However …
"The path is not going to work out after all!"
Li Yao had a lot of mixed feelings.
Han Yuantai was confident that the new generation of 'Cloud Qin' would be able to reign for thousands of years after the internal strife of the sects was eliminated.
But it was impossible.
Even under the most perfect circumstances, where the Cultivators who belonged to the 'country' were highly united without any internal conflicts and maximized the utilization of resources, there was still a fundamental problem that could not be resolved.
The problem was that the Cultivators in the classical era were basically bottomless pits that only entered but never exited. While they consumed tremendous resources, they did not produce many 'products' that were useful to society.
How many crystals, pills, and Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures did a Cultivator consume from the awakening of their spiritual root all the way to the Core Formation Stage, Yuanying, or even the Divinity Transformation Stage?
How many people, how many farmlands, and how many famous mountains and rivers did it take to provide all the crystals, pills, and Earthly Treasures?
After swallowing so many resources and training into an unparalleled expert, what could the unparalleled expert offer to society?
As far as Li Yao knew, the Cultivators in the classical era, leaving aside the evil Cultivators and devils who did evil things, even the Cultivators from the righteous sects often only paid attention to combat strength and despised any profession that could not improve their combat strength.
Even if they were 'slaying evil', getting to the bottom of it, the main product that they could provide to society was' combat strength '!
When most of the elites in a world swallowed most of the resources and the only product that they could output was' combat strength ', there would certainly be an excess of' combat strength '.
In order to make such a society walk on the path of development in a virtuous circle without being crushed by the excessive combat strength, there was only one way, which was to expand to the outside world with the 'excess combat strength' and plunder more resources!
Therefore, at the end of the age of ancient Cultivators, many Sectors in the three thousand Sectors took one step ahead of the others and completely eliminated the chaos of internal conflicts. After a high degree of centralization, their aggressiveness and combat ability soared to the maximum, and they all embarked on the path of expansion!
The historians of the Federation named the path of 'classical militarism'!
At first, this seemed to be a success.
Faced with the army of Cultivators who were as tough as iron and united by the ideology of 'nation', the 'medieval Cultivators', who were still mired in the turbulence of sects and civil strife, did not have the ability to fight back at all. They were all destroyed as easily as crushing dry weeds.
However, the good times did not last long. There was always a limit to expansion. When most of the 'medieval Cultivators' in the three thousand Sectors were annihilated, and the only ones left were the 'classical militaristic Cultivators' that were as aggressive as wolves and tigers, collisions between the strong and the strong were inevitable.
That was the era of the "first all-out civil war of the three thousand worlds" mentioned in the history books.
It was exactly at the end of the world-level civil war that swept across the three thousand Sectors that demons were created on a large scale. Then, taking advantage of the fact that the 'classical militarist worlds of Cultivators' were both heavily wounded and dying, they dominated the sea of stars and opened the prelude to the 'Great Dark Age'.
If we got to the bottom of it, the problem of the classical militarist worlds of Cultivators was that they could not resolve the contradiction of the Cultivators' 'input but not output' when it came to resources. They could only cover the contradiction with constant invasion and conquest.
However, in the process of invasion and conquest, the Cultivators' craving for 'strength' only grew stronger and stronger. When the invasion and conquest suffered setbacks, even the most magnificent military country would collapse abruptly!
The situation in the Ancient Sages Sector would only be more tragic.
It was because the star beacons and the space teleportation arrays left by the Pangu civilization in the three thousand Sectors outside were not destroyed yet. The three thousand Sectors were connected into a network, and the communication was very convenient. Even with the technological level of the ancient Cultivators, it was still possible for them to launch expeditions across the sea of stars.
Therefore, after a world of ancient Cultivators completed the transformation from 'medieval sects' to 'classical militarism', it was easy for them to launch external aggression and shift their internal contradictions!
If they were lucky enough, they could even swallow several or even dozens of underdeveloped worlds of Cultivators in hundreds of years and grow into a behemoth that spanned across the sea of stars. Their life cycle could last for thousands of years!
However, the Ancient Sages Sector was enshrouded in a thick, dark nebula, and it was barely possible to jump out.
Also, times were different now. After tens of thousands of years of war, the transportation network outside had mostly been sabotaged. It was much more difficult to launch an expedition in space!
Besides, the outside world was very dangerous. There was not a single soft persimmon in the sea of stars that could be crushed at all. Not just the monsters such as the Imperium of True Human Beings and the Alliance of the Holy Covenant, even the Xing Yao Federation a hundred years ago was not scared of the Ancient Sages Sector at all!
Even if the Ancient Sages Sector did reach the age of 'classical militarism', who could it conquer?
Without new targets to conquer, the system that quenched one's thirst with poison could not be maintained at all.
Li Yao believed in Han Yuantai's sincerity and the ambitions of Han Baling, the regent of Cloud Qin. He also believed that the Cultivators of Cloud Qin were in the best state of unity and efficient organization right now!
But it was only because they were faced with a powerful external threat and a whole world that they could conquer nonstop.
What would happen after they overthrew the Great Qian Dynasty, swept across the world, and unified the world?
If they could not find a new outlet for the 'excessive force', Li Yao did not think that the so-called 'Cloud Qin Dynasty' could survive five hundred years of the world.
This is a fundamental contradiction that cannot be resolved.
Only when the Cultivators establish the ideology of 'serving the people' and return the tremendous resources that they have swallowed to the public in various forms, including but not limited to 'force', so that the resources can flow between the Cultivators and the ordinary people incessantly. Only then can the society embark on the path of sustainable development in a virtuous cycle!
Getting to the bottom of it, the so-called 'cancer' is neither the sects nor the militaries but the Cultivators who only know how to take and do not know how to give back. They swallow resources incessantly like black holes but are of absolutely no use at all!
How many resources do the birth of a Yuanying monster consume, and how much manpower and resources are hidden behind the scenes?
"Let's not say that the Nascent Soul Stage Cultivator was overconfident in his abilities and did whatever he wanted and destroyed the existing social order.
Even if he advocates a carefree life and focuses on his own training without paying any attention to the affairs of the world and does not make any contribution to the society, wouldn't all the resources be wasted if he was killed by the apocalypse in the end of his training?
Or rather, even if he occasionally comes out to serve justice and slay evil, is the contribution proportional to the resources that he consumes?
Even if such an abnormal world of Cultivators is equipped with the armor of 'classical militarism' and evolves into a modern country, it will still be difficult for it to continue!
Cloud Qin was walking on the wrong path.
Li Yao was well aware of that.
But he did not underestimate Cloud Qin, Han Yuantai, or Han Baling, one of the Four Rapscallions who was even more heroic!
Li Yao knew himself very well.
He understood the logic not because he was smart but because he was standing on the shoulders of countless seniors and had been summarized by countless historians and sociologists.
The Cultivators of the Ancient Sages Sector did not know the first thing about the outside world. They had to accumulate all their experience and lessons on their own. They were like blind people groping in the eternal night. It was already impressive enough that they had made such progress!
Then, was it possible for Cloud Qin to cooperate?
There was a different answer to that question.
On one hand, Cloud Qin was walking on the path of 'classical militarism', which was similar to the path of 'modern militarism' of the Imperium of True Human Beings. The two parties might be able to reach an agreement immediately.
However, judging from Han Yuantai's style of speech and charisma, his brother Han Baling was also an extraordinary person who was above his time.
If such a person could be brought to the Federation and asked to study history, would he learn some lessons from the gory ending of the 'first civil war of the Cultivators' and realize that it was a dead end and walk on the opposite path?
This is really awkward.
The most critical problem right now is that the Imperium of True Human Beings, which is a troublesome factor, is involved. If the Federation does not find a way to accept the ancient Cultivators, they will definitely be attracted to the Imperium!
If I were a scout of the expedition fleet of the Imperium, after I arrived in the Ancient Sages Sector and learned about the situation here, Han Baling would certainly be the person I would choose to reach out to!
"Then …"
Is it possible that there are already Immortal Cultivators of the Imperium around Han Baling who are carrying out a certain plan in secret?
Li Yao felt that his teeth were aching. Thinking for a moment, he coughed and summoned Meng Duo and Gu Siduo, two barbarian Cultivators.
The two barbarian Cultivators, one fat and one thin, were so scared that they almost peed their pants after learning his identity as' Master Spiritual Vulture 'that they could not even stand on their feet. They simply knelt on the ground and kowtowed, begging him to spare their lives.
Naturally, Li Yao was not interested in arguing with such small fries. After all, he had been quite familiar with the two of them over the past few days. He knew that the two of them had never done anything evil, and their reputation in the Southland of Sorcerers was not bad. Therefore, he simply asked them to work as his temporary entourage.
"Summon the father and daughter surnamed Ling."
Very soon, Ling Shoujing and Ling Lanyin, who were both uneasy, showed up before Li Yao.
"Let's not waste any time."
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