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"Master of Stars …"
Although Zhou Yifu, the historian, was exaggerating and overly optimistic, at this moment, none of the two hundred experts participating in the Meeting of the Nascent Soul Stage were willing to refute him.
Over the past year and a half, under the heavy pressure of the expedition army of the Imperium of True Human Beings, the Heaven's Origin Sector, the Flying Star Sector, and the Blood Demon Sector had all been panicking and suffocating. Such optimism was exactly what was needed to boost their morale.
Even if it was overkill, as long as there was a slim chance of survival, they would be able to summon all their spirit, courage, and combat ability in the cold, dangerous universe and fight on with all their might!
"Fellow Cultivator Zhou is quite right. The tough bones that we, the unruly folks in the middle of nowhere, will certainly surprise the super forces at the center of the cosmos!"
Seeing that everybody was more determined than before, Jiang Hailiu immediately said, "Since most of the fellow Cultivators are confident in our survival and rise, let's move on to the next topic.
"Know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be defeated. To defeat the super forces at the center of the cosmos, we must at least have a preliminary understanding of them.
"Regarding the Imperium of True Human Beings, the fellow Cultivators of the Flying Star Sector have parsed a lot of information from the remaining soul pieces of the star child over the past few years. We know that it is a country that has inherited a lot of techniques and secret arts of the Star Ocean Imperium, is controlled by the Immortal Cultivators, and regards' evolution 'as the highest goal. Human life is nothing more than grass, and it exploits the ordinary people as much as possible.
"From the information, we can infer a lot of intelligence. We can even draw a vague picture of the social form and technological level of the Imperium of True Human Beings and evaluate the combat ability of the expedition army of the Imperium.
"But what about the 'Holy League'?
"We really don't know the first thing about the country that is hidden in the mist. What is their social form, bureaucratic system, cultural style, and moral concept?
"The social form of the Holy League is obviously different from that of the Imperium. Otherwise, the two parties wouldn't be at loggerheads. The Holy League is obviously different from the Federation, too. Otherwise, Fellow Cultivator Li Yao's foster father wouldn't have hated his homeland so much!
"What's wrong with the country that claims to be a hundred times eviler than the Imperium of True Human Beings?"
"Right now, we don't have any files at all, but the issue is very important for our strategic development in the next hundred years. Fellow Cultivators, can you brainstorm the general picture of the 'Holy League' with your remarkable computational ability and deduction ability?"
After Jiang Hailiu finished speaking, he looked at the Yuanying expectantly.
The Yuanying were silent.
They couldn't do anything about it. Even the cleverest housewife couldn't cook without rice. No matter how powerful they were, how could they deduce the truth of the Holy League without any evidence and only a name?
A moment later, a Yuanying named "Xie Youxuan" requested to speak.
Other than Lu Zui, he was one of the most outstanding psychologists and meditation healers in the Xing Yao Federation.
"I don't think that you need to dwell too much on the words of Fellow Cultivator Li Yao's foster father," Xie Youxuan said. "'A hundred times eviler than the Imperium of True Human Beings' is probably just an exaggeration.
"Of course, I'm not saying that Fellow Cultivator Li Yao's foster father is lying. It's just an unconscious misunderstanding in psychology.
"Think about it. The Imperium of True Human Beings is already evil enough to regard ordinary people as weeds that can be exploited and butchered at will. Even the newborn babies are not spared! In the eyes of the Immortal Cultivators, ordinary people are not 'real human beings' at all. They are the only 'real human beings'!
"Just like Fellow Cultivator Li Yao said, in the eyes of the morality of the civilization of mankind, this is already the limit of evilness. How evil can the Alliance of the Holy Covenant be? Are all the ordinary people killed the moment they are born? Then, who are they counting on to collect resources and wage wars?
"The so-called 'morality' is a group rule that the civilization of mankind gradually developed to increase the efficiency of the collection and utilization of resources and to reduce the internal friction in order to survive.
"An enormous country that spans the sea of stars certainly requires a very stable social system to collect and utilize resources. So, it certainly has its own morality, and it is impossible for it to be evil for the sake of evil.
"Even though the 'Four Pillars System' of the civilization of demons seems evil, it has its own social and environmental reasons."
"Of course!"
Fire Ant, the firmest opponent of the 'Four Pillars System', rose abruptly and said emotionlessly, "I once established the Blade of Chaos to encourage the middle- and bottom-level demons to rise up and resist the 'Four Pillars System'. It is exactly because of that that I have a deep understanding of the 'Four Pillars System'.
"The reason for the 'Four Pillars System' is very simple. Resources are limited, and the demon race is reproducing too fast. The speed of resource exploitation is far behind the speed of demon reproduction.
"If all the demons have 'natural rights' and enjoy the same treatment as the 'saint-blood demons' and the 'silver-blood demons', where are the extra resources to be consumed going to come from?
"Therefore, only by dividing the demons into different classes and fabricating myths and legends such as' death, rebirth, and immortality 'can the harmony and stability of the entire society be maintained by paralyzing most of the demons and making them live at the bottom and placing their hopes on the afterlife and the afterlife!
"To put it bluntly, after we're out of this hall, we will naturally be able to spurn the 'Four Pillars System' in front of the public and describe it as the evilest, most underdeveloped, and most inhumane system!
"But at the very least, in this place, we should all understand that it is exactly because of the 'Four Pillars System' that the Blood Demon Sector has implemented for thousands of years that the stability of tens of billions of demons has been maintained with such barren land and resources without any outward expansion!
"If the Blood Demon Sector, like the Federation, abandons the 'Four Pillars System', adopts a more democratic voting method, and provides tremendous benefits for the middle- and bottom-level demons, there will be justice, but where will the resources come from?
"In order to satisfy the insatiable appetites of the voters, any candidate will certainly consider 'expansion and search for more resources' as the most important campaign agenda. The candidates who will be elected in the end will definitely be the most extreme and radical candidates!"
"It is an inevitable result that cannot be changed by personal morals. Take me for example. If my Blade of Chaos succeeds in overthrowing the Pantheon of Demons and seizing the supreme power of the Blood Demon Sector, how am I going to fulfill my promise to the members of the Blade of Chaos and bring a good life of 'brightness, prosperity, and equality' to all the demons?
"I don't have the ability to turn stone into gold. I can't conjure resources out of thin air. After much consideration, the only solution is to expand and occupy the Tian Yuan Realm to feed all the demons!
"Therefore, I feel that the people of the Federation should really thank the 'Four Pillars System'. It is exactly because of the 'Four Pillars System' that the Federation has enjoyed five hundred years of peace and tranquility! If the Blood Demon Sector had switched to a democratic system a thousand years ago, enlightened the people, and significantly improved the welfare and education level of the bottom-level people … it would've been much more aggressive. Chances are that the Tian Yuan Realm would've been destroyed before the Federation was born! "
Fire Ant's words rendered all the Yuanying speechless. The atmosphere in the hall suddenly became intense again.
Fire Ant, as the 'leader of the rebels' in the past, had a good grasp of the atmosphere. After poking the Yuanying a little, he immediately changed the topic and said, "I'm not mocking you by saying all that. I only want to remind you that if we do run into the 'Holy League' in space one day, we'd better pray to the gods that the Holy League is an evil country that practices dictatorship and slavery.
"Because such a country only needs to satisfy the appetite of the rulers at the top. Relatively speaking, it is not aggressive enough and does not have enough motivation to expand. It is also faced with the resistance from the middle and lower levels. The internal friction is very serious.
"The Imperium of True Human Beings is kind of like that.
"If the Holy League is as' evil, dictatorial ', and' corrupt 'as the Imperium, it will be much easier to deal with it.
"What I'm afraid of is that the Holy League implements a democratic system similar to the Federation, if not even brighter and more righteous than the Federation. Then, in order to meet the almost infinite demand for resources of all the people of the Holy League, it will have to expand and invade the outside world, and such invasions will be supported by all the people. Its efficiency of resource utilization and its control over the Sectors will be higher than the Imperium's!
"Unfortunately, it is very likely to be the truth.
"Otherwise, it will be impossible to explain why the Holy League, a new force that has just risen, is beating the Imperium of True Human Beings, a traditional superpower, to the ground.
"That's all I have to say. Please continue, Fellow Cultivator Xie."
The Fire Ant King sat down gracefully, leaving everybody in an awkward situation.
Xie Youxuan coughed and said, "Fellow Cultivator Fire Ant's words are indeed worth discussing. All in all, Fellow Cultivator Fire Ant and I both agree that it is probably an exaggeration to say that the Holy League is a hundred times eviler than the Imperium.
"Fellow Cultivator Li Yao's foster father said that for a very simple reason. He was from the Holy League!
"In psychology, this is a very common misconception known as the 'paradise effect'. When there are all kinds of problems in one's living environment that cannot be resolved, one will fabricate a perfect paradise that does not exist as the spiritual sustenance."
"Fellow Cultivator Li Yao's foster father was from the Holy League. Naturally, he grew up in the Holy League. After witnessing and experiencing the evilness of the Holy League in person, he was naturally disgusted by the Holy League.
"As for the evilness of the Imperium, it was impossible for him to know much about it. The best he could say was that he had only heard about it on the surface. It was impossible for him to feel the pain of the bottom-level people of the Imperium.
"Furthermore, because of the hostility between the Holy League and the Imperium, he would consider the evilness of the Imperium that he heard to be the propaganda of the Holy League. He would be even more rebellious.
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