Sect Recruitment: I Can See Attribute Entries

Chapter 677: Chapter 678: Good Money Drives Out Bad

Zheng Zhaoling was looking outside, but hearing these words, she subconsciously turned her head and looked at Cui Hao.

She saw only Cui Hao’s intensely passionate gaze directed at her. Within his eyes seemed to lie a strand of inexplicable light.

It wasn’t that there was truly a beam of light. Rather, the emotion contained in his eyes conveyed itself like light at a single glance, revealing his inner thoughts and resolve.

”Fellow Daoist, no matter what our identities are right now, or whose interests we represent, we are ultimately human. We should all fight for a visible future for the humans here.” Cui Hao reached out, his tone exceptionally sincere. ”Because we both have passion and conscience in our hearts, I hope to join hands with you to face this difficulty.”

Zheng Zhaoling sighed lightly:

”I must be somewhat abnormal.”

Cui Hao was stunned. ”What do you mean, Fellow Daoist?”

”Although I know there are problems, after hearing your words...” Zheng Zhaoling also reached out and lightly patted Cui Hao’s hand. ”...I still want to help you once.”

Cui Hao smiled carefree. ”Whenever we encounter a problem, we solve it. People like us—how could we shrink back just because it’s difficult?”

Zheng Zhaoling smiled and shook her head slightly. ”I can only say you’re a strange person. Coincidentally, I’m a bit strange too. But I have my own matters to attend to, so I may not always be around.”

”Understood.” Cui Hao nodded lightly. ”It’s already extremely kind of you to come. I’m not someone who doesn’t read the room. I understand the principle that you must take care of yourself first before you can help others.”

”I will do my best to handle things here. If there are any oversights, please correct me, Fellow Daoist.”

Hearing these words, Zheng Zhaoling’s favorable impression of Cui Hao increased considerably.

No matter what, the person before her was at least someone who reasoned and understood right from wrong.

Zheng Zhaoling looked at Cui Hao and asked:

”Tell me more about your policy of ’present as if absent.’”

Cui Hao nodded gently. ”The demons here exploit faith. Three offerings and five invitations daily is the baseline. More would prefer everyone to be offering wish-power every moment.”

”They say they’re inviting gods to protect, but in reality they free-range them. They don’t care about major disasters or life and death. They’re the type who take money but don’t work.”

”Each village is sealed off with no communication. Over time, everything seems like this is how it should be. Add in the demons’ violent rampaging, and naturally there’s no resistance—and no power to resist.”

”But we’ve started something different. We’ve given the villagers a different hope, allowing them to grasp the path they should walk.”

”Just as having seen the light, who would look forward to the coming of darkness?”

”When you’ve personally experienced the ability to live a better life, who would long to continue merely surviving?”

”To change everything, it’s not about killing some demon or setting some rules.”

”It’s about making these truths visible to them in the simplest way, letting them experience it personally.”

”Without this, everything is empty talk. Everything will return to how it was.”

Zheng Zhaoling nodded in agreement at these words, then asked:

”But Yunmeng Marsh’s current situation probably won’t change easily. Expecting Yunmeng Marsh to purge the demons here is not easy. Forcing a collision is definitely not a good thing.”

Cui Hao didn’t answer this question. Instead, he turned, raised his hand, and used spiritual energy to draw out a wisp of wish-power stored within the god statue.

A wisp of slightly turbid mysterious yellow qi gathered in Cui Hao’s hand. Then he pushed it toward Zheng Zhaoling.

Zheng Zhaoling reached out and took it, then discovered the difference within it.

Although this wisp of wish-power Cui Hao handed her was somewhat turbid, compared to the wish-power from other villages, it was absurdly pure.

”I understand that human power has limits. We can’t pursue perfection in everything. Mutual destruction can only be a last resort, not the final method. There must be some compromise.”

Cui Hao’s expression was sincere. ”Only after confirming this did I execute my plan. The demons here exploit wish-power merely to compensate for insufficient spiritual energy.”