Chapter 144 Demon Theory

"It seems that you have gained a lot during this period of time. This is the first time I have seen Yu Mian treat someone like this!"

Dean Xiao looked at Xu Fan in front of him, with a hint of surprise in his eyes.

"I can't help it. Although I want to keep a low profile, there will always be people who can see through gold!"

Xu Fan smiled. He also felt the abnormality in Ding Yumian's attitude. When she looked at him, her eyes were indeed a little scary, but not like the look in Tang Yue's eyes when they met after a long time, which seemed to want to eat him up. It was more like eating him in another physical sense.

Thinking back to the first time he met Ding Yumian, she subconsciously said that she smelled so good. Xu Fan even suspected that Ding Yumian was a wild ghoul.

"Your spiritual power has increased too much in a short period of time, so in the eyes of people with a slightly higher spiritual realm, you are as dazzling as a firefly in the dark night!"

Dean Xiao smiled. If he didn't know Xu Fan very well, he would have suspected that Xu Fan was another victim. With this speed of growth of mental power, Dean Xiao even had the illusion that Xu Fan would be able to break through the forbidden spell of the mind in a few years.

"Uh, why can't it be the bright moon in the dark night?"

Xu Fan asked subconsciously. He actually had some understanding that his control over his mental power was indeed problematic, and it was normal for it to be released unconsciously.

"Haha, with such a beautiful sight before you, you can only be a firefly! Mingyue, didn't you just see it?"

Dean Xiao chuckled and attacked him bluntly, but there was no disparagement of Xu Fan in his words.

As an ordinary mage without psychic, curse, and space powers, comparing mental power with the victims of psychic powers is actually a great victory!

"Well, how far do I have to go before I can reach Mingyue?"

Xu Fan thought of Ding Yumian. The other party was able to use mental communication freely, but he could only accept it passively. This shows how terrifying Ding Yumian's mental power attainments are.

"You are probably in the fifth realm now, which is still the second major realm. When your spiritual realm reaches the third major realm, you will be able to be compared with Ding Yumian now!"

Dean Xiao nodded slightly. What Ding Yumian revealed at this moment was only a very small part of herself, otherwise her identity as the victim would have been revealed long ago.

"The seventh realm! I'm afraid it will take a thousand years to cultivate!"

Xu Fan took a look at his pitiful 300 years of cultivation and couldn't help but sigh secretly. Comrade, you still need to work hard!
"But you don't have to be too depressed. The best way is to increase both your mental strength and your cultivation equally. If one is too strong, the other will be too weak. A broken balance will only bring disaster!"

Dean Xiao suddenly felt a little emotional. Although Ding Yumian looked like the school belle of Mingzhu Academy, she was not as glamorous as she seemed in private. This trip to help Xu Fan was her first time out of the Magic City.

"You have countless secrets, but you have a good heart, otherwise you would have been taken away by the water meter inspector long ago!"

Dean Xiao turned his attention to Xu Fan again. The first time Xu Fan came into the sight of the top management was when he was the priest who dug out the cardinal. At that time, he was only regarded as a potential seed because he defeated the strong with the weak.

However, after the Bo City incident broke out, Xu Fan was completely remembered by the top management. Until now, most of the top management have been very indulgent towards Xu Fan. As long as Xu Fan did not do anything that would enrage God and people, even if Xu Fan's strength grew faster, the top management would only continue to pay attention to him and would not rashly interfere with his growth.

"Don't worry, I am a five-good youth of the new era who was born under the red flag and grew up in the spring breeze!"

Xu Fan smiled awkwardly. If his cultivation had not made such a rapid progress, he could have hidden for a while longer. However, his cultivation had directly pushed his spiritual realm to the fifth realm, so he could no longer hide.

"Pay more attention in the future, maybe you will be the leader of the new generation!"

Dean Xiao smiled and threw a jade pendant to Xu Fan, who quickly stretched out his hand to catch it. However, as soon as he got it, his face changed. This jade pendant was much heavier than it looked. An ordinary jade pendant weighed only about 100 grams, but Xu Fan felt that this jade pendant weighed several hundred kilograms.

It was certainly not a difficult task for Xu Fan to pick up the jade pendant with his physique, but there was a strange energy on the jade pendant that was oppressing Xu Fan's mental strength.

"I'll leave this thing with you first!"

Dean Xiao smiled and said, although Xu Fan borrowed Ding Yumian to implement his own plan, it was also a good thing for Ding Yumian to gain a favor from the military.

Dean Xiao still has to give Xu Fan some reward for his contribution.

Just as Ding Yumian mentioned that Xu Fan's mental power was over-expanded, Dean Xiao conveniently lent this jade pendant that could temper his mental power to Xu Fan for a period of time.

"Hehe, thank you Dean Xiao!"

Xu Fan was overjoyed and stuffed the jade pendant directly into his pocket. With the jade pendant, he felt as if his soul was carrying a huge rock on its back. In just a moment, Xu Fan felt that his mental strength had become much more solid.

At this time, Xu Fan did not check his game system, otherwise he would have discovered that his level had started to increase again. Although only the single digits of the number of days were increasing, it could not be stopped by perseverance.

"What do you think...what do you think demons are?"

Dean Xiao suddenly looked a little serious and asked Xu Fan, and Xu Fan's attitude also became serious.

"Are you asking about the black snake?"

A thought flashed through Xu Fan’s mind.

"The demon should refer to the evildoer!"

After careful consideration, Xu Fan said that in his opinion, the black snake could not be defined as a demon, just like the demons in his Journey to the West, those that harmed people were demons.

"Oh? What if it's the monsters in the wild that have never set foot in the Anjie?"

Dean Xiao smiled. He was very interested in Xu Fan's response.

"They are also demons! It's not that they don't want to harm humans, it's just that they have never encountered humans so there is no chance to harm humans. If they have the chance, they will definitely attack humans directly!"

"Of course there are relatives too. What we can do is to carefully identify them, eliminate those that are harmful, and try to coexist peacefully with those that are harmless to our relatives!"

Xu Fan said slowly that creatures like the black snake cannot be killed completely, but creatures like the devil tree that are good at camouflage must be eradicated as soon as possible.

"So, what if it must rely on humans to exist but is full of hostility towards humans?"

Dean Xiao said, Xu Fan suddenly raised his head and looked straight into Dean Xiao's eyes. Dean Xiao's eyes were extremely deep, like a pool of deep water with no end in sight.

"This question is too profound. I'm afraid I can't understand it. What I can understand is what I see. Life is not a game. Just adapt to the situation!"

Xu Fan smiled and suddenly remembered his speculation about some demon kings. If the demons attacked humans with all their strength, they would definitely be able to exterminate humans, but they did not do so at all. It was like they were breeding.

(End of this chapter)