Li Yao did not want to say anything.
When one's shamelessness reached a certain level, even the word 'shameless' sounded like a compliment.
"Fellow Cultivator Li!"
Su Changfa's eyes glittering, he said sincerely, "I've been talking for so long because I want to tell you something. The Cultivators represent the past, and the Immortal Cultivators are the future! I know that you can't completely understand it for the time being. But it doesn't matter. I have to make preparations for our exploration trip, which will take a few hours. You can study the files in the Grand Illusionary Land here!
"Right. Here are three books written by the renowned scholars of the Imperium of True Human Beings. You can read them and deepen your understanding!"
Su Changfa handed over a jade chip that stored three books, namely 'The Mob', 'The Mob', and 'An Analysis of the Collective Unconsciousness of the Dream of Chaos'.
Su Changfa patted Li Yao's shoulder hard and turned around to leave the 'brainwashing room'.
Li Yao stopped him. "Wait, Senior Su. I have two minor questions!"
Su Changfa was not scared of his questions, which meant that he was interested. What he feared most were the silent, stubborn shells that were the most difficult to deal with.
The old man immediately turned around and said with a smile, "Feel free to ask, Fellow Cultivator Li!"
"Well, I want to know what happened to the Martial Meritocrats Sector and the Sand Primitive Sector in the beginning."
Li Yao scratched his hair and asked curiously.
Su Changfa grinned hideously. "After Blackstar the Great established the Imperium of True Human Beings and unified the center of the cosmos, he certainly did not forget his homeland! After hundreds of years of changes, the level of civilization in the two remote worlds contaminated by the Chiyou Cult has stagnated. In many fields, it has even deteriorated to an appalling level! "
"When Blackstar the Great arrived at the top of their homeland with the fleet of the Imperium, the ignorant disciples of the Chiyou Cult thought that it was the end of the world!
"However, they didn't guess wrong."
"Blackstar the Great hated everybody in the Martial Meritocrats Sector and the Sand Primitive Sector. Everybody in the two Sectors, including their offspring, will be branded with special marks and reduced to the humblest slaves of the Imperium for all eternity!"
"Those slaves will not be treated as mercifully as the common slaves. They are the 'lab rats' of the Imperium. To this day, they still play an 'irreplaceable' role in many fields!"
"Hehe. After hearing what happened to Blackstar the Great in the past, I believe that you can understand his fury, right, Fellow Cultivator Li?"
Li Yao shuddered.
Of course, he knew what a "white mouse" meant.
He couldn't help but think that the special experts of spectral Cultivators such as the star child could only be refined at the cost of the souls of hundreds of babies. For the stability of the Imperium, the hundreds of babies might not necessarily be the offspring of common slaves but the descendants of the survivors of the Martial Meritocrats Sector and the Sand Primitive Sector.
Whether or not the ordinary people of the Martial Meritocrats Sector and the Sand Primitive Sector deserved death, Li Yao was still deeply disgusted by such a punishment that would implicate their descendants and make them unable to rise again for the rest of their lives.
However, that was not the question that he really wanted to ask.
He threw the question out first only to numb Su Changfa's nerves and cover the second question!
"That explains a lot. That's what you call karma!"
Li Yao clapped his hands and pretended that he was asking casually. "Right. There are also the people of the Holy League. They were all annihilated later, weren't they?"
Su Changfa coughed. With an unnatural expression on his face, he nodded and said, "Yes. They were mostly annihilated. Only a few remnants are still hiding at the edge of the cosmos in fear. They cannot pose a substantial threat to the Imperium!"
That was it!
Li Yao chuckled in his heart. After such a long time, he had finally grasped the weakness of the guy!
The guy had been bragging about Blackstar the Great, the wrath of the heavens, and the devils, but he still failed at the critical moment!
Hiding from place to place, living in constant fear?
No one would believe that!
Li Yao's foster father was from the Holy League. It was more than twenty years ago that he fled to the Tian Yuan Realm. According to his foster father, the Holy League was at least as strong as the Imperium!
His foster father had no reason to lie to him, but Su Changfa definitely had ten thousand reasons to lie!
It seemed that Blackstar the Great's trick of 'keeping enemies for himself' turned out to be 'inviting trouble to himself'. Two monsters, the Imperium of True Human Beings and the Alliance of the Holy Covenant, had been bred on the enormous body of the Star Ocean Republic at the same time!
Li Yao calculated and deduced crazily in his heart, but his face was flawless. Su Changfa observed carefully and did not notice any loophole. After bragging about Blackstar the Great's accomplishments and the invincibility of the Imperium of True Human Beings, he left the brainwashing room in a hurry.
Sitting cross-legged at the center of the brainwashing room, Li Yao touched the jade chip that stored the academic monographs such as' A Crowd of Crows'. He pretended that he was comprehending them carefully, but deep inside his brain, he was tearing apart every word that Su Changfa said and every picture that flashed in the Grand Illusionary Land with his own computational ability and judgment before he reassembled them into the facts that he knew!
"I think that Blackstar the Great completed the transition from a 'Cultivator' to an 'Immortal Cultivator' the moment he was tied up by ordinary people and thrown into the crater of the volcano!
"Later, he luckily survived and wandered in the sea of stars for hundreds of years. In the dark, cold universe, he trained himself while he perfected the theories of the Immortal Cultivators!
"Of course, he did not wander to the Star Ocean Republic by accident. After learning the existence of the strongest country in the world of human beings through the scraps of the star maps, he considered it a prey and lunged at it voluntarily!
"The first thing he did after he arrived in the Star Ocean Republic was probably to establish the 'Salvation Syndicate' and develop the Immortal Cultivators in secret. His theories and beliefs were disseminated everywhere like a virus!
"The arrival of the Holy League gave him a great opportunity. He joined the border defense army. After more than ten years of tug-of-war, he kept the enemies for himself and grew stronger and stronger. Then, after a series of delicate schemes, he launched a coup and successfully seized power!
"However, there was still a critical problem after he seized power!
"The Star Ocean Republic is a civilization of Cultivators after all. The Cultivators and the ordinary people are in a harmonious and equal relationship. The spirit of republicanism is deeply rooted in people's hearts. Even though the heyday of the country has passed, there should still be a long way to go before it reaches the end of the road. The social contradictions are not too sharp and irreconcilable.
"In either the parliamentary system or the presidential system, even Wuying Qi, as the president, cannot change the system of the country freely or slaughter all the Cultivators in the hundred Sectors for no good reason.
"In other words, the Star Ocean Republic has developed for a thousand years and has its own beliefs, too. It is not something that a foreigner who has only been here for more than ten years and who rose to power through a coup can shake easily.
"Chances are that the second invasion of the Holy League and the Cultivators was directed by him, too!
"Only in such a way would he have a justifiable excuse to completely eliminate the forces of the Cultivators, destroy the beliefs of the Star Ocean Republic, change the system of the country, and establish an Imperium of True Human Beings that completely belongs to the Immortal Cultivators!
"Hehe. What a cunning and cunning man! What an unstoppable hero of the universe!"
Li Yao sneered in his heart.
"So what?"
The mental devil jumped to its feet and shrieked, like the most zealous groupie who had just been insulted by its idol. "Even if your deduction is completely correct, it only means that our Blackstar the Great is a man of great wisdom and foresight!
"The world is too big, and there are too many stars. How can he govern the entire universe without any tricks?
"If your analysis is true, I will worship Blackstar the Great even more. All the stars in the universe are under his control. Wow. My blood is boiling just thinking about it!"
"I'm sorry, but I'm afraid that not all the stars in the universe are under his control. Even if Blackstar the Great did take everything into consideration, he still missed one thing, a matter of life and death!"
Li Yao said coldly, "In order to rise to power, Wuying Qi played the trick of 'keeping the enemy for himself'. Perhaps he knew the formidability of the people of the Holy League, but he was more confident about his own capabilities and approaches. He believed that he could certainly control the 'poisonous fire' and make the people of the Holy League work for him!
"After all, once he succeeded, he would have the most prosperous area at the center of the cosmos under his control. With the tremendous resources and relics of the Star Ocean Imperium as his foundation, who could possibly be a match for him, together with his great wisdom and foresight?
"Hehe. Little did he know that the Alliance of the Holy Covenant was perhaps deeply connected to the Pangu in the primeval era. In terms of wealth, the Alliance of the Holy Covenant was much more abundant!
"Wuying Qi has made all the right choices, but he has completely screwed up on this issue. Raising an enemy for his own gain has turned into raising a tiger for himself. The Imperium is rising, but the Covenant Alliance is rising at an even higher speed. Chances are that it has already swallowed the 'foundation' that Wuying Qi built after all the trouble!"
"Hehe!"
Lost for words, the mental devil glared at Li Yao angrily.
Li Yao turned a blind eye to it and said calmly, "Su Changfa rambled on for so long. I haven't figured out how to answer him yet."
"However, I do have one thing in mind. If the Imperium of True Human Beings is as perfect as he claimed, and it is the most advanced form of the civilization of mankind that can trigger infinite potentials, why hasn't the Alliance of the Holy Covenant been completely annihilated yet?
"He did not even dare to tell me the real strength of the Alliance of the Holy Covenant right now. Instead, he made up a lie of 'living in fear all day long'. Why? Was he scared that I would grow suspicious of the magnificence of the Imperium after I learned the truth?
"What do you think, me on the dark side?"
The mental devil was so angry that bloody mist was popping up on its head. It gnashed its teeth hard and said shamelessly, "I don't care. I don't care. After all, the true path of immortality is the ultimate truth in the dark universe. Survival of the fittest is the law of nature. You cannot refute such a 'law of nature' at all!"
"Take the choice that you avoided just now, for example."
The mental devil changed the topic by attacking instead of defending. It grinned hideously. "If you were guarding the border, and you were faced with the choice of killing ten million people or saving a hundred billion people, what would you do exactly?
"Don't say that Wuying Qi set up traps in secret because of his selfishness. You are simply avoiding the truth!
"Let's not talk about Wuying Qi. Let's talk about you. Assuming that you are an honorable and selfless person, what would you choose when you are caught in the same dilemma? Could you have made a different choice from Wuying Qi's?
"Say it. Do you dare to answer the question directly, Cultivator?"
If it was not possible today, it would be midnight.
He had been so aggressive a couple of days ago because he wanted to finish the new "competition of beliefs" as soon as possible. After all, too many dark and negative things were involved. Not just everybody else, even Old Bull himself was wavering.
Now that it was finally over, and Li Yao's belief was slowly returning, he could finally take a long breath in relief. How exciting!
Some of his friends felt that the paragraph was a bit cumbersome. It was true that it was a bit "brainwashing".
However, the introduction of the "Imperium of True Human Beings" and "Blackstar the Great", the strongest Immortal Cultivator, as an important part of the following chapters, were still necessary, right?
Besides, part of the reasons for the rise of the Holy League were brought out in the meantime! It was almost a buy one get one free deal. What a great deal!
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