"Miss Long, what's wrong? Are you interested in my true disciple 'Lu Qingchen'?"
Su Changfa was obviously very proud of his disciple. Scratching his long beard, he said gloatingly, "Li Yao has gone through a lot of trouble and schemed everything, but he doesn't know that 'man proposes, and nature disposes'. However wonderful his idea is, there will always be a lot of unexpected factors when it is realized! Lu Qingchen's arrival may be the first one, but I don't believe that he will be the last one!
"Qingchen, Fellow Cultivator Li and I have something to discuss. Why don't you accompany Miss Long for a walk and introduce the development of the game 'Civilization' to her? If she is interested in you personally, you can have a good chat with her, too!"
"Yes, master."
The young Immortal Cultivator Lu Qingchen nodded and bowed to Long Yunxin dutifully. "This way, please, Miss Long."
Long Yunxin knew that the two Yuanying experts were about to get together and discuss some weird, mysterious things again.
The communication between the Nascent Soul Stage Cultivators was too weird and mysterious for her to keep up with. She could not even tell whether they were flattering each other or cursing each other.
The young man, on the other hand, seemed to be able to communicate with them.
Who was he? Why had he become the true disciple of an Immortal Cultivator? Did the government of the Federation just turn a blind eye to such things?
Long Yunxin had ten thousand questions that she wanted to ask. Su Changfa's suggestion was exactly what she wanted. She followed the young man and left the chamber quickly.
"Mr. Lu, how did you become Senior Su's true disciple? Do — do you really believe in the true path of immortality? "
Long Yunxin asked eagerly while they were still on the way.
"What's wrong with the true path of immortality?"
Lu Qingchen asked in a casual tone.
It seemed that the young man did not consider Long Yunxin, his sister who was more than ten years older than him, as an opponent of his level at all.
"Well …"
Long Yunxin was rendered speechless for a moment. She blurted out, "Do you need to ask? Of course, the true path of immortality is not good. You can tell how cruel the Immortal Cultivators are just by looking at the game 'Civilization'!"
Lu Qingchen smiled. His voice had not completely gotten rid of the tenderness of a young man, but it was now mixed with a unique hoarseness. "As you said yourself, 'Civilization' is just a game, and a very biased one at that. It is just a brainwashing method of the Cultivators. How can it be used to judge the quality of the true path of immortality?"
"Under my master's leadership, I once participated in part of the post-production work of 'Civilization' as an assistant. When designing the game 'Civilization', especially its DLC 'Rise of the Imperium', the designer intentionally selected a lot of pictures, scenes, and plots that were unfavorable for the Immortal Cultivators. Without them knowing it, the players would grow contempt, disgust, and hatred for the Immortal Cultivators!
"Such an approach is no different from the brainwashing methods that the Immortal Cultivators performed on Master Li Yao in the war base. They are both intercepting a certain aspect and magnifying and polarizing it to achieve a specific purpose.
"Today, you can be 'deeply touched' and full of hatred for the true path of immortality after playing the game for only a few hours. Tomorrow, you can also be infected by the passion and passion of the Immortal Cultivators and awed by the magnificent warships and cannons of the Imperium of True Human Beings!
"But getting to the bottom of it, people like you do not understand the Immortal Cultivators or the Immortal Cultivators at all. You are merely at the mercy of other people.
"As the saying goes, 'a summer insect cannot talk about ice'. How can I answer your question when your belief is so weak?"
Long Yunxin was dumbfounded.
Help me!
She suddenly wanted to go back and listen to the two old Yuanying monsters flattering each other. She did not want to stay with the little monster any longer!
"Therefore, before we discuss whether or not I believe in the 'true path of immortality', we'd better figure out what the 'true path of immortality' is first! If it is good, what is good about it? How is it good? If it is bad, how exactly is it bad? How bad is it? How bad is it? "
The young Immortal Cultivator paused for a moment and said solemnly, "This is the only reason why I am learning from my master. I want to completely understand the true path of immortality and figure out what it is exactly. Only then can I decide whether to believe it or not."
Long Yunxin understood what he meant. She was relieved. "Got it. You are just curious and do not really believe in the path of immortality. So, you are still a Cultivator, right?"
"No." Lu Qingchen quickly shook his head.
Lu Qingchen shook his head quickly. "Like I said, I will not believe in a theory until I figure it out completely. It is the same for the Immortal Cultivators. It is the same for the Cultivators. Therefore, I am neither an Immortal Cultivator nor a Cultivator. I am just a common Cultivator and a student who is still exploring. Let's just say that I do not have a specific belief!"
"Well …"
The answer was even more difficult to understand than the young man's claim that he was an Immortal Cultivator. Long Yunxin was truly confused. "You do not believe in anything because you do not have a belief?"
"Exactly. What's the problem?"
Lu Qingchen glanced at her matter-of-factly. Thinking for a moment, he said, "When I was little, I believed in a lot of things innocently like you and everybody else.
"I was born on the Grand Desolate Plateau. I lost my parents in the beast tide and became an orphan. Later, I was raised by my foster father, who was also a war orphan, and I lived with my foster father and my grandfather.
"At that time, I firmly believed that the demons were the embodiment of evil and the most ferocious enemies, and that my foster father and my grandfather were the great heroes who defended the Federation!
"When the news of the invasion of the Imperium of True Human Beings came, the whole world suddenly took a 180 degrees turn. The ferocious demons suddenly became targets that we could unite with. The heroes who were determined to fight the demons to the end became traitors and careerists who despised the Federation!
"The demon emperors who were promoted to be unpardonable and brutal showed up openly on the land of the Federation. My foster father, my foster father's foster father, and my grandfather Lu Zui, on the other hand, became enemies of the country because they founded the Patriots Partnership!
"My grandfather died in prison without a sound. My foster father was sentenced to fifty years of heavy punishment and sent to the depths of the Flying Star Sector for mining.
"Alright. I convinced myself for a long, long time that they deserved it and that the Immortal Cultivators were our most dreadful enemy. Faced with the threat of the Imperium of True Human Beings, I could and had to let go of the bloody grudge in the past, including the unforgivable hatred for my birth parents!
"I really thought it through and let go of everything completely. I smashed my beliefs in the past into pieces and reestablished a belief that was more solid, tough, and unshakable. I shifted my unforgettable hatred for the demons and vented it on the Imperium of True Human Beings and the Immortal Cultivators!
"However, just when I confirmed my new belief, another piece of astounding news came. As it turned out, the Immortal Cultivators were not the evilest enemy in the universe. There were people who were even eviler than the Immortal Cultivators. They were the people of the Holy League!
"Hehe. Ever since the news of the 'minor apocalypse' came over, the Federation had been exaggerating the horrors of the Immortal Cultivators, just like they exaggerated the horrors of the demons in the past. They were raging, hideous, evil, and vicious!
"This time, it's going to change again. The Immortal Cultivators are understandable and communicable again? In the most extreme cases, we may even have to work with the Immortal Cultivators to fight against the people of the Holy League? "
"Are you kidding me?"
"If the sworn enemies can become intimate allies, the unstoppable heroes can become ambitious traitors, and the Immortal Cultivators can waver between the roles of 'enemy' and 'ally', who knows whether or not an existence even eviler than the Holy League will jump out one day, and we will have to fight side by side with the Holy League again?"
The young man said with a fake smile, "Tell me, what should I believe in when I'm at a loss for what to do with such an abrupt change? I'm scared that the unpredictable reality will jump out and shatter it brutally the moment I choose a new belief! "
Long Yunxin was rendered speechless.
She, who came from a well-off family and had grown up smoothly, simply could not understand the young man's ups and downs and the excessively exciting bumpy life.
"Therefore, I don't believe in anything right now," Lu Qingchen said.
"I need to spend some time studying the difference between the Cultivators and the Immortal Cultivators. Perhaps it will take me decades or even a hundred years to figure out the two beliefs before I decide which one to believe in."
"A hundred years?"
Long Yunxin was greatly shocked again.
Looking at the young man's solemn face, her intuition told her that the young man was not bragging but making a life plan rather solemnly.
"Is it very strange?"
"Sometimes, I feel that people like you are very weird. Even when you buy a vegetable in the market or a crystal processor in the store, you have to pick and analyze carefully before you make a decision. How can you become a Cultivator or an Immortal Cultivator rashly when you are so impulsive when it comes to something as important as a belief?" Lu Qingchen said, not thinking that it was a big deal.
"Even if you spend your entire life pondering and making a choice, it is perfectly normal and reasonable that you do not make a decision until the moment before your death!"
Long Yunxin blushed in embarrassment because of Lu Qingchen's words. She tried to change the topic to cover her embarrassment.
"Well, Mr. Lu, it means that if you spend decades studying and come to the conclusion that the true path of immortality is correct, you will become an Immortal Cultivator without any hesitation, right?"
The young man nodded. "Of course."
"But have you never considered the consequences of such a decision? I can tell that you are not hiding your thoughts at all. Do you not feel that such a decision will bring you some … trouble? "
Long Yunxin considered her words carefully.
Decades or even a hundred years later, when the Imperium of True Human Beings was approaching, the Xing Yao Federation would be on high alert. If an Immortal Cultivator were to appear on a large scale inside the federation, his ending would certainly be more than 'trouble'.
The big-eyed young man smiled, like a bean sprout dancing in the wind.
"I understand what you mean, Miss Long."
With rainbow-like brilliance beaming out of the depths of Lu Qingchen's big eyes, he said unhurriedly, "Coincidentally, when they were instructing me in training, my grandfather Lu Zui and my master Su Changfa both said something of a similar meaning.
"They said that, if the truth is hidden in the deepest level of hell, who will go to hell if not me?"
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