Chapter 1296 - 1396: Let Me Give It a Try

After all, humans are a very unique kind of creature.

As for other creatures, no matter what their way of thinking might eventually become, for now, judging by human standards of thought, it is the most top-tier kind of thinking. This is not praising humans themselves, but because human thought allows humans to create all kinds of civilizations, whereas those Demon Beasts and creatures beyond the Wall, their history far surpasses that of humans.

Yet they have not created any history of real value; on the contrary, the history they create is at most personal history, not the history of a race.

But the history created by humans is different, because the history that humans create is racial history, meaning that the history humans create is based on everything as a whole.

And the history humans are able to create is not something achieved overnight. Of course, this "overnight" is indeed a short time from the perspective of those Demon Beasts, since their history is much longer than that of humans.

If one looks purely at development, human development is almost invincible; no other creature's growth can match the speed of human development.

Judging from the course of human development itself, if you give them this much time, it becomes very easy for them to surpass everything else.

Although human progress has indeed been slowing down, it is undeniable that human development is still faster than that of those creatures beyond the Wall or Demon Beasts.

And going by the development of these Demon Beasts, even after another million years, they still would not be able to develop to the same level as humans.

In building alone, those Demon Beasts can in no way compare with humans, not to mention the four basic aspects of clothing, food, housing, and travel.

Moreover, it's not just these four trades; in every field, humans have people who push it to the extreme of their era.

And the way humans develop is that when a given field has been pushed to its extreme and can no longer be advanced, they turn to develop other directions. Once those other directions catch up, they return again to that field which had once been pushed to the limit.

At that point, people discover that this field, which had previously been judged to have reached its limit, can, once other fields have been developed, be very easily advanced once more.

This is the origin of the so‑called "mutual reinforcement," and no matter what the field, it can continually make up for its own shortcomings during the development of other fields.

This is why human development keeps getting better and better, and just from the perspective of development alone, they can overtake everything else.

But those Demon Beasts are different; they have no capacity for development. They only single‑mindedly raise their own strength or that of their group.

Their creed is that as long as they don't starve and can increase their power, everything else is mere illusion. And these Demon Beasts absolutely live by this: everything else is illusion; they concentrate on one thing only—improving their own strength.

It is precisely because of this that the development of Demon Beasts has always fallen short of that of humans. The key reason is that Demon Beasts do not possess human ways of thinking, so they have no development at all.

In fact, given the speed of human progress, if they had developed technology, they would already have broken through the atmosphere and flown into the universe. But this world is a peculiar one; its value system lies in cultivation rather than technology, and technology is still stuck in the agrarian age.

So this means that although the driving force for development is abundant, by focusing solely on cultivation while neglecting technological development, this world has lost many opportunities to accelerate its growth.

For example, if biology were developed and they studied how Spiritual Power exists in the air, they might figure out exactly how those with poor innate aptitude differ, why their aptitude is inferior, and how it differs from that of geniuses.

However, none of that matters at the moment; the most pressing issue is still the mantis‑like creature beyond the Wall in front of them.

And Real Person Taichu had already made his preparations: once he further restricted this mantis‑like creature's mobility, he would then figure out a way to destroy this mantis‑like creature's two scythe‑like pincers. At that point, this mantis‑like creature would become a living target, one to be slaughtered at will, with no ability to resist at all.

Real Person Taichu was also certain that Ye Tianfan would absolutely be able to restrict this mantis‑like creature's technique of inhaling and exhaling Demonic Qi, Evil Qi, and other negative auras.

After all, in this place only Ye Tianfan's Chaos Treasure Lotus, with its unique energy‑conversion ability, could restrain this mantis‑like creature; no one else had any way to deal with Demonic Qi, Evil Qi, and other negative auras.

Even using pure Spiritual Power, there was no effective way to limit this creature beyond the Wall from inhaling and exhaling Demonic Qi, Evil Qi, and other negative auras.

Given the current situation, Real Person Taichu and the others practically had a guaranteed victory, but they could not rule out any other factors. After all, if they wanted a truly certain win, they still needed to cut down every threat in the bud; only then could they truly achieve a guaranteed victory.

Right at this moment, the mantis‑like creature beyond the Wall moved. Because it had just seen that its Sword Qi had no way to inflict any meaningful damage on Real Person Taichu, it directly resorted to close‑quarters attacks, charging straight at Real Person Taichu and chopping down hard at him with the two pincers in its hands.

When Real Person Taichu saw the mantis‑like creature's movement, his eyes suddenly lit up, because he had already spotted an excellent opportunity.

Right now, as this mantis‑like creature beyond the Wall rushed over, Real Person Taichu, in that instant, stepped with a sudden misstep, advancing instead of retreating, and charged toward the mantis‑like creature.

The mantis‑like creature beyond the Wall saw Real Person Taichu charging toward it and was stunned for a moment, then immediately revealed a bloodthirsty grin and hacked down fiercely at Real Person Taichu with its pincers.

As the pincer slashed toward him, Real Person Taichu executed a misstep in midair to dodge this strike, then took the opportunity to lightly raise his right hand and send the Xiaoyao Sword straight into the right arm joint of the mantis‑like creature beyond the Wall.

But because this mantis‑like creature beyond the Wall moved so fast, just as Real Person Taichu had thrust the Xiaoyao Sword into the creature's joint—

Before Real Person Taichu could exert force, the mantis‑like creature had already swept past.

This caused the Xiaoyao Sword to get stuck right at the joint of the mantis‑like creature beyond the Wall and then be dragged along as it slid past.