The verdict against Jin Tuyi, the commander of the Coalition Army of Demons, and the way to punish him, raised heated discussions in every sector of the Federation.
From the representatives, ministers, and leaders of the major sects to the common folks on the street, all the citizens of the federation were considering in their own way how they should draw an end to the war between human beings and demons that was more or less satisfactory to everyone.
Li Yao, the hero of the Special Federation, expressed his opinion on the forums and the media, too. After finishing his speech, he continued. "According to the brain specialists, in the last phase of cerebral sclerosis, even the nerve endings will be frozen. Other than the basic reactions such as heartbeat and breathing that are under the control of the brain stem, the victim might not even be able to feel pain.
"It means that even if Jin Tuyi is minced right now, he will not feel the slightest pain. Instead, he will be able to escape the real punishment forever with his death!
"Therefore, I believe that Jin Tuyi should not be punished right now. Instead, his body and his brain should be preserved in a certain way until the day when he is truly punished!
"With the integration of the Heaven's Origin Sector, the Flying Star Sector, and the Blood Demon Sector, all kinds of technologies, especially those that involve the brain nerves, are making new breakthroughs every day. I believe that there will be treatments for cerebral sclerosis, which is considered an incurable disease right now, in the near future, too!
"Also, according to the information that I just learned, we have made an explosive breakthrough in the field of 'human hibernation'. We have grasped the ability to freeze the human body at super low temperatures, which allows us to preserve a person in the river of time as they are for at least a hundred years.
"Then, let Jin Tuyi, the commander of the Coalition Army of Demons, be the first person to receive the human hibernation. Let him hibernate until the age when 'cerebral sclerosis' can be cured. After his disease is cured and his consciousness is restored, he will be given the real sentence. He will be sentenced to death and minced into pieces. He will taste all the pain without missing anything!
"In my opinion, this is the real trial. This is the punishment that a war murderer such as Jin Tuyi deserves!
"Of course, the technology of 'human hibernation' is not mature yet, and various problems may arise. But the worst-case scenario is that Jin Tuyi will be sentenced to death.
"I don't see anything inappropriate about it!"
Li Yao's speech raised an uproar in every sector of the society. After the initial shock, everybody had to admit that he did have a point.
Jin Tuyi right now was essentially a vegetative person who could walk on his own and defecate all over the floor.
To compete with a vegetable, even if he was scolded, tortured, or cut into pieces, he would not feel the slightest bit of pain — whether it was physical or psychological.
Because of cerebral sclerosis, Jin Tuyi's soul had been deeply sealed at the bottom of his brain. With the current technology of the Federation, it was impossible to extract his soul with 'soul-searching'.
Basically, there was nothing the Federation could do about him except to execute him directly.
In many cases, death was not a punishment but a relief. As the saying went, 'all troubles end once and for all'!
Even when the common folk were angry, they would often say, "You'll die a horrible death."
It meant that as long as there was a 'good death', it was sometimes not a bad choice.
If Jin Tuyi, who was still in a daze, was killed just like that, it would indeed be a 'good death' and 'all troubles end once and for all', not a real punishment.
It was obviously in contradiction with the purpose of establishing the war court.
After a month of lengthy discussions, the nine special officers finally made a final verdict. Jin Tuyi, a super-level war criminal, was found guilty on all charges. However, considering his special circumstances, the death penalty would not be executed for now. Instead, he would be put into the 'hibernation state' with the 'cryogenic quick-freezing' technology until he was capable of treating cerebral sclerosis. He would not be thawed, treated, or executed.
The trial seemed redundant, but it concerned the dignity of the Federation and the solemnity of the law. It was a very necessary action.
All the sectors of society were quite satisfied with the result of the verdict, too.
It was especially so after the general public saw Jin Tuyi chuckling like an idiot in the live stream of the trial and trying to pee at the police officers. Everybody believed that executing such an idiot was definitely not the best way to end the war but a great joke.
The Blood Demon Sector had no objection to the verdict. The leadership of the Pantheon of Demons, including Jin Tuyi's daughter, Jin Xinyue, were all in favor of 'human hibernation' for Jin Tuyi and postponing his death penalty.
At this point, the war trial had finally come to an end. Although it was not a full stop, it was a long pause.
Also, the trial of all the members of the Patriots Partnership that had been carried out earlier had come to an end. The two 'trials of the century' announced that the Xing Yao Federation was bidding farewell to the past.
From the Speaker of the Federation to the common workers, every citizen of the Federation got rid of the burdens of the past and strode toward the future with their heads held high!
The 'future', on the other hand, gave the bumpkins at the edge of the cosmos a heavy blow without any mercy!
"What the Federation is going to face is perhaps not the Imperium, a super force at the center of the cosmos, but the 'Holy League', which is even stronger and more dreadful than the Imperium!"
The news swept across the entire Federation like a thunderstorm and spread to the Heaven's Origin Sector, the Flying Star Sector, and the Blood Demon Sector in the next moment. Everybody was dumbfounded and dizzy!
The New Federation, which was still being nurtured, was like a fish that had just grown fins and scales and whose bones were not hard enough when it was suddenly thrown into a surging ocean. The world before its eyes was billions of times larger all of a sudden. Raging octopuses, ferocious whales … Countless ferocious beasts were showing up in the mysterious deep ocean!
As for whether or not the small fish could survive the scourge of the tides and the hunting of the ferocious beasts and grow into an eight-clawed golden dragon that dominated the entire ocean and become a top player in the sea of stars, it was still unknown. All the ordinary people and Cultivators had to work hard together!
"The much-anticipated 'Yuanying Meeting' will be held today in the unfinished 'New Federation Convention Center' in Grand Desolate City. The meeting is about …"
Ice Butterfly was attracted by the colorful light beam and thought that they were real flowers.
She danced before the light beam, not knowing the profound changes that the 'Yuanying Meeting' would bring to the world that she was in.
The so-called 'Yuanying Meeting', as the name suggested, was a super meeting where all the super experts in the level of Yuanying and demon emperors of the Heaven's Origin Sector, the Flying Star Sector, and the Blood Demon Sector were gathered to make plans for the future of the three Sectors so that all the creatures in the three Sectors could survive in the perilous sea of stars.
The meeting that Jiang Hailiu, the Speaker of the Federation, had been a pipe dream in the beginning.
Everybody knew that, although the war between the Heaven's Origin Sector and the Blood Demon Sector had come to an end, the distrust among the top experts could not be erased overnight. Most of the demon emperors were suspicious that the meeting was a scheme of the Cultivators to fish up all of them.
Although the Yuanying of the Flying Star Sector did not have a problem of trust, it would consume astronomical resources to jump to and fro from the Tian Yuan Realm, too.
At first, except for Jiang Hailiu, the Speaker of the Federation, few people thought that the 'Yuanying Meeting' would be held smoothly.
However, as the integration of the three Sectors progressed smoothly, the technological communication between the Heaven's Origin Sector and the Blood Demon Sector deepened, too. After the Union Army went to the frontline of the epidemic area of the Blood Demon Sector with tremendous antidotes of the Demon God Virus, the situation gradually changed.
The existence of the 'Holy League' was like an invisible, sharp blade that chopped the outdated beliefs of all the top experts into smithereens!
After the emergency deployment of the space communication system was completed, some of the demon emperors and Yuanying who were unwilling to attend the meeting in person were allowed to participate in the remote meeting. The last obstacle was cleared, too!
The top experts of the three Sectors were finally able to gather and fight for each other's future!
Because of the different environments of the three Sectors, the influence and control that the top experts had over the society were different, too. Also, when faced with such important issues as the 'Imperium' and the 'Holy League', they did not have complete information and could not make the most correct choice immediately. Therefore, after careful consideration, Speaker Jiang Hailiu defined the 'Yuanying Meeting' as a civil gathering.
All the Nascent Soul Stage Cultivators and demon emperors who participated in the meeting, no matter what their posts were in their own worlds, such as the leader of a sect, the chief of a family, or even the representatives and the Speaker, did not represent their official identities in this place. They were only here as individuals and represented themselves.
Even in the Yuanying Meeting, whatever conclusions and decisions were passed, they would not be legally binding at all. The Building Foundation Stage Cultivators, the Core Formation Stage Cultivators, the demon generals, and the demon kings who did not attend the meeting could not be bound, much less the ordinary people of the three Sectors.
Furthermore, even the Yuanying who attended the meeting could refuse to carry out the decisions of the meeting at any time if they were dissatisfied with the spirit of the meeting.
Theoretically speaking, the meeting was a theoretical meeting that was rather empty. It was a collision of the most cutting-edge ideas and a meeting about the great path of the new Federation.
It could not be helped. For those in the level of Yuanying and demon emperors, it was barely possible to restrain them with regular methods.
Faced with such formidable threats as the 'Imperium' and the 'Holy League', it was even less likely that the three Sectors would be mired in civil strife again by force.
As for what path the new Federation would choose, and whether it would counterattack or kneel and surrender, it would be up to every Yuanying, every Cultivator, and even every ordinary person to decide for themselves!
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