Sect Recruitment: I Can See Attribute Entries

Chapter 678: Chapter 679: Did You Really Do It?

Within Yunmeng Marsh.

Two inexplicable trends began to sweep through.

One came from top to bottom. Ever since the Yunze God issued the first divine decree prohibiting fighting, not even a month had passed before another divine decree came pressing down.

It wasn’t just the decree that came. Demons directly under the Yunze God’s command were also sent to supervise.

Harming mortals and mutual fighting were now capital crimes during this martial law period.

There were even cases where demons hadn’t even acted—just the sound of them arranging a fight leaked out, and the next day, the one who had initiated the challenge could no longer find anyone to fight.

At this time in Yunmeng Marsh, matters concerning mortals and fighting went directly to the heavenly envoys of Yunmeng Marsh. The intensity was truly shocking.

Logically, such domineering demands should have made even the Yunze God extremely dissatisfied. Among the great demons, there were certainly some who coveted the Yunze God’s position. But at this very moment, not a single one of Yunmeng Marsh’s top demons opposed it.

Instead, they all assisted the Yunze God in the suppression.

Such abnormal circumstances naturally led to rumors circulating.

The rumor was that Yunmeng Pavilion’s current core disciple, Zheng Zhaoling, had extremely pressured the Yunze God. The specific content was unknown, but it was said the pressure was so great that the Yunze God contacted all the elders from Yunmeng Pavilion who had been friends with her mother in the past.

Such favors were naturally used up one by one, especially when the target was Zheng Zhaoling.

Barring any accidents, this person would inevitably be the one to lead Yunmeng Pavilion in the future.

One could see how critical the situation had been. But the effect was also there.

Yunmeng Marsh was still autonomously governed by demons. It was just that before Zheng Zhaoling left Yunmeng Marsh, everything would be strict. At the very least, they couldn’t give Zheng Zhaoling another opportunity to let Yunmeng Pavilion fully intervene in Yunmeng Marsh.

Otherwise, when that time came, what good days would any demon have?

When the news spread, the demons’ indignation naturally decreased considerably. After all, when things were abnormal, they could naturally be understood.

Then came the second trend, rising from bottom to top.

Some marginal minor demons seized this opportunity and began frantically subsidizing, going so far as to practically serve mortals like cattle and horses, with demands lowered again and again.

They even eliminated daily worship and incense offerings, focusing only on attracting people from surrounding villages.

When many villagers discovered that the demons, restricted from acting, truly weren’t blocking them, nearly a great migration began throughout Yunmeng Marsh.

The previously unspoken rules were now completely broken. Many demons, watching their villages lose nearly half their population, gnashed their teeth in anger, cursing the demons who were engaging in involution as the shame of the demon race.

But this trend would not stop because of anger.

Instead, it would spread through the entire Yunmeng Marsh faster than the wind, carried by the spread of information.

A migration began to unfold.

Along with the migration came fresh, hot rumors.

This martial law would not end with Zheng Zhaoling’s departure. This was only the beginning of the end.

The great martial law that the Yunze God had compromised with Zheng Zhaoling to begin would continue even after Zheng Zhaoling left.

Until Zheng Zhaoling forgot, or until Zheng Zhaoling no longer pursued it.

But how long would this period be?

What if it lasted until Zheng Zhaoling became the Sect Master of Yunmeng Pavilion, and she still remembered?

What if this wasn’t a temporary situation, but a thorough transformation?

Even if it was a temporary situation, what if it lasted a hundred years?

After a hundred years, they might still be alive. But what about those mortals?

Under such intense involution, all the mortals under their governance would flee.

Demons who had cultivated wish-power, without wish-power support and relying only on Yunmeng Marsh’s spiritual energy, would inevitably drop in realm.

Relying on wish-power for cultivation meant inevitably accepting the constraints of wish-power.

And those demons engaging in involution—although they were acting like grandchildren now, who knew that in a hundred years, their cultivation wouldn’t reverse the situation?

The most terrifying part was—Zheng Zhaoling had personally admitted that she would monitor Yunmeng Marsh’s situation for a long time.

This news spread even faster than wildfire.

As if in just one night, every demon in Yunmeng Marsh knew.

Fear and uncertainty about the future completely overwhelmed the demons who were still watching and waiting.

No one knew what would happen in the future. But right now, if they didn’t compete, people would really run away!

Being a grandson now might be preparing for not being a grandson in the future.

At this point, with fighting not an option, there was only one choice left—compete!

Compete like hell!

Three bows and five respects were completely gone. Shrines no longer needed daily renovation.

Grain tributes and incense offerings were all canceled. A hundred acres of good farmland appeared overnight.

All former shackles were shed. All freedom was in the present.

One subsidy event after another played out across Yunmeng Marsh.

The benefits at each god shrine updated daily, from giving farmland and building houses to curing diseases and eliminating disasters.

Some, pushed to desperation, wrote down conditions they couldn’t possibly fulfill without hesitation—first trick people into staying, then figure out the rest.

Under the sweeping subsidies, things became increasingly without bottom lines.

There were even cases of the gods from the shrines personally standing at village entrances, welcoming people one by one.

The only thing they hadn’t done was kneel to recruit people.

But if things continued like this, that probably wasn’t far off either.

Naturally, there were demons who united to resist this unhealthy trend.

But all united resistance couldn’t overcome rumors and the loss of practical benefits.

Under the grand trend, amid the dispersal, such united resistance was rather laughable.

In Yunmeng Marsh, in just over a month, everything had changed.

No one had expected this change—not even the Yunze God.

But under Zheng Zhaoling’s personal pressure, it couldn’t change anything.

The people’s hearts were like water, their movements like smoke.

Drifting far away, settling into homes.

——————

Huaze Village.

The current Huaze Village had undergone earth-shaking changes.

Cui Hao had not only provided welfare subsidies but also established many legal regulations based on local conditions, responsible for handling conflicts between people.

Settling people wasn’t something that could be completed with just ”you live here, your field is here.”

Many things needed to be arranged. Cui Hao had also picked a few sharp-witted people to handle these matters.

After all, if one person did everything, they would truly die from exhaustion.

Cui Hao only handled the aftermath work when something went wrong.

Inside the god shrine.

Zhu Tu looked at Cui Hao with a bitter expression:

”Envoy! Our benefits can’t attract any more people. The other demons truly have no shame left—they’re acting even more like grandchildren than grandchildren.”

”Should we add something too?”

Cui Hao sat in the main seat and shook his head gently:

”Greed bites off more than it can chew. I’ve seen their benefits too. They’re basically all bluffing—things they say but can’t deliver.”

”I also don’t believe you could deliver on blind bluffing.”

”If we truly look to the future, keeping our word is the real king’s path. With credibility, people will know our words are effective, and in the future it will attract even more people than now.”

Zhu Tu nodded repeatedly at these words.

As someone who had personally witnessed Cui Hao use these methods to turn all of Yunmeng Marsh upside down—and Cui Hao had done it just by sitting here and giving simple orders—

This was even more miraculous than a miracle.

Zhu Tu was completely convinced of Cui Hao. At this point, even if Cui Hao told him to roll around in mud to help absorb wish-power, he would believe it and roll a few extra times.

Cui Hao exhaled deeply, then said:

”By my calculation, the time is about right. You can start preparing to spread rumors about the wish-power purification effect. Blow another gust of wind, turning this from helpless involution into something that’s more beneficial for the future.”

”This way, the nature of this matter will be completely changed.”

Cui Hao didn’t continue with his inner thoughts—this way, the demons’ targeting would shift from humans to demons.

Zhu Tu nodded repeatedly in agreement.

”I didn’t expect... it was really you who did it.”

Outside the god shrine door.

Lu Lingyi looked at Cui Hao with eyes of disbelief.

A Golden Core true person had actually stirred up all of Yunmeng Marsh.

Countless great demons had fallen because of it, and the demons were in total chaos.

She couldn’t help but recall their first meeting.

Cui Hao’s self-introduction.

I am a genius.

At this moment, it was surprisingly concrete.

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