his martial will and arrived before the idol.
Thought itself is a sword, and can also kill.
"Humans? What part of your entire body is similar to what you call a human?" Ramdo used divine power to deflect Hou Lin's sword of will, which had arrived at light speed, and then retorted loudly.
"You don't even have a spine, yet you dare to call yourself of the family Hominidae, genus Homo, species Sapiens? Step outside this door, and even the realm of vertebrates will have no place for you!"
Once a Human Immortal's Golden Body is formed, their entire body becomes a seamless whole, like the most advanced pure liquid metal robot, with no distinction between internal organs or skeletal weaknesses, and every part can exert full power in attack. Ramdo's words, though sarcastic, were factually not wrong.
"...Born as a human, I will never abandon my self-perception as a human!" Hou Lin, who for a moment didn't know how to refute, for the first time doubted his own convictions, but outwardly had to maintain his stubborn stance.
The debate between cultivators as humans and non-humans had always been a perennial issue.
On one hand, with the advancement of cultivation and repeated life sublimations, the physical structure of cultivators diverged further and further from biological "humans"; from a biological perspective, they could no longer be considered human. After all, the difference between a human and a high-tier cultivator on an dissection table was no longer smaller than the difference between a human and an ant...
But on the other hand, the vast majority of cultivators still lived without hindrance in human society, and almost everyone else still considered them their own kind.
Even in surveys conducted among ordinary people, over 95% of respondents still believed that cultivators were human.
As for cultivators themselves, those who considered themselves human also held the mainstream view.
Most of them believed that they were merely "evolved humans" who had taken a step ahead, and that ordinary people, with effort, could also catch up.
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"How much longer will it take for your four true forms to arrive?" Ramdo quietly sent a telepathic message to the Four Holy Beasts.
"Our true forms? It will probably take another five months to catch up."
Accompanying the Four Holy Beasts when they left was also a considerable number of high, medium, and low-tier demonic beasts. They, too, had no intention of staying in the Land of White, willing to follow their Holy Beast big brothers to carve out a new path in the world.
To accommodate this contingent numbering over ten million, they had also specifically used their last Contribution Points from the Land of White to exchange for four flagships capable of carrying everyone.
PS: I never expected typing on a phone to be so fast; it's much quicker than on a computer..
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