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"More terrifying speculations?"
Li Yao sneered. "You can say whatever you want, Master Gui. I'm all ears. If what you said does make sense, it's not hard to say that I will increase the investment in the 'Monument Plan'!"
Pretending that he did not hear the sarcasm in Li Yao's words, Gui Suishou said unhurriedly, "Alright. Then, I'll discuss it with you, Fellow Cultivator Li! Just now, I only mentioned the possibility that the people of the Holy League excavated the relics of the Pangu civilization on a large scale. Under such a possibility, the Pangu civilization's influence on the Holy League will still be indirect and passive. In the meantime, the 'Pangu's Covenant' will be an agreement between human beings from different Sectors!
"But, is there a worse hypothesis?"
"What if the 'Pangu's Covenant' is not an agreement between the people of the Holy League but an agreement between the people of the Holy League and the Pangu civilization? What if the Pangu civilization's influence on the Holy League is not indirect and passive but direct and active?
"What if the Pangu civilization — the living Pangu civilization and the Pangu race — is lurking behind the war between the Holy League and the Imperium?"
The sneer on Li Yao's face was completely frozen. Dumbfounded for a long time, he said resolutely, "That's impossible. The Pangu civilization has been destroyed for a long time!"
"Who said that?" Gui Suishou asked calmly.
Li Yao wanted to reply instinctively. Who else could have said that? Weren't the so-called Pangu, Kuafu, and Nuwa all races in myths and legends? They should've been destroyed hundreds of thousands of years ago!
But on second thought, he did not have any proof that the Pangu civilization was completely destroyed. He was just taking it for granted!
At most, they had never seen the Pangu race with their own eyes since the birth of human civilization 100,000 years ago. That was all!
But that was not right. In the age of the ancient Cultivators forty thousand years ago, it was possible that somebody had seen the Pangu. Also, the communication between human beings and the Pangu at that time should have been quite close. Otherwise, how could the myths such as' Pangu opened the sky, Kuafu chased after the sun, Gong Gong provoked the Buzhou Mountain, and Nuwa mended the sky and created human beings' have been passed down?
This was the evidence of the close contact between the human ancestors and the Pangu tribe!
Seeing that his face was gloomy, Gui Suishou put on an even bigger smile. "Look. Even you are not sure if the Pangu civilization has really perished, right?"
"Besides, even if a civilization is destroyed, there are many ways to be rejuvenated and make a comeback!
Li Yao shuddered. For some reason, he thought of the Blood Stripe Virus, another species in the universe that had perished a long time ago!
"In the field of the primeval myths and the Pangu civilization, the demon race is more developed than human beings," Gui Suishou said casually. "Since the Demon Beast Dynasty forty thousand years ago, we have been passing down classics such as the Legends of Ancient Demons. In many of the classics, there are sayings about 'destruction, rebirth, and immortality'. There are also legends such as' the Pangu will return in the final war and bring us to the glorious Pantheon of Demons to enjoy eternal glory '. 'Literature Building' "
Li Yao burst into fury. "Those are the propaganda that the high-level demons use to dominate and paralyze the low-level demons!"
Gui Suishou smiled. "Yes. It is indeed a propaganda method to confuse people. But no propaganda is groundless. It is exactly because the rumor that the gods of the Pangu will return that such a system of propaganda and myths has been spreading among the demons for a long time.
"The propaganda is false, but the rumor that the gods of the Pangu will return probably comes from the primeval memories deep inside the cells of generations of demons over the past tens of thousands of years. Perhaps, it is a message that the Pangu civilization has left for us, just like the last words that your foster father left for you, Fellow Cultivator Li."
Li Yao took a deep, deep breath.
Gui Suishou, the old lunatic, was too dangerous!
He seemed old, sluggish, aloof, and harmless. But after a few words, without even releasing his demonic energy, Li Yao's soul was shaken, and he almost lost his belief!
The old scoundrel was even more dreadful than Jin Tuyi and Elder Nether Spring!
Li Yao summoned his spiritual energy in silence and consolidated his belief. He gnashed his teeth. "Master Gui, are you suggesting that a living Pangu is hiding behind the Alliance of the Holy Covenant? That's rather odd. Isn't the Pangu our creator? Isn't the Pangu civilization our parent civilization? Do you think that a father is hostile to his son? "
"I'm not saying that a living Pangu is definitely hiding behind the Holy Covenant, or that the Pangu civilization will arrive or be reborn," Gui Suishou said unhurriedly.
"It's just that if you consider what will happen in the worst-case scenario and how you should deal with it, you will not be panicked whether or not it will happen in the end.
"Maybe I'm just spouting nonsense. The Alliance of the Holy Covenant has nothing to do with the Pangu. The Pangu civilization has long perished in the dust of history and will never arrive or be reborn.
"Even if it arrives or is reborn, it will still be a generous, amiable father who will offer us selfless help, end our wars and slavery, and make our civilization soar!
"It will be great if that is the case.
"But what if it isn't?
"What if the worst-case scenario does happen one after another?
"What if the Pangu civilization, our 'parent civilization', is really reborn, hostile to us, and interfering with our civilization through the Alliance of the Holy Covenant while hiding in the dark?"
Gui Suishou's words cast Li Yao into deep thought. His disdain for Gui Suishou a moment ago was immediately gone!
"Now, you understand why I'm an absolute pessimist, don't you?"
Gui Suishou sighed and smiled bitterly. "If we were only faced with the Imperium and the Holy Covenant, the two super forces of the civilization of mankind, I wouldn't be so desperate! However, if what we are faced with is our parent civilization, the creator, and the deities in the universe, what qualifications do we have to fight against them?
"Failure is inevitable when we resist our parent civilization. Running away is the only way out!"
Li Yao clenched his fists and narrowed his eyes. His eyes were compressed into two sabers as he said, one word after another, "I still don't understand. Even if the Pangu civilization does exist, why would they be hostile to us and even want to destroy us if they created us?"
"Didn't the civilization of mankind create the civilization of the demon race?"
Gui Suishou said calmly. "But didn't the civilization of mankind hate the civilization of the demon race and even want to destroy it? If the Imperium of True Human Beings hadn't shown up, would the Tian Yuan Realm and the Blood Demon Sector have reconciled even if they had learned the same-origin theory? "
Li Yao was immediately rendered speechless.
It was true that the demon race was created by human beings, and the civilization of mankind was sort of the 'parent civilization' of the demon race. However, the 'parent-child relationship' did not mean that the two civilizations could live in peace.
On the contrary, the civilization of mankind did not have good intentions when it created the 'child' of the demon race. It only wanted the demon race to be a miner.
In the meantime, the civilization of the demon race had awakened self-awareness from the very first day it was born. It resisted its father fiercely and even launched a war of 'patricide', successfully destroying the civilization of mankind at the very beginning!
That was the relationship between the civilization of mankind and the civilization of the demon race. Then, what was the relationship between the Pangu civilization and the civilization of mankind? Was the Pangu civilization really destroyed? Did their destruction have anything to do with the civilization of mankind that was just born in the primeval era?
"It seems that you have woken up."
Gui Suishou extended his hands that were as wrinkled as kelp and patted Li Yao's shoulder neither too heavily nor too lightly. "Young man, the universe is much darker than you can imagine. The so-called 'father-son relationship' means absolutely nothing in such a cold world.
"Besides, the morals and rules of different civilizations are vastly different. Maybe certain things that are very moral and justifiable in the eyes of the Pangu civilization are unpardonable in our eyes?
"Maybe the Pangu civilization is not hostile to us at all and only wants to 'discipline' their 'son' who is somewhat out of line. But are you sure that such 'discipline' is acceptable in our morals?"
Li Yao gritted his teeth, his eyes sharper and sharper. He declared resolutely, "I don't care what kind of parent or child civilization they are. Whoever threatens the civilization of mankind, even if they are deities in the universe, I will kill them without hesitation!"
"I appreciate your courage. In my eight hundred years of long life, I've seen countless brave men. You are one of the best of them."
Gui Suishou sighed and said gloomily, "But the enemy that we are faced with this time is perhaps truly different from the past. Too different!
"You must've heard a saying before.
"If the emperor wants his subject to die, the subject has to die. If the father wants his son to die, the son has to die!"
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Ten minutes later, the Yuanying Meeting entered the second half, which was also the most important part.
Faced with the invasion of the Imperium of True Human Beings and the emergence of the Holy League, many experts of the Yuanying had come up with their own countermeasures. Some of them were new magical equipment, Cultivation arts, and new troops on the tactical level, and some were magnificent plans that would span decades and consume countless resources on the strategic level.
All the plans and proposals would be discussed in the Yuanying Meeting. If they could win the support of the Yuanying experts, they would likely become the main strategies of the three Sectors in the next hundred years. At the very least, they would indicate the direction of development in a certain field.
"Fellow Cultivators, it is time for us to brainstorm and show what we are best at!"
Jiang Hailiu, the host of the meeting, reorganized his thoughts in the ten minutes and tried to regain the momentum that had been led astray by Gui Suishou. "Allow me to share my opinion first. In fact, there is no need to underestimate ourselves at all. Compared to the Imperium and the Holy League, we may indeed be inferior in most fields, but we do have advantages in four fields. Not only are we not far behind the Imperium and the Holy League, we may even be better than them!
"If we strengthen the development of the four fields in the next hundred years, it is very likely that we will become the trump card and the fatal weapon of the Federation!"
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