"Wolf, sheep, grass!"
Li Yao considered Han Yuantai's words carefully.
His speech was describing the relationship between Cultivators, ordinary people, and resources. Although it was still crude and crude, it was already much more advanced than the attitude of the ancient Cultivators in the early years, when ordinary people were regarded as ants.
"Master!"
Han Yuantai suddenly grew excited. Waving his fists, he shouted, "Do you think that I have come to the Southland of Sorcerers by myself only to realize the change of dynasty and let Cloud Qin replace the Great Qian Dynasty?
"Then, you are underestimating the ambitions of Cloud Qin again!
"My brother Han Baling often said that if it were just a regular change of dynasty, it would be better not to change it at all!
"It is because such changes of dynasty have happened hundreds of times in the past hundred thousand years in the Ancient Sages Sector, but none of the dynasties has survived three thousand years. Even the most prosperous dynasties will inevitably decay and perish after a thousand years of storms!
"Every dynasty has a different name and era, but the process of their rise and fall is exactly the same!
"At first, the world is in chaos. Sects are everywhere. The strong prey on the weak, and the cruel slaughters are everywhere. The population of both ordinary people and Cultivators plummets!
"When the population of Cultivators is low enough, and their demand for resources such as wealth, land, arts, and companions is not so urgent, the contradictions between them will be eased, too. They will understand the logic of compromise and cooperation, and a unified and stable dynasty will be established eventually!
"However, in the unified and stable dynasty, the Cultivators, without external threats and with a long lifespan, will reproduce and expand on a large scale. Their population will grow larger and larger, and their craving for resources will grow higher and higher. Eventually, there will be so many of them that the entire world cannot support them anymore, just like what is happening right now. Therefore, another cycle and another troubled world will follow!
"The same story has already been repeated several hundred times. If what our Yunqin people want is only a change of dynasty, then even if we establish a new dynasty, even if we can rule for another thousand years, two thousand years, we will still inevitably court our own destruction!"
"Therefore, my brother Han Baling is definitely not just trying to overthrow the Great Qian Dynasty!"
"What he wants, and what all of us in Cloud Qin want, is to completely destroy the sect system and establish a powerful country where there are no sects, no internal strife, where all the Cultivators are highly united, and where we train ourselves under the overall planning of the country. That's why we can rule the Ancient Sages Sector for ten thousand years, fifty thousand years, a hundred thousand years, and a hundred thousand years!"
"Master, this is an unprecedented undertaking of the Ancient Sages Sector a hundred thousand years ago! For an extraordinary person like you, if you can't devote yourself to such a glorious undertaking, what's the point of cultivating this body of magical power? "
The corners of Li Yao's eyes were twitching nonstop. After rolling his eyes for a long time, he said coldly, "In that case, the world of Cultivators in Cloud Qin is an army of strict rules and regulations. Even if the Yuanying Grandmasters join Cloud Qin, they will still be restrained by the rules and cannot do whatever they want, right?"
"That's right."
Han Yuantai declared resolutely. "Military law is the most important thing in Cloud Qin. If a Yuanying breaks the law, they will be punished the same as the civilians!"
"Hehe. Hilarious!"
Li Yao sneered. "I am a boorish man who is used to being idle, and I hate being restrained the most. I can be a dominator in the Southland of Sorcerers or even the Great Qian Dynasty. Why should I be restrained by the so-called 'military law' of Cloud Qin?
"Because only the harshest and fairest military law can stimulate the combat ability and fighting will of every Yuanying and Cultivator to the maximum!"
Han Yuantai stared at Li Yao in the eyes, with sabers and swords spurting out of his eyes. "As a high-level Yuanying, of course, you can choose to live a carefree and carefree life! But as a result, you are destined to be no match for the Yuanying who are bound by the military law and whose belief is firm enough to maximize their combat ability and fighting will!
"Right now, you can live a carefree life for a moment of pleasure, but before long, our Iron Yuanying Legion will crush all the 'carefree and carefree' Yuanying, including you!
"This is the power of an organization, the power of discipline, and the power of a country! This is the trend! This is the destiny! Right now, the destiny is in my hands. We are the Yuanying of a country that is as tough as iron, but you are a tray of loose sand who is only following your own Yuanying! No matter how strong you seem right now, you will be killed sooner or later if you don't join us! "
"How bold of you!"
Gritting his teeth, Li Yao opened his fingers and snatched the air brutally.
Invisible ripples immediately tore apart the air and formed a skinny ghost hand vaguely grabbing Han Yuantai's head!
Crack. Crack! Crack! Crack!
Crack! Crack! Han Yuantai's skull and facial bones immediately uttered appalling sounds. His face was bleeding, and he couldn't have been more twisted!
Li Yao grinned hideously. "It remains to be seen whether or not I am going to die, but you, the Lord of Behemoth Eagle, are going to die right now!"
"Haha. Hahahaha!"
Under Li Yao's suppression, Han Yuantai was trembling in pain. His face was pale, but he laughed desperately. "I've been in the Dark Cloud Sector for more than a hundred years. When I was young, I rode a horse for eight thousand kilometers and slayed a hundred and forty-five notorious' Quick Wind Bandits' on the prairies in thirty-three days!
"I also went to the northernmost part of the continent, where it was always dark and illuminated by the brilliant auroras. I jumped into the depths of the cold ocean and fought a giant whale hundreds of meters long!
"Last year, together with my brother Han Baling and countless other men from the prairies, we marched into the central plateaus unstoppably with dragons and wolves. The three hundred thousand heavy cavalry of the Great Qian Dynasty were defeated and forced to abandon their helmets and armor!"
"Our army stomped on countless Cultivation sects of the Great Qian Dynasty and marched to the capital. I've even seen the golden dragon tiles of the royal palace in the capital with my own eyes!
"In my life, I've wielded the sharpest sabers, rode the fastest swords, made the most heroic brothers, and slain the most valiant enemies. I've tasted enough of the most wonderful, delightful, and valiant feelings in the world. What regrets do I have even if I'm going to die right now?"
"But you, Master!
"After decades of training in seclusion in the wilderness and too many difficulties, you have finally grasped the unparalleled techniques. Now that you have broken out of seclusion, you haven't made any accomplishments, you haven't made any name for yourself, and you haven't tasted the feelings of being admired, worshipped, hated, feared, and loved by the people of the world. But as it turned out, you were going against the heavens and were crushed into smithereens by the iron Yuanying army of Cloud Qin, dying a meaningless death!
"I truly feel sorry for you, Master. Not at all!"
"You! You! You!"
Li Yao burst into fury. The ghost hand was even more brutal and hideous than before. It pierced into Han Yuantai's skull so deeply that smoke was popping up from his head.
Han Yuantai's eyes were bloodshot because of the excruciating pain. Bloody tears were rolling in his eyes, but he did not shed them and simply burst into laughter.
Li Yao was infuriated. After bluffing for a long time, he was finally discouraged after realizing that Han Yuantai would rather die than submit.
Withdrawing the technique, he gnashed his teeth gloomily.
Han Yuantai fell to the ground and finally grunted. He laughed so hard that tears flowed out of his eyes. He managed to say, "Thank — thank you for sparing my life, Master!"
"That's enough."
Li Yao waved his hands in frustration. "I'll ask someone to release your subordinates later. You can go back to the Dark Cloud Prairie with Huo Wujiu!"
Han Yuantai blinked and immediately understood what Li Yao was thinking. He said quickly, "Alright. I know that a few words are definitely not enough to persuade you, Master. You have just broken out of seclusion and do not know much about the situation in the world. It is only right for you to be cautious! I will leave a method to deliver a secret message. No matter what happens, the gate of Cloud Qin will always be open to you, Master. My brother Han Baling and I are looking forward to your arrival on the Dark Cloud Prairies and our great cause! "
"I believe that after you witness the chaos of the Great Qian Dynasty with your own eyes, Master, the day won't be far away!"
"Get lost."
Li Yao sniffed. "Before I change my mind."
Crossing his hands, Han Yuantai bowed deeply at Li Yao and left.
It was not the salute of a barbarian.
It was the military salute of the Cloud Qin Empire a hundred thousand years ago!
When he disappeared out of the garden, the brutality and frustration on Li Yao's face were suddenly gone, replaced by deep excitement and admiration.
His heart was pounding, and he could not calm down for a long time.
He knew that he was witnessing the birth of a real 'country of Cultivators'.
Han Yuantai was quite right. In the early years of the ancient Cultivators, there were a lot of sects and experts. Not just the Yuanying Cultivators and the Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivators, even the insignificant Refinement Stage Cultivators and the Building Foundation Stage Cultivators could go on a rampage and ignore the laws of the country and the authority of the court.
At that time, even though there were dynasties and empires in name, they were not real countries but merely 'tribal alliances' that pretended to be countries!
Such so-called dynasties where sects were abundant were often mired in serious internal conflicts. The efficiency of resource collection and utilization was extremely low, and the overall mobilization ability was extremely weak. Also, as the number of Cultivators expanded, they could not escape the historical law of decline after all!
Li Yao had learned from the history books that in the middle and late periods of the ancient Cultivators forty thousand years ago, after experiencing dozens of dynasties, the ancient Cultivators in the three thousand Sectors all realized that 'Cultivation sects were the cancer of a country, and the Cultivators had to be highly organized and nationalized with iron discipline in order to make the best use of resources such as wealth, land, arts, and companions' and jump out of the swirl of rise and fall of dynasties'!
Since then, almost all the worlds of ancient Cultivators had integrated the scattered sects in different ways and embarked on the path of high centralization.
After all the sects were integrated, in the end, there was only one most enormous, most solid force left in every world of ancient Cultivators.
The names and forms of the forces might be different. Some were called dynasties, some were called empires, and some were even called 'sects' or 'sects'.
However, they were entirely different from the dynasties and sects in the past.
All the Cultivators were gathered together by laws, and their control extended all the way from the central government to the villages at the bottom level. The authority of the country and the strength of the organization overwhelmed the personal strength of the experts for the first time. Their overall control and mobilization ability were more than a hundred times higher than in the past when there were too many sects and internal conflicts!
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