The fairy world collapsed, and the down-and-out gods were laid off and re-employed.

Even Xie Zezhi didn't understand this. The gods looked at each other in confusion, processing the information given by Li Xuchu in their minds.

Debt repayment, demonic energy, Qingqiu...how are these all connected?

"Do fairies also have gamblers?" Jiang Zhixia thought for a long time, and first asked the question she wanted to ask the most, "Looking at your appearance, why do you still have such a bad habit?"

"No, no!" The Queen replied while thinking in her mind: In the eyes of gods, gambling is more serious than collecting magic energy?

The Queen claimed that she was a half-demon and the debt came from her great-grandfather whom she had never met. He used all his descendants as collateral to borrow spiritual energy from Qingqiu in order to practice. In the end, the cultivation failed and the person died, but the debt of spiritual energy was extended to the queen's grandfather.

Her grandparents returned some, and borrowed some more because they wanted to practice, but they didn't pay them back either. In the end, all the debts and interest incurred by her parents for three lifetimes fell on the queen.

She and her nine brothers and sisters had already paid their souls to Qingqiu because they could not repay their spiritual energy debt. If she doesn't think of a way out, not only will she not be able to survive, but her daughter will also suffer.

"What are these and what?"

Jiang Zhixia and Qingqiu didn't have much contact. He had no other impression of Qingqiu except that he was a litter of foxes inspired by Nuwa, but Xie Zezhi, Ling Xuanche, and Gong Zexue knew about the spiritual energy debt that the Queen talked about.

Xie Zezhi gave Jiang Zhixia a temporary "make-up lesson" and explained that although the Qingqiu clan was granted the exception to become immortals by Nuwa, their ancestors had committed indiscriminate killings of innocent people during the Battle of the Gods. This kind of merit cannot be taken seriously, and besides, they are not disciples of the orthodox immortal family, so they become immortals and are not taken seriously by the immortal world, and they become aliens among the immortals.

After the immortals of Fengshentai were granted the title, the Emperor of Heaven specially designated a piece of southernmost land and gave it to them as a kingdom. He told them not to come to the immortal world if they had something to do, but to just practice here, which was a sign of neglect.

"Then they have an extraordinary status now. What may they have done?" Jiang Zhixia's legs were sore from standing. She found a place to sit down and patted the seat next to her to signal Miyazawa Yuki to sit down as well.

"That's right." Xie Zezhi stood beside her, but was not in a hurry to tell the answer, "What do you think he will do?"

"Me?" She thought thoughtfully: "If I am the leader of Qingqiu Kingdom and want to attract the attention of the Emperor of Heaven, then I will perform meritorious service..."

Halfway through, she denied herself: "But meritorious services are hard to come by. Besides, there are so many gods in heaven. When the emperor needs people to deal with things, he may not think of a den of foxes first. Moreover, the more diligent they are, the more counterproductive they will be. Unnecessary suspicion."

"Not bad." Xie Zezhi continued to guide her very patiently: "So what are you going to do?"

"If you can't go up, then develop downward! Expand your sphere of influence so that the Emperor of Heaven has to pay attention to Qingqiu. Moreover, these people must be people that the Immortal Realm does not want to control but they are huge in number. Control them and then show your loyalty to the Emperor of Heaven, and finally give the credit to the On the Emperor of Heaven. Then the honor and disgrace of the entire Qingqiu were tied to him.

The move is risky, but not too much. Because these people are 'useless', no matter how Qingqiu is, no other immortal family will take over. Rather than leaving them in chaos, the Emperor of Heaven might as well directly recognize Qingqiu's status. During the Chinese New Year, go to the Heavenly Palace with the Lord of Qingqiu to praise him, talk, sit together and have something to eat. There is no loss in the fairy world but there are benefits, so why not do this. "

At this point, she suddenly realized, "Is this why Qingqiu is now the Lord of Demons? I thought it was the request of Empress Nuwa."

"Yes." Xie Zezhi nodded with a smile. Jiang Zhixia was a little proud after receiving the affirmation.

This usually casual interaction between the two seemed extremely dazzling in the eyes of Ling Xuanche and Li Xuchu. Xie Zezhi seemed to have noticed their emotions and glanced at them, feeling a bit proud of the "main palace".

Miyazawa Snow sighed inwardly: There are more scenes between three men than three women.

Jiang Zhixia understood the cause and figured out what happened next. Qingqiu wants to expand its sphere of influence, and the people it chooses must only listen to themselves; they must also ensure that they are only loyal to themselves, and no one will help them if they leave Qingqiu.

The only animals that meet these conditions are those animal monsters that have already transformed into humans and want to continue practicing to become immortals.

There are differences in the cultivation of animals and humans. Their road to becoming immortals is several times more difficult than that of humans. They must first transform into human forms for hundreds of years before they can cultivate and become immortals.

But these monsters have no one to teach them how to absorb and utilize spiritual energy, so they can only explore on their own. Some people who never get the trick will "cut corners" and practice by sucking the souls of mortals or harvesting yang and replenishing yin, and do things that are harmful to nature. If you do this, let alone become an immortal, it will be difficult to survive.

Monsters who choose to follow the right path of cultivation will also face countless hardships. They have no gods to protect them, no people to worship them, and if they are not careful, they will be chopped into ashes by thunder. In addition, there are countless monster hunters in the mortal world who want to take their lives. Crossing the tribulation is an insurmountable gap.

Qingqiu discovered this situation and reached out to these monsters. They provide those demons who have transformed with abundant spiritual energy, guide them to become immortals quickly, and rely on Qingqiu's special geographical location to help them easily survive the thunder tribulation.

After becoming immortals, those monsters will rely more on Qingqiu. Because they were of humble origin, their status as immortals was not high. In order not to be bullied by others, Qingqiu is naturally their only choice.

Of course, in addition to this reason, they did not cut off their relationship with Qingqiu because they owed Qingqiu a debt.

Those foxes didn't know how to make a loss-making "business", and the spiritual energy given to these monsters at that time was all "borrowed". After they become immortals, they have to return three times the spiritual energy they used, and there will be additional interest for the delay.

This "business" was not profitable, but when they thought of becoming immortals, the monsters couldn't care less.

There may be monsters among them who are unable to become immortals or return their aura after halfway through their training. Qingqiu will take away their originally pledged souls. But then these monsters thought of a way to benefit themselves, which was to use the souls of their descendants as collateral.

It would be best if he could become an immortal; if he could not become an immortal, he would have no loss. After all, you can have countless children, but you only have one.

"As long as the souls of people who are related to the debtor by blood can be used as collateral, these monsters will reproduce in large numbers to hand over their souls in case they can't repay the debt." Xie Zeshang touched Jiang Zhixia with his hand. With frowning eyebrows, he sighed: "Half-demon is the product of their weighing the pros and cons."

"why?"

"Because mortals are easier to coax than others of their kind."

The monsters found out from the stories written by mortals that they were often indulged in the dreams of "scholars" and "fairies". Mortals like them like to get something for nothing.

Poor scholars who are completely destitute will always be favored by beautiful fairies. When they see them, they will ignore anything. Even if they defy the rules of nature, they will stay to wash, cook and give birth to children. Even the goblin is a woman who comes to repay their kindness and help them achieve fame.

A kind-hearted but bullied peasant girl can always pick up an injured male god or dignitary in the ravine, and finally become a noble person.

The monsters capture their mentality and transform themselves into handsome men or beautiful women. With a little magic, they can coax mortals to be gentle with them and leave offspring. After the child is born, they will take these half-demon to register with Qingqiu and become victims of debt repayment at any time.

"Does the Emperor of Heaven not care?" Jiang Zhixia was puzzled.

Ling Xuanche interjected: "The thing was done by monsters and has nothing to do with Qingqiu. The Emperor of Heaven knew that he could only capture the monsters who committed the crime, but before that Qingqiu had already taken action to capture the monsters and presented them to the Emperor of Heaven to express his loyalty. "

"But they borrow spiritual energy..."

"The Lord of Qingqiu said it was to teach them to be good. The demon world did disappear a lot after Qingqiu intervened. At that time, the spiritual energy was abundant, and both sides had written pledges. One was willing to fight, the other was willing to suffer. There was a written pledge, and the Emperor of Heaven could not say anything. ." He said: "Not only that, in the subsequent battles between immortals and demons, Qingqiu led the demon world to make great achievements, but claimed to the outside world that the Emperor of Heaven commanded him properly and did not take any of his own credit. After obtaining this immortal family, the Emperor of Heaven also What’s the objection?”

It can be said that the status of the foxes in Qingqiu depends partly on their ancestors and partly on the demon world.

After the sudden change in the world, the immortal world was on the decline, but Qingqiu relied on borrowing debts and harvesting souls to stabilize the momentum, and the spiritual energy in the country increased instead of decreasing. Now it seems that it wants to break away from the control of the fairy world and become a third force independent of the fairy and demon families.

"There is someone who can take advantage of the loopholes better than me!" Jiang Zhixia muttered with her chin in her hands. After sighing, she asked the queen: "What's the matter with that demonic energy?"

"This villain doesn't know. They only said that if they don't have the spiritual energy to repay the debt, then they can absorb the demonic energy. We are just debtors and do what we are told. They will not tell us if they have anything to do with the demon world.

The villain also wants to collect spiritual energy, but it is too slow to extract spiritual energy from incense. The villain's lifespan is not that long and if the spirit energy is not delivered when the time comes, the soul will be taken away by them. However, the villain swears that the villain is just inducing the jealousy of mortals to obtain demonic energy, and has no intention of killing anyone. "

"You suck the blood from people's brows and make wine, so you don't hurt them?"

The Queen looked at Li Xuchu and said aggrievedly: "The wine was taught to me by the Imperial Master. It won't harm people's lives, it just makes them depressed, but they can recover after a few days of rest. He also didn't let me drink two wines from the same person. Times. It was what he taught me to do to induce jealousy in others without harming their lives. Otherwise he would...accept me."

The Queen says half-demon are different from monsters. Their magic power is not high, their lifespan is only a few decades longer than that of ordinary people, and their spiritual energy cultivation is more laborious than ordinary monsters. Therefore, most of them have reached the end of their life before they have repaid their debts. After death, their souls do not enter the underworld but go to Qingqiu.

When Li Xu first came to Cuiwu Country, he met the Queen who wanted to absorb other people's souls to extend her life. He originally wanted to take her in, but after hearing about her, he sympathized with her plight and seeing that she had never harmed anyone before, he helped her think of a way to extend her life that would not hurt anyone. method.

"The villain is not extending his life to become an immortal. He just wants to pay off all the debts he owes so that my daughter can live her life easily." She said sadly: "In the future, even if you die, you will not cultivate to become an immortal. Just rely on mortals Living peacefully with your identity is better than anything else.”