Most of a person's actions are driven by various desires.
Eating could be said to be one of the most important instinctive desires of the human body. It was a prerequisite for survival. Many people's actions were driven by eating, and they acted for the sake of eating.
As for cultivating Taoist techniques, the pursuit of Tendo, and even the desire for power and knowledge, these were the most important motivations for cultivators.
It could be said that most of the things that humans and cultivators did, apart from some non-desire emotions such as responsibility and dreams, mainly came from their own desires.
When their desires for eating and power were wiped out by Zhou Bai, whether it was Yan Shan or Meng Ruocun, it was as if they had suddenly lost their life goals. Their entire bodies emitted a lazy aura from the inside out.
Yan Shan suddenly lay down on the back of the chair and thought to himself, "Sigh, a peerless genius like Zhou Bai's cultivation for a few days might be equivalent to my cultivation for a few years. And I actually had the delusion that I could beat him. What nonsense am I thinking?"
Having suddenly lost the two main motivations for eating and cultivating, Yan Shan suddenly felt bored. He only thought to himself, "No matter how I think about it, women are still more interesting. Why don't I go back to Central City and find a woman to have children with?"
He suddenly turned his head, "This Meng Ruocun seems to be not bad."
He … was suddenly diverted by other desires.
On the other side, Meng Ruocun had relied on her talent to climb up step by step from the bottom. Most of her desires were for eating and for power. Suddenly losing these desires, she only felt that life was meaningless.
"A casual meal that Zhou Bai eats every day is enough for me to squander for ten days to half a month." Meng Ruocun sighed in her heart, "I've tried my best to climb up and train hard, but I can't compare to his casual cultivation for a few days. Compared to him, I'm simply a lump of mud."
"Then what's the point of everything I'm doing now?"
Meng Ruocun directly laid her head on the table, her entire person sinking into a state of lifeless salted fish.
Seeing the situation of the two, Zhou Bai gradually understood in his heart, "It seems that food and power are indeed the main desires of most people. Once these two main desires are removed, people will become salted fish. But … "
Zhou Bai looked at Qiu Xingze. Unlike Yan Shan and Meng Ruocun, although Qiu Xingze's eyes showed a hint of exhaustion, he did not feel that life was boring. This was because his life was not only filled with desires, but also responsibilities and ideals.
Qiu Xingze glanced at Zhou Bai and let out a sigh in his heart, "Compared to a Peerless Genius like Zhou Bai, I'm like a toad lying on the ground. I won't stand a chance against him no matter how long I cultivate."
However, in the next moment, a new fighting spirit flashed in his eyes. "In the future, I'll focus my work on the Plague Department's project and Gu Letian's matter. Especially this time, Gu Letian's matter is too dangerous. I must capture him."
Qiu Xingze stared at Zhou Bai and said, "Zhou Bai, can you tell us how you met Gu Letian and how you started doing business with him? Please tell us everything you know about him."
Zhou Bai looked at the three people before him. He could clearly see the changes in them. Combining it with his understanding of Covetousness, he made a judgment in his heart.
'After erasing some desires, everyone's reaction is different. It all depends on their original personality and worldview. ' Seeing this, Zhou Bai felt that it was interesting. It was as if he was casually toying with people's hearts.
'In the past, I used the Calamity of Poverty and the Calamity of Stupidity very crudely.
'If I add the ability of Covetousness, I can control people's hearts even more subtly. Although the duration of each ability is limited, it's enough to change a person's thinking unknowingly.
'And if I continue like before, using them together in a simple and crude manner to erase other desires, what will happen? Will I become a salted fish? Or will I have an even more extreme reaction? '
Zhou Bai wanted to test out the ability of Covetousness. He was curious what would happen if Covetousness continued to erase other desires. However, it was not suitable for him to use Zhou Bai's identity for the following experiments.
'Hmm … I'll have to change my original plan. The effect of Covetousness is more useful than I thought.'
Previously, after Zhou Bai had completed his last vote in West Peak City, he had already made preparations. He had come up with some plans for the investigators that the Celestial Court might send to clear his name.
However, he had activated the ability of Covetousness today. Moreover, he felt that the experiment was going well. This gave Zhou Bai a lot of inspiration and curiosity.
Therefore, he had made a last-minute decision to slightly change his original plan.
Therefore, when he heard Qiu Xingze's question, Zhou Bai fell silent. A hint of fear flashed in his eyes, and he said, as if he could not bear to look back, "Let bygones be bygones. I'll just treat it as throwing my points into the water. You guys don't have to investigate anymore. You won't be able to get anything out of it."
Seeing Zhou Bai's frightened expression as a victim, Qiu Xingze immediately felt that there was hope. He hurriedly said, "Don't worry, Zhou Bai. The investigation this time is led by the Plague Division. The Plague Division's Righteous God, Luo Zhenjun, is in charge. The power mobilized is far greater than before. No matter how powerful this Gu Letian is, can he go against the Celestial Court?"
Under Qiu Xingze's consolation, Zhou Bai gradually mustered up his courage and told the story of how he met Gu Letian.
"The first time I saw him was in a dream." A hint of palpitation and hesitation appeared on Zhou Bai's face. Like a scared child, he said intermittently, "I dreamed of him."
Qiu Xingze said in surprise, "It was in a dream?"
Zhou Bai said in pain, "He whispered to me in my dream, spreading evil and forbidden knowledge to me. He also kept asking me to see him."
Qiu Xingze asked, "What does evil and forbidden knowledge mean?"
Zhou Bai said, "It's the knowledge about investment, wealth, and financial management. At first, I felt like I had found a treasure. Later, I realized that they were part of some evil ritual. "
Qiu Xingze recalled what happened to those divine seeds. Some of them were crazy. He nodded in agreement and took out a pen and paper to record. "Do you still use this knowledge now?"
"No!" Zhou Bai said, "What I hate the most now is those damn points. I don't want to touch them anymore!"
Qiu Xingze recorded that the subject was very sensitive and resistant to points.
Qiu Xingze asked, "Then do you know why you can dream of him?"
Zhou Bai's eyes flashed with a trace of absent-mindedness. "It's because of a book. I picked up a book on the way to school." He suddenly looked at Qiu Xingze. "After reading that book that day, I dreamed of him at night."
"A book?" Qiu Xingze's eyes showed a trace of excitement. He felt that he had finally found an important clue. This trip to Dong Hua City was really worth it.
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