When system cheat becomes rampant!

"Do you think I'm a child?" Xiang Beifei asked, rubbing his forehead.

"Coming to Edge Corner Airspace without doing your homework, casually telling a stranger you're from the Human Race, who else but a child would be so reckless?" He Qing said.

Xiang Beifei: "..."

For a moment, he was rendered speechless!

Truth be told, he did want to do his homework! But the problem was, no one over there even understood the situation in Edge Corner Airspace, so how could he do his homework?

"Fine then, call me a child." Xiang Beifei said helplessly.

Compared to a five hundred-year-old maiden, he indeed is a child.

"Then, should I call you Granny?"

"Call me Sister!" He Qing said through clenched teeth.

"But you're over five hundred years old..."

"Over five hundred years is very young!" He Qing raised her voice.

"In our place, being over five hundred years old means..."

"We're still very young at five hundred!"

He Qing said emphatically, while a challenging look flickered in her eyes.

"Oh."

The atmosphere was a bit quiet, and it remained so for a full minute.

"Five hundred years is really young!"

Perhaps worried that Xiang Beifei wouldn't believe her, she reiterated this point, emphasizing the word "really."

"I didn't say it wasn't." Xiang Beifei said.

"..."

He Qing was taken aback, looking somewhat frustrated.

How can this guy be so exasperating?

— No, he's just an ungrateful brat, stay calm! Bratty kids are bound to be infuriating!

He Qing consoled herself internally, reminding herself not to stoop to a child's level; after all, she had cultivated for five hundred years, and this steadiness of mind must not be broken by a mere brat.

Moreover, where does her appearance even remotely look like a five hundred-year-old granny? Obviously, she's like a young lady of eighteen or nineteen, isn't she?

These blind fellows really deserve a punishment!

She took a deep breath, shot Xiang Beifei a sideways glance, folding her arms in front of her, and fell silent.

Xiang Beifei also remained silent, leisurely sitting on the ground, looking into the distance.

The two continued their silence for another quarter of an hour.

"Have you heard of Wufeng?"

He Qing was the first to break the silence.

"Haven't heard of him."

"Your Human Race has such a powerful and terrifying expert, and yet you've never heard of him?"

"Yes, I also feel quite regretful for not knowing about such a person." Xiang Beifei said nonchalantly.

"Very few of your Human Race have gone to the Edge Corner Airspace, so that means your influence over there must be strong, right?" He Qing was genuinely curious about the Human Race.

"Honestly speaking, not really."

This is something Xiang Beifei had found puzzling all along.

For thousands of years, other races have developed well here, even the crane race has more than ten Immortal Realm experts, so why does the Human Race have so few?

Three thousand years ago, Hanxia had only Daoist Qingyang, and in these three thousand years, Jiuzhou only had Daoist Qingde.

And both of them ended up with mishaps.

Why are there so few experts from the Human Race in the Immortal Realm?

"Besides Wufeng from thirty years ago, are there no other humans in Edge Corner Airspace?" Xiang Beifei asked.

"I believe there are definitely humans in Edge Corner Airspace; however, due to Wufeng, the Dao Palace issued a bounty on the Human Race, so many human experts should be hiding and won't emerge. But those genuine human experts tend to cause big disturbances whenever they appear," He Qing said.

"Humans always cause disturbances?"

"Yes, typically every few hundred years, a human expert appears, causing various commotions, challenging the Dao Palace's authority, framing and killing other races, committing all sorts of evil. They're unwelcomed, but they soon get suppressed. The Common Valley chaos was likely the greatest disturbance in nearly ten thousand years."

He Qing turned her head, glanced at Xiang Beifei: "I hope you won't become such a person in the future. You're still young, young and teachable. So you must learn to interact friendly with others, don't casually slaughter other races, and definitely don't confront the Dao Palace, otherwise you'll be hunted by many."

Xiang Beifei suddenly laughed.

"What are you laughing about?"

"I just find it strange. You harbor hostility towards our Human Race, yet when you speak, you constantly use some of our human-specific pronouns. For example, 'interact friendly with humans,' 'many people,' 'contact person,' 'stranger,' 'we'll send someone'... It's as if you guys are the human race, and we, as the actual 'humans,' are being excluded instead. What does this count as? The guest usurping the host? A cuckoo in the nest?" Xiang Beifei said.

He Qing frowned slightly, then spoke:

"We don't believe 'human' is exclusive to you. 'Human' as a definition isn't a specific reference to one race, but rather a form of cultivation! All races eventually in their cultivation will become human.

Because the form of a human is the most suited for cultivating the Heavenly Dao.

In our view, the Human Race is merely fortunate enough to inherently be 'human' without needing cultivation, but that doesn't mean other races are not human.

Whether it's crane race humans, Tiger Race humans, Shadow Race humans, Wing Race humans... As long as they continue to cultivate, they can reach the final form of 'human,' hence, we are also 'human,' so there's nothing wrong when I say 'someone,' 'many people.'

He Qing's definition of 'human' is evidently different from Xiang Beifei's.

She paused, then continued:

"You can think of 'human' as a realm. Just like the Immortal Realm, some people take countless years to reach it, yet you only need twenty-three years to achieve Immortal. But you can't say, just because you reached Immortal first, that you don't allow later cultivating Daoists to call themselves 'Immortal Realm experts,' nor can you say the term 'Immortal Realm' is your exclusive pronoun.' 'Human' as a definition is the same."